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The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) has now concluded its two-day public hearing of South Africa’s legal case that charges Zionist Israel’s leaders, and their brutal-savage-racist settler-colonist project, with genocidal intent, that continues to be waged against innocent Palestinian people.

The collective pain of 75 years of unmentionable hideosity began anew during the infamous Oct 7th Last Straw military defense action taken on behalf of the Palestinians by their legally-elected Hamas protectors in Gaza; when no other Western or Middle Eastern power, beside independent paramilitary guerilla forces, like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthi, would dare to lift so much as a finger on behalf of the Palestinians.

As things now stand, the reality of the poor enforcement track record by the UN’s many General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions that already have been evoked against Zionist Israel, which its Zionist leaders and Jewish citizenry arrogantly and indifferently continue to flaunt with impunity, is blatantly obvious. The sad reality of the ICJ’s deliberations is that it will take many years yet, if ever, before its ponderously-slow, archaic, labyrinthine political process, and that of the United Nations and ICJ will ever be able to answer the legal question of Zionist Israel’s guilt or innocence in the genocidal charges that South Africa has now leveled against them.

Will All the World’s Legal Trials Ever Make Any Difference?

This one is reminded in his lifetime of the once miserably-failed results of the world’s largest anti-war/pro-peace demonstrations ever held in modern history, when an estimated 11 million citizens of every nation on the globe took to the streets in protest of the then anticipated illegal war in 2003 against Saddam Hussein, the so-called weapons of mass destruction (WMD’s), and entire countries of the Middle East themselves.

In retrospect, in light of the failed results that came for naught to prevent that war, and all the related wars that since have followed, in places like Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and now Gaza – all the murders, political assassinations, destruction to whole non-Western societies and cultures – all the citizen and legal actions taken in 2003 haven’t made a damn bit of difference to the trajectory humankind has since taken. So, in regard to the plight of the Palestinians, one shouldn’t hold their breath for any ultimate positive outcome in 2024 in Gaza and Israel. The human race still is just too primitive a species.

Meanwhile. the horrible fate of the Palestinians will only continue, unabated, to deteriorate; with the on-going military aggression of Zionist forces, aided by the military, financial, diplomatic, ideological cover of the Western world’s virtually silent, passive, weak-kneed, lily-livered American, Canadian, French, English, and Germany’s neo-conservative leaders, (Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Emmanual Macron, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz) all hopelessly-passive, along with the bulk of their silent citizenry in tow, under the immoral leadership of President ‘Genocidal Joe’ Biden; a self-declared ‘Zionist’ himself, and sound supporter of an AIPAC-riddled Zionist U.S. House of Representatives, and dumbed-down populace, along with the United States ultimate trump card of a Veto in the UN Security Council and, perhaps, even more ultimate future “Trump’ card in the White House that will spin everything even harder towards the fascist right.

History Repeating Its Sordid Self Again in the 21st Century

Once again, the whole scene of the world’s dismal geo-political tip again towards authoritarian ‘Strong Man’ fascism is a déjà vu repeat of early 20 century history, with the same abject appeasement shown by Western and Eastern powers towards Yetanyahu’s Hitler-like rise to ruthless power. If nothing dramatic is done to stop him, and soon, it’s another: Here goes the world again down the rabbit hole together in Gaza.

Will the UN and ICJ be Able to Counter This New Fascist Threat

The only immediate help the ICJ may be able to provide, because it doesn’t have any ultimate military army at its disposal or powers of enforcement, other than to undertake provisional measures to try to immediately stop the savage slaughter of innocent Palestinians by the Zionists forces. 

But one only has to consider how many years it took the world’s powers to finally mobilize against Nazi Germany’s similar attacks against the Jews and Hitler’s desire for world expansion and conquest. By the time the whole world had mobilized back then, and marshalled its forces, many more millions of innocents needlessly had to die. Before that happens, many more innocent Palestinians, unfortunately, may have to die because of humankind’s ignorance and stupidity.

The antecedents of this non-stop genocidal intent by Zionist Israel’s political and military forces to wipe out all of the Palestinians, in truth of fact, goes back to the original ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocidal intent that began to be pressed in earnest in 1948 with Zionist Israel’s forced removal of over a million helpless, innocent Palestinians, and total obliteration of over 400 of their towns, villages, neighborhoods, even all the historic place names of their streets, natural sites, historic landmarks, and, of course, humanity’s collective memory of a softer, more peaceful, Palestine world of amicable colloquy that once was. 

This intolerable outrage back in 1948 against humanity, that the United Nation, was guilty of due to sheer ignorance and neglect of its mandated duties to protect them, came to be known as the First Nakba Catastrophe perpetrated by Zionist Israel against over one million helpless, innocent Palestinians. The same thing has since followed in 2023, in Gaza, following the ‘Last Straw’ military actions taken by Hamas that has so infuriated Israel’s vengeful Zionists that they now have decided that their own fascist Final Solution will require perpetrating however more vengeful, savage ‘Nakba Catastrophe’s’ than all the catastrophe’s that have ever come before.

