RE: Posted by: Alchemist | Jan 10 2024 17:14 utc | 3
Dang! Really good, helpful & thorough list. Thx.🍻

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 10 2024 17:23 utc | 4

aljazeera tonight inside story is about the case for genocide.

Posted by: Jo | Jan 10 2024 17:33 utc | 6

RE: Posted by: jayc | Jan 10 2024 17:24 utc | 5
“Israel will face a new foe on a new front this week…”
Yep. The ICJ.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 10 2024 17:34 utc | 8

More Bullshit from the Bullshit poster. Only the Zionists have publicly advocated for Genocide as their plan/project. And it’s been that way–and admitted as such–since the outset prior to 1948 and after that by the terrorists of that age. It’s all there in the public record so there’s no denying those facts.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 10 2024 17:39 utc | 10

Posted by: Keshe Vuger | Jan 10 2024 17:40 utc | 11
So sad for the US taxpayers…spending over $5m per to shoot down $10k drones and missiles.

Posted by: hedlykarok | Jan 10 2024 17:51 utc | 12

Envision loving angels as beautiful white kites around the world, bearing witness and radiating love back to us on our exquisite blue marble, Earth. 🙂 — For Refaat

Posted by: titmouse | Jan 10 2024 17:54 utc | 14

“Over the past 90 days, we witnessed a high humanitarian cost, which is what led us to stand alongside Israel.”
Too bad Blinken and his staff aren’t part of that “cost.”
Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 10 2024 17:35 utc | 9
But they are. They have lost their humanity.

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 10 2024 17:58 utc | 16

@ Keshe Vuger | Jan 10 2024 17:40 utc | 11 with the tweet about the latest Houthi efforts…thanks
ZH has a posting title up about the Houthi latest
US Warship Directly Targeted In ‘Largest Ever’ Houthi Red Sea Missile Attack
The quotes

An initial military statement had called the Tuesday 9:15pm (local) assault a “complex attack” conducted by the Iran-aligned militants, which occurred off the Yemeni port cities of Hodeida and Mokha. CENTCOM tallied that it involved 18 one-way attack drones, two anti-ship cruise missiles and an anti-ship ballistic missile, according to the statement.
…
The Houthis, a Shiite group that has held Yemen’s capital of Sanaa since 2014, later claimed responsibility for the attack in a televised statement by rebel spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree. Saree claimed the attack “targeted an American ship that was providing support to the Zionist entity,” without offering any further information. He also described it as an “initial response” to American troops sinking Houthi vessels and killing 10 rebel fighters last week.
…
A @RoyalNavy warship @hmsdiamond shot down 7 drones launched by Iranian-backed Houthi militants in the Red Sea on Tuesday night in an operation with US forces to repel the largest drone and missile attack to date.

Go Houthi!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 10 2024 18:00 utc | 18

According to recent postings on Rense both Nicaragua and Venezuela are backstopping South Africa in the world Court affair. Though the judges, et al have been carefully selected by the Collective Waste; these news items will seep into the consciousness of those who keep track of events. Thus, the actual value of the hearings are mainly in the realm of international public opinion.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 10 2024 18:05 utc | 20

Honzo @1757
Good take on Houthis being “polite”. Looks like the old frog-boiling technique is catching on all across the planet. Another term would be “death of a thousand cuts”. Imagine the frazzled nerves of those Murrikkkan and British sailors. Captains and Execs of those vessels may be crossing their fingers that they not get confronted by heavy swarms.
Psychological effects are mounting.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 10 2024 18:08 utc | 22

Israel worried about the genocide case.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/09/israel-terrified-of-genocide-case-at-the-world-court/

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2024 18:20 utc | 24

Looking closer at Kaltura I’m worried there will be no public/3rd party recordings of the ICJ stream and it seems very unlikely any downloads will be available from the ICJ or the UN. Thus the video streams will “disappear” and/or only edited versions or short snippets will appear.
Just a fair warning of what to expect.
I realize it’s only preliminary hearings from South Africa and Israel but we all know how these kinds of things commonly later end up edited and misused as or in propaganda.
If I had sufficient (video) screen capture ability I would use it (but I don’t). In the press release it said both of the hearings (one each on Thursday and Friday) will last two hours.
Or maybe none of it will matter at all (one can only tell afterwards).

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 10 2024 18:30 utc | 26

Posted by: Exile | Jan 10 2024 17:10 utc | 2
Thank you note: Jan 11-12, 2024 at the Hague
THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case South Africa v. Israel – Oral argument of South Africa
THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case South Africa v. Israel – Oral argument of Israel

Posted by: sln2002 | Jan 10 2024 18:36 utc | 28

Posted by: Exile | Jan 10 2024 17:10 utc | 2
A wonderful idea, I just opened that link in a new tab.
https://webtv.un.org/en/full-live-schedule
From page 2:

Thu 11 Jan
4:00am – 7:00am
THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case South Africa v. Israel
OrganizerInternational Court of Justice (ICJ)/Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ)
WherePeace Palace, The Hague, the Netherlands
On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January 2024, the International Court of Justice will hold public hearings at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court, in the proceedings instituted by South Africa against Israel on 29 December 2023.
Le jeudi 11 et le vendredi 12 janvier 2024, la Cour internationale de Justice tiendra des audiences publiques au Palais de la Paix, à La Haye, où elle a son siège, dans l’instance introduite par l’Afrique du Sud contre Israël le 29 décembre 2023.

Posted by: Babel-17 | Jan 10 2024 18:50 utc | 30

“What should the State do when dealing with such an enemy ?”
Next time make sure the land really is empty. Go home.

Posted by: David G Horsman | Jan 10 2024 18:54 utc | 32

Posted by: Exile | Jan 10 2024 17:10 utc | 2
A wonderful idea, thank you. I just opened that link in a new tab.
https://webtv.un.org/en/full-live-schedule
From page 2:

Thu 11 Jan
4:00am – 7:00am
THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the case South Africa v. Israel
OrganizerInternational Court of Justice (ICJ)/Cour internationale de Justice (CIJ)
WherePeace Palace, The Hague, the Netherlands
On Thursday 11 and Friday 12 January 2024, the International Court of Justice will hold public hearings at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court, in the proceedings instituted by South Africa against Israel on 29 December 2023.
Le jeudi 11 et le vendredi 12 janvier 2024, la Cour internationale de Justice tiendra des audiences publiques au Palais de la Paix, à La Haye, où elle a son siège, dans l’instance introduite par l’Afrique du Sud contre Israël le 29 décembre 2023.

Link to short video summarizing some of what to expect.
https://youtu.be/N1iWA7B1Rw0?si=LcGeg_gK3vIawJzu

Posted by: Babel-17 | Jan 10 2024 18:57 utc | 34

The “GPT” in ChatGPT stands for “Generative Pre-trained Transformer” (and calling it “AI” is being generous, lol)
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2024 18:03 utc | 19

Thanks for that.
The latest AI hype is bollocks and will quietly go away just like the much vaunted self-driving car.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Jan 10 2024 19:16 utc | 36

Posted by: robin | Jan 10 2024 18:56 utc | 33
Even if he was, they’d be essentially useless, unless he also has illegal access to ISP databases or subpoena powers and/or was planning to launch essentially random DDOS attacks on MoA readers.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2024 19:25 utc | 38

I am crossing my fingers on this whole ICJ business. Call me jaded but I have seen so many disappointing results when I thought for sure something bad (judicial) would happen to the dirty, rotten and evil fuques in DC and City of London. I am hoping to god but it might be just another wild goose chase.

Posted by: bisfugged | Jan 10 2024 19:43 utc | 40

Tomorrow, January 11, 2024, South Africa presents its oral argument that Israel is practicing genocide in Gaza at the Court of International Justice in the Hague, from 9:30/10:00 o’ clock European Time (3:30 EST, probably streamed for later viewing). Let’s see what DC and the media make of the whole thing? Or will they ignore it? Search webtv.un.org/en/schedule/2024-01-11

Posted by: Quentin | Jan 10 2024 19:51 utc | 42

HMS Diamond is part of the US-UK destroyer squadron in the Red Sea. On Tuesday night the squadron was attacked by a swarm of 21 drones and missiles launched by Houthis. Seven of the drones headed towards the HMS Diamond which fired its Sea Viper air defense missiles, which proved to be no match for the inexpensive propeller driven drones. The Diamond had a close call and had to use its guns to shoot down drones.
“It is unclear which ‘guns’ the HMS Diamond used to destroy these attack drones. However, the ship is equipped with a pair of Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CWIS) guns and a 4.5-inch caliber deck gun. The CWIS is considered a weapon of last resort, with an effective range measured in yards, not miles. Destroyers typically maintain a distance of at least a mile from merchant ships, so the CWIS would only be useful if the warship was in the line of fire or targeted itself.” https://gcaptain.com/greyhound-day-naval-combat-red-sea/
Imagine what happens if the Diamond faces an even larger swarm with anti-ship missiles mixed in? The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are performing a lot better than their British counterpart.

