A federal court in California has ruled that Israel’s military campaign in Gaza “plausibly” amounts to genocide, but dismissed a case aimed at stopping US military support for Israel as being outside the court’s jurisdiction.
“There are rare cases in which the preferred outcome is inaccessible to the court. This is one of those cases,” the US district court in the northern district of California ruled. “The court is bound by precedent and the division of our coordinate branches of government to abstain from exercising jurisdiction in this matter.
“Yet, as the ICJ [the international court of justice] has found, it is plausible that Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide,” the judge in the case, Jeffrey White, said in his ruling, in a case brought by Palestinian human rights groups and individual Palestinians against President Joe Biden, Antony Blinken, the secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary.
“We didn’t say we were committing genocide, we said we were just killing everyone. Is that hard to understand?” 🤷
Hey, let’s be fair, they are amenable to just destroying all the civilian infrastructure… which is also genocide, in order to expel the Palestinians… which is also genocide. They are literally going from a) to d) of the acts that constitute genocide according to the article II of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and confirming intention live on TV.