There Will be No Two-State Solution Whatsoever

The Zionist Israel’s leader Bibi Netanyahu, the Knesset and their rabid followers have made it clear they never ever will tolerate a Two State Solution. Even if the United Nations could work out some conceivable partition scheme between the two states, Israel would have to agree to give up a certain degree of Ersatz Israel’s entire stolen real estate and all the infrastructure it has developed in the Occupied Territories of Palestine since 1948. That would only seem conceivable if the world was once again willing to go to an all-out world war against Israel and its allies, as it did against Nazi Germany and its Axis Powers, 

Imagine for a moment, if all the Old World Powers who originally invaded the New World and massacred or displaced all its original inhabitants so they could take possession of their ‘homelands’ for themselves, if they would be willing to give back any part of the lands, natural resources, new societal infrastructure to the original inhabitants.

To begin with, Israel’s dyed-in-the-wool main ally – the United States – together with Israel’s military might would seem to be an almost insurmountable challenge to overcome; even if the rest of the entire world collectively mounted the most unbelievable military force against them. 

And yet, the world is now faced with exactly those imponderable existential choices between choosing between a world of the future, predicated upon humankind’s ever-evolving higher ideals and concepts, such as: Democracy, Freedom, Equality for all men and women of humankind, or; revert back, forever more, to some even more ghastly form of Homo sapien’s original primitive philosophy of “Might Makes Right” and “Brute Power Rules”; which, with the constant evolution of weaponry and high-tech methods of killing, will only inevitably lead to one ultimate conclusion for the species.

Revelations of the ICJ Findings of Genocide

Chilling testimonials made to the ICJ about the fate of the Palestinian people, uttered by everyone from Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, its Ministers of Defense, National Security, Military Intelligence, Energy and Infrastructure and so many others within Israel’s Zionist government, were heard of Israel finding ever more diabolical new ways to treat Gaza, Hamas and Palestinian men, women, especially pregnant women, children, and infants, equally, as if they all were one and the same; equally guilty of being nothing more than terrorist enemies, likened to those of ISIS, or wild human animals, who must all be destroyed in ever more diabolically-cunning ways; more painful than those of even the perpetual fires of Hell or Death itself; obliterated as if by a nuclear bomb, so nothing remains as even a reminder to those who come after, of who they once were. 

This was followed by Israel’s disavowal of South Africa’s charges. Yet, the $64,000 dollar question remains unanswered, “Will the UN’s ICJ, Security Council and General Assembly significantly address: the plight of the actual lives and welfare of the Palestinian people, and; bring about a genuine ceasing of the military slaughter by Israel’s Zionist military forces on-going, methodical, on-going, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, genocidal policies towards the Palestinian people in Occupied Palestine? Especially when the U.S. possesses the Unholy Veto? Or are they simply to be thrown to the wolves?”

The hope is that the world will listen in time to so many good voices who exist out there everywhere in the universe, who are desperately trying in every which way they can, to speak truth to power in their hope-against-hope that their words of wisdom will finally reach the higher minds and principles of the world in time.

Words That Speak Truth to Power

The reader is called upon to take the time to educate themselves as much as they can, and spread their new understandings of what all is going on at this time and place in the history of the world, to come to bear, in the hope that they will make a difference to Israel and all its allies to avert this tragedy of humankind. 

Peruse the brief library provided below of some of those wisdoms. Tariq Ramadan’s reflections: on his own personal life, and: that of Gaza; and; the future of Islam in the West, are among this writer’s personal favorite, humanistic insights on the War in Gaza and Life in general.

A Final Thought

A traditional way to begin and end a greeting with a Muslim to show one’s respect, is to say, “Peace Be With You” Spoken in the Muslim’s mother tongue, IT goes, “As-Salem-u-Alaikum” (As-saa-laam-muu-ah-lay-kum”)

Another form of greeting, if one so chooses to use the even longer, more respectful greeting that means “Peace Be Unto You, and So May the Mercy of Allah and His Blessings”, goes (As-saa-laam-muu-alie-kum, waa-rah-ma-tull-taa-laa-hee-wa-bara-kaa-tu-hu.”)

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The writer Jerome Irwin is a Canadian-American writer who originally was a Criminology student working in one of America’s local police departments. For decades, Irwin has sought to call world attention to problems of environmental degradation and unsustainability caused by a host of environmental-ecological-spiritual issues that exist between the conflicting world philosophies of indigenous and non-indigenous peoples.

Irwin is the author of the book, “The Wild Gentle Ones; A Turtle Island Odyssey” (www.turtle-island-odyssey.com), a spiritual odyssey among the native peoples of North America that has led to numerous articles pertaining to: Ireland’s Fenian Movement; native peoples Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Movement; AIPAC, Israel & the U.S. Congress anti-BDS Movement; the historic Battle for Palestine & Siege of Gaza, as well as; the many violations constantly being waged by industrial-corporate-military-propaganda interests against the World’s Collective Soul. The author and his wife are long-time residents on the North Shore of British Columbia.

He is a regular contributor to Global Research.

Featured image: Israeli troops resting against Jerusalem’s Holy Wailing Wall during 1967 six-day war that tripled the expansion of Zionist Israel’s illegal occupation of Historic Palestine’s West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip