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U.N. Condemns U.S. for Protecting Israel’s Gaza Genocide

1 November 2024, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Tragically, however, this condemnation was only implicit — not courageous, not explicit. Here are the details:

The fully authorized U.N. chief investigator into what Israel is doing in Gaza, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, held a press conference on October 31st, to introduce her latest report. She unequivocally called what Israel is doing there a “genocide,” and said that the countries whose Governments are assisting this genocide (chief of which is the U.S., which has donated $18 billion in weapons for Israel to be able to do it and to continue doing it) are accompices to this genocide. She was, however, ambivalent about the 7 October 2023 attack by Gazans into Israel (which Israel and its allies cite as being the ‘justification’ for what Israel now is doing in Gaza), both condemning it, and, at 15:03 in her video presentation, saying that, “After 9/11, there is an increasing intolerance for people’s claims for self-determination, and we are no longer in the decolonization era when the right to resist [against the imperialist] was to an extent even celebrated [she mentioned Mandela in this context]; we are [now] in an era when resistance is often seen and labelled as terrorism.” (In other words: according to this new line, Israel is slaughtering “terrorists” not individuals who have a right to be there.) If Palestinians have a right to resist Israel’s armed occupation of their lands — both the West Bank and Gaza — then they have a self-defense right to kill Israelis, and yet both Israel and its allies claim that this is not so, and they even allege that when the Palestinians on October 7th of 2023 slaughtered around 1,200 Israelis, that act justifies anything (up to and including genocide) against all Gazans, as being ‘self-defense’ by Israel, not “genocide.”

Her formal report on 1 October 2024 to the U.N.’s General Assembly was titled “Genocide as colonial erasure”. Its “Summary” said “The violence that Israel has unleashed against the Palestinians post-7 October is not happening in a vacuum, but is part of a long-term intentional, systematic, Stateorganized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians. This trajectory risks causing irreparable prejudice to the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine. Member States must intervene now to prevent new atrocities that will further scar human history.” Early in her report, she noted: “Two important legal developments informed the present report. First, in its Advisory Opinion of July 2024, ICJ [International Court of Justice] declared the prolonged presence of Israel in the whole of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including its colony regime,4 as unlawful5 and aimed at annexation.6 It stated that Israeli annexation was designed to be permanent, creating ‘irreversible effects on the ground’,7 ‘undermin[ing] the integrity of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’8 and seeking to ‘acquire sovereignty over an occupied territory’.9”

Furthermore: “The Court recognized the violation of non-derogable norms prohibiting territorial acquisition by force,10 racial segregation and apartheid,11 and protecting the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people,12 concluding that the occupation constitutes an act of aggression, in all but name, deriving in part from its settlercolonial nature.13 It stressed the obligation to rapidly end the occupation, dismantle and evacuate the colonies, provide full reparation to Palestinian victims and allow the return of Palestinians displaced since 1967.14”

Section three of the report was titled “III. The unfolding genocide as a ‘means to an end’.” It noted that: “In August 2024, the Finance Minister of Israel, Bezalel Smotrich, stated that starving the entire Gaza population was ‘justified and moral’, even if 2 million people consequently died.93 In recent months, 83 per cent of food aid was prevented from entering Gaza,94 and the civilian police in Rafah were repeatedly targeted, impairing distribution.95 At least 34 deaths from malnutrition were recorded by 14 September 2024.96 At the time of writing, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was evaluating a plan to block all food supplies to northern Gaza97 proposed by adviser Giora Eiland,98 who previously endorsed introducing epidemics as a military tactic.99 The killing of civilian police and clan leadership providing security for food distribution further compounded the crisis across Gaza.100 Starvation and deprivation tactics in the north have been particularly egregious.101”