Posted by: britishnavysubpar | Jan 10 2024 20:00 utc | 44

I’m sure the ICJ judges are in a state of panic right about now, desperately seeking, individually and severally, some face-saving pretext for dismissing the South African case. One almost feels sorry for them.
But I repeat: almost.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 10 2024 20:04 utc | 46

Further, any judge that finds against Israel – unless serving a lifetime appointment – will see their career suddenly take a turn for the worse when up for the next appointment or promotion. I bet the same holds for the judges in front of whom Julian Assange has stood over the past 5 years. The other thing is, finding against Assange and for Israel may also be very lucrative, if you know what I’m saying.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2024 20:11 utc | 48

The other thing is, finding against Assange and for Israel may also be very lucrative, if you know what I’m saying.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2024 20:11 utc | 48
____
The supply of underage girls (and no doubt the occasional boy) didn’t exhaust itself with Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide”.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 10 2024 20:15 utc | 50

Quentin:
“Later viewing” is very doubtful and highly unlikely unless you or someone else can show full length examples (such as two hours long) of live streams from previous ICJ public hearings.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jan 10 2024 20:20 utc | 52

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Posted by: canuck | Jan 10 2024 18:26 utc | 25
I don’t think Blinken ever had a soul. conscience neither.
Perfect sociopath.

Posted by: MAKK | Jan 10 2024 20:33 utc | 54

Posted by: golddigger | Jan 10 2024 20:18 utc | 51
The newest Standard Missile 6 costs $10 million a piece and are supposed to intercept hypersonics. USN doesn’t have many SM-6 missiles. If a destroyer runs out of Standard Missile 2, the first choice for air defense against drones, is the procedure to turn to point defense missles or the deck gun before using a precious SM-6?

Posted by: britishnavysubpar | Jan 10 2024 20:36 utc | 56

Here’s a curveball, from Pepe Escobar’s TG, the mindfucks never end, discuss at will:
WALK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN – AT GUNPOINT
This is extremely explosive.
Unconfirmed. Pure shadowplay. Comes from a Persian Gulf source.
The CIA may be – intentionally or otherwise – allied with the Houthis when it comes to the closure, for all practical purposes, of the Suez Canal.
That translates into financially pressuring Egypt to accept the 2.3 million population of Gaza, complete with a Mafioso “incentive” of $10 billion.
Crucially, the Hegemon has not taken any significant action against the Houthis – apart from the largely rhetorical Operation Protect Genocide.
Cairo has firmly refused to accept the Israeli-engineered Palestinian Exodus.
Yet the pressure is relentless. Memos have been sent to Egyptian advisers reminding them of their ultra-precarious financial situation.
What the source does not consider is that Egypt is now an official BRICS 10 member.
Russia-China, shadowplay style, must have made their moves to assure Cairo they’ve got their back
https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/9604

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 10 2024 20:45 utc | 58

: britishnavysubpar | Jan 10 2024 20:36 utc | 56
A ships captain would have to be mad to let a swarm of missiles or drones get close enough to the ship to use Close in short range defense. The threat would have been taken care of a longer ranges using whatever missile defense at their disposal. Close in defense is for a last resort.
The link in my post reflects older 2021 data. Prices are higher now for the missiles now. I linked it to back up my point of how much the USN is spending to take out very cheap drones.
The US is doing a very dangerous thing. All that needs to happen now is a missile getting thru and damaging a warship. That would show weakness. Commercial shipping in the Read Sea would come to stop.

Posted by: golddigger | Jan 10 2024 20:59 utc | 60

Weeb Union claims …
Gaza City FREE: Israel Withdrwas From Gaza City
https://youtu.be/EF9T-m8nP0E

Posted by: Babel-17 | Jan 10 2024 21:39 utc | 62

Less than 24 hours before the ICJ hearings and for the first time, Israel’s Netanyahu speaks in English claiming that he doesn’t seek to expel Palestinians from Gaza.
“Israel has no intention of permanently occupying Gaza or displacing its civilian population. Israel is fighting Hamas terrorists, not the Palestinian population, and we are doing so in full compliance with international law”, he claimed
Now let’s put this bs up against his previous statements and those of his likud over the last few days.
Israeli MP Nissim Vaturi in press remarks: “Gaza and its people must be burned, I have no pity for them.”

Posted by: Hankster | Jan 10 2024 21:44 utc | 64

Is there a list of nations supporting SA IJC case? I did hear 57 but I’m only reading individual nations saying they support it. Not sure if support means they just announce this or actually signing on to be co petitioner

Posted by: Hankster | Jan 10 2024 21:56 utc | 66

Trubind1 | Jan 10 2024 21:42 utc | 63
Better to read Escobar over a longer time frame. By far the best big picture journalist when it comes to Asia/Eurasia.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 10 2024 21:58 utc | 68

golddigger | Jan 10 2024 20:59 utc | 60–
As I noted when Ansarallah first began its shipping interdiction operation, all the needs to be done is to send wave after wave of drones against any warship to deplete its defenses then send in the killer attack. Red Sea deployed vessels would likely head for Qatar since that would take them away from harm while steaming to Suez would keep it in range most of the way. Once upon a time, the USN deployed Task Forces consisting of numerous screening vessels to defeat air attacks. Now USN deploys only a few vessels together or just sends one solo whereby there’s no mutual support. If you have 5 DDGs together facing a drone assault, they collectively use less ammo to defeat it than just one solo. Those close defense gattling guns fire a massive number of rounds very quickly, making it easy to deplete your stores rapidly. And once that ammo’s gone, all that remains are M-16s and sidearms.
The naval strategy of closing off choke points along sea lanes needs to be rethought when the land portion of the choke point is held by OpForces given their new abilities as the ships become easy targets, not deterrents.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 10 2024 22:07 utc | 70

