{"id":252755,"date":"2024-01-29T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=252755"},"modified":"2024-01-24T03:43:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T03:43:18","slug":"in-gaza-the-west-is-enabling-the-most-transparent-genocide-in-human-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/in-gaza-the-west-is-enabling-the-most-transparent-genocide-in-human-history\/","title":{"rendered":"In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground and lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Minister of Justice and Correctional Services of South Africa Ronald Lamola answers the questions of press members related to the public hearings of South Africa\u2019s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, on January 11, 2024.
(Photo: Dursun Aydemir\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n

17 Jan 2024<\/em> – Recall Samuel Huntington\u2019s controversial, yet influential, 1993 Foreign Affairs<\/em> article, \u201cThe Clash of Civilizations,\u201d which ends with the provocative phrase, \u201cThe West against the rest.\u201d Although the article seemed far-fetched 30 years ago, it now seems prophetic in its discernment of a post-Cold War pattern of inter-civilizational rivalry. It is rather pronounced in relation to the heightened Israel\/Palestine conflict initiated by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israeli territory with the killing and abusing of Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers, as well as the seizure of some 200 hostages.<\/p>\n

Clearly this attack has been accompanied by some suspicious circumstances such as Israel\u2019s foreknowledge, slow reaction time to the penetration of its borders, and, perhaps most problematic, the quickness with which Israeli adopted a genocidal approach with a clear ethnic cleansing message. At the very least the Hamas attack, itself including serious war crimes, served almost too conveniently as the needed pretext for the 100 days of disproportionate and indiscriminate violence, sadistic atrocities, and the enactment of a scenario that looked toward making Gaza unlivable and its Palestinian residents dispossessed and unwanted.<\/p>\n

Despite the transparency of the Israeli tactics, partly attributable to ongoing TV coverage of the devastating and heartbreaking Palestinian ordeal, what was notable was the way external state actors aligned with the antagonists. The Global West (white settler colonial states and former European colonial powers) lined up with Israel, while the most active pro-Palestinian governments and movements were initially exclusively Muslim, with support coming more broadly from the Global South. This racialization of alignments seems to take precedence over efforts to regulate violence of this intensity by the norms and procedures of international law, often mediated through the United Nations.<\/p>\n

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