ICJ GENOCIDE CASE - ISRAEL: "THIS IS A WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

"Genocide. As the applicant has now sought to invoke this term in the context of Israel's conduct in a war, it did not start and did not want a war in which Israel is defending itself against Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other terrorist organizations whose brutality knows no bounds.

The civilian suffering in this war, like in all wars, is tragic.

It is heartbreaking for harsh realities of the current hostilities are made especially agonizing for civilians, given Hamas has reprehensible strategy of seeking to maximize civilian harm to both Israelis and Palestinians. Even as Israel seeks to minimize it."

"Sweeping counterfactual description of the Israeli Palestinian conflict, it seemed to erase both Jewish history and any Palestinian agency or responsibility. Indeed, the delegitimization of Israel since its very establishment in 1948.

In the applicants submissions, sounded barely distinguishable from Hamas, his own rejectionist rhetoric. It is unsurprising, therefore, that in the applicants telling both Hamas has responsibility for the situation in Gaza, and the very humanity of it Israeli victims are removed from view.

The attempt to weaponize the term genocide against Israel, in the present context, does more than tell the court a grossly distorted story.

And it does more than empty the word of its unique force and special meaning. It subverts the object and purpose of the convention itself, with ramifications for all states, seeking to defend themselves against those who demonstrate total disdain for life and for the law."

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