She also noted that: “On 27 August 2024, Israeli forces launched operation ‘Summer Camps’ against Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tubas and Tulkarem, fulfilling the promise to treat the West Bank like Gaza.137 For days on end, thousands were placed under curfew, without food or water.138 Israeli forces targeted ambulances, blocked entrances to hospitals and laid siege to Jenin Hospital.139 Bulldozers destroyed streets and electricity and public health infrastructure.140 Hundreds lost their homes and property; 141 more than 1,000 families in Jenin were displaced.142 Thirty-six were killed, including eight children.143 Targeted attacks on the health sector have been replicated in the West Bank. Medical workers and infrastructure were attacked 538 times, killing 23 people and injuring 100 and damaging 54 medical facilities, 20 mobile clinics and 374 ambulances,144 while critical medical care was impeded.145 Permits for Palestinians to access medical care outside the West Bank sharply declined.146 On 29 May 2024, governance of the West Bank was officially transferred from military to civilian authorities – furthering de jure annexation – and placed under Bezalel Smotrich, a committed Eretz Yisrael politician.147 The largest single land appropriation in 30 years was then approved.148”

Here is from a sub sub-section that deals with lies by Israel and its allies about what is happening and why:

C. Totality of the conduct: genocidal intent rationalized as self-defence 

In the face of such wholesale destruction, the stated goals of Israel, accepted by some States, remain “to eradicate Hamas”241 and “bring the hostages home”. 242 Neither of these goals, or motives, preclude a finding of genocidal intent as the only reasonable inference to be drawn. Instead, both motives, together and disjunctively, substantiate the genocidal intent.

Whatever the already highly discredited International Criminal Court (ICC) will formally rule regarding South Africa’s legal case that Israel is committing genocide there, the U.N.’s own authorized expert on the matter is already clear that it is genocide in action and intent, and that it has foreign nations that are accomplices.

The report continues:

Accountability for genocide cannot be limited to criminal responsibility of individuals, who are to be judged in criminal trials with due process guarantees. It would be a tragic paradox if the rights of victims were subordinated to the guarantees afforded to alleged perpetrators and their Governments.281 Furthermore, the responsibility of the State must be assessed in its own right. The moment one genocidal act occurs and the special intent manifests, this signals that genocide is taking place. This is the moment to intervene – early intervention being the only way to prevent more atrocities that will scar human history.

However, her “Conclusions” and “Recommendations” inexplicably avoided addressing any culpability for Israel’s accomplices. Only Israel and its leaders are to be concerned — none of the U.S. and other leaders who have continued to supply Israel with the means to do this. There is only this that she says regarding that matter:

As the ICC Prosecutor has warned, “if we do not demonstrate our willingness to apply the law equally, if it is seen as applied selectively, we will be creating the conditions of its complete collapse. This is the true risk we face at this perilous moment.”

That word “selectively” is the key there: the ICC’s credibility will suffer “complete collapse” unless not ONLY Israel’s leaders but those in the U.S. and other Israel-allied nations that pushed for and got their taxpayers implicated as being funders of this genocide, will be prosecuted. Principal among those would be Joe Biden.

At 1:47 in the October 31st video presentation, she said: “I can say that for over one year I’ve pleaded all concerned to all concerned parties, uh, particularly those States who can exert more influence on the State of Israel to take concrete actions to stop the destruction of Gaza …” as-if “influence” were involved here and not simply the supplying to Israel of the physical means, the weaponry and satellite intelligence that are essential to perpetrating it, which are actually ENABLING Israel to do this.

At 11:29, a journalist asked, “My other question is regarding a third party role in the war that’s going on, whether it has to do with delivering weapons, uh, I mean their responsibility … accountability for not only Israel but also for third parties.” Ms. Albanese replied by wandering around on other topics for ten minutes and apparently thought that she should now take another question, but then at 21:55 the questioner reminded her that this question had been ignored; and then Albanese wandered more through international human-rights law, and reparations, and then suddenly she again closed her response simply by saying, at 23:32, “Member States continue to trade with Israel and to transfer weapons,” at which point, a different questioner was called.

If I could, I’d fire her and any other such U.N. official who likewise won’t so much as even just CONSIDER that the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for this genocide.

Our time is the end of the pinnacle of the U.S. Government’s imperial power as being the lone superpower, that’s over; but for how much longer can this Government stand above international law, instead of — like every nation MUST be — subject to it? Perhaps Ms. Albanese hasn’t yet gotten the message. Of course, that is no excuse, but it might be the explanation for her embarrassing performance there.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.