Israeli Anti-terrorism: The Mother of all Genocidal Wars

By Michael Welch, Robert Inlakesh, Dr. Paul Larudee, Dimitri Lascaris, and Calvin Larudee
Global Research, January 13, 2024
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“The Israel-Gaza war is the most dangerous situation for journalists we have ever seen, and these figures show that clearly…The Israeli army has killed more journalists in 10 weeks than any other army or entity has in any single year. And with every journalist killed, the war becomes harder to document and to understand.”

– Sherif Mansour, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ’s) Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. [1]

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Operation Cast Lead, launched in December of 2008, claimed lives in the range of between 1,166 and 1,324 Palestinians. It was considered “the most destructive Israeli assault since the Six Day War (of 1967.)”[2][3][4]

The Israel-Gaza war, in response to the October 7 attack by Palestine-Islamists in neighbouring Israel, has, as of this date killed over 23,000 Palestinians, two thirds of whom are women and children. [5]

And according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, as of January 12, 82 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead as a result of the war. The CPJ records indicate this is more journalist deaths than have died in any one country within one country ever! [6][7]

So this moment in time is a major, major event!

In the last days of 2023, South Africa asked the International Court of Justice for an urgent order declaring Israel to be in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention.[8]

Several countries, including Malaysia, Turkey, Jordan, and the 57 member bloc making up the Organization of IsIamic Countries support South Africa’s Genocide call. The United States and Israel opposed it. Most of the countries in the West, including the European Union are silent on targeting Israel with genocide, even though most of these same countries supported genocide case at the ICJ of Russia. [9][10]

The events unfolding on the Palestinian population at the blood-soaked hands of Israel is evident for everyone to see. Will it continue to escalate through all the cries of NEVER AGAIN? This is the question looming for the loyal listeners of the Global Research News Hour.

In our first half hour, we hear from lawyer, journalist and activist Dimitri Lascaris. He has been following the situation in Gaza and was present on the ground in Lebanon in late October. He will assess the evidence the was will expand into a much greater regional war, and also describe the legal aspects of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel.

In our second half hour, two individual Global Research writers, Paul and Calvin Larudee discuss their doubts about the ICJ on the grounds the decisions are more political than legal.

Finally, Robert Inlakesh, a journalist and film-maker with extended family in Gaza returns to the show to reveal the research he has done and bring us more information than what the mainstream Western press is inclined to reveal.

Dimitri Lascaris is a lawyer, a journalist and an activist. From 2004 to 2016 he was a member of Canada’s leading class action law firm Siskinds LLP. He now works pro-bono legal cases. In 2020, he ran for the leadership of the Green Party of Canada and placed second with  45.5% of the membership. 

Paul Larudee is a retired academic and current administrator of a nonprofit human rights and humanitarian aid organization.

Calvin Larudee, Paul’s grandson, is a high school student in Castro Valley, California. He provides international weekly news summaries and analysis at International Informants, to which subscribers are welcome.

Robert Inlakesh is a political analyst, journalist and documentary filmmaker currently based in London, UK. He has reported from and lived in the occupied Palestinian territories and hosts the show ‘Palestine Files’. Director of ‘Steal of the Century: Trump’s Palestine-Israel Catastrophe’. Follow him on Twitter @falasteen47

(Global Research News Hour Episode 417)

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Notes:

  1. https://cpj.org/2023/12/israel-gaza-war-takes-record-toll-on-journalists/
  2. Yaakov Lappin (March 26, 2009), ‘IDF releases Cast Lead casualty numbers’, The Jerusalem Post; https://web.archive.org/web/20110511121653/http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727552054&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
  3. Khan Younis (January 22, 2009), ‘Rights Group Puts Gaza Death Toll At 1,284’, CBS News; https://web.archive.org/web/20090125220045/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/22/world/main4746224.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_4746224
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20140306075708/http://www.map-uk.org/news/media-room/witness.aspx
  5. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2024/01/israel-occupied-palestinian-territory-situation-100-days
  6. https://cpj.org/2024/01/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/
  7. https://cpj.org/2023/12/israel-gaza-war-takes-record-toll-on-journalists/
  8. https://www.newarab.com/news/who-representing-israel-s-africa-gaza-genocide-case
  9. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/9/which-countries-back-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-at-icj
  10. https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/australia-must-support-south-africa-international-court-justice-case-against-israel/5631862

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