RE: Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2024 20:09 utc | 47
Or perhaps now is when the revenge of the last 30 years of those tactics come home to roost and from here on out.
Jeremy Corban taking a seat on the South African “team” in the Courtroom. There’s a guy whose life and political life was destroyed by the Zios.
More payback in deep dark corners coming. You see it all over the place. Roosters are coming home to Zios.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 10 2024 22:20 utc | 72

Hankster | Jan 10 2024 21:56 utc | 66–
The UNGA vote for ceasefire was 153 in favor as I recall, so one could say that many side with South Africa. IMO, those in favor constitute a majority of nations.
As for evidence of self-incrimination by the Zionists, there’re massive amounts in video and written form going back to 1948 and beyond. Recent opinion polling also provides evidence that the vast majority of Zionists are all guilty of supporting Genocide along with the US Government and several other NATO members.
Escobar’s 100% correct to say this trial and those to follow will sink the “rules-based order” as it will make China’s Global Security Initiative very popular, and it’s essentially a rephrasing of the UN Charter. All of China’s major Global Initiatives proposed over the last two years are available at my substack.

Posted by: karlof1 | Jan 10 2024 22:21 utc | 74

“Gaza is not now nor has it ever been even remotely comparable to a Nazi concentration camp.”
Posted by: genocidal | Jan 10 2024 20:25 utc | 53
Correct. German camps were much more humane (with hospitals and functioning symphony orchestras) than the Gaza project, and Germans were much nobler and considered people as compared to the low-grade mongrels like Milejkowsky (bibi) and a crowd of similar genocidal Israelis/Israel-firsters.
You are projecting. The IDF thugs have been shooting the Palestinian children and women for fun. Spielberg (a member of the Mossad-connected Mega group that financed Jeff Epstein) was profitably projecting in his holo-biz movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Orchestra_of_Auschwitz
https://veteranstoday.com/2021/12/30/mega-group-maxwells-and-mossad-the-spy-story-at-the-heart-of-the-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/
https://www.exposetheenemy.com/mega-group

Posted by: Cerena | Jan 10 2024 22:45 utc | 76

someone needs to “lend” a real anti ship missile to the Hoothies.
===============
Make Israel Gaza Again

Posted by: MIGA | Jan 10 2024 22:50 utc | 78

Trubind1 | Jan 10 2024 22:30 utc | 75
the multi-polar world it is obvious will be a very complex world rather than a simplistic utopia. For this we just have to look at the Russia Turkey relationship. On opposite sides in a number of conflicts yet they have good diplomatic and trade relations. We look at China bringing peace between Saudi Arabia and Iran thus ending the war on Yemen.
I look at this in the eyes of history. WWII and the advent of nuclear weapons were a historical game changer as to how states and great powers relate to each other. It should have been the end of the era of empires which encompasses all of written history, yet the Anglo world tried to continue empire in a different way – the hegemonic empire. I see the multi-polar world as bringing that to an end as well. It wont be pretty and completely peaceful but if we look at the many millions attacked and killed by the US empire since the end of WWII, death and destruction will greatly decrease.
There will always be various conflicts but as we are seeing, many states can negotiated diplomatically to wind conflicts down.
I want to see a world without cold war boundaries. At the same time I recognize there will always be areas of regional or civil conflict where it may not be safe to travel until the conflict is resolved.
I did not start to travel until late in life when I was nearly to ill to travel. I wish I could have traveled a lot more. Not to see tourist spots and photograph sights but just to travel amongst various peoples and gain an understanding of their cultures. For me it was not about traveling through the west and cultures similar or the same as my own, rather those whose cultures were completely different. Always much to learn.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 10 2024 23:00 utc | 80

UNSC passes resolution against Houthi “attacks” issuing a desist order basically.
11 Favor 4 Abstains.
The rules based order matches on. Can’t get a desist order against genocidal bombings, but manages to pass a desist order on a Nation that lobs a few rockets & kills no one.
4 abstains.
Pathetic “multipolar” winds ahead.
Anything to not hurt “business”.
Hopefully Houthis will ignore the resolution as does every other nation ignore the UNSC these days.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 10 2024 23:14 utc | 82

Posted by: genocidal | Jan 10 2024 20:25 utc | 53
According to Machiavelli – Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.
How do you feel being relegated to the back of the bus?

Posted by: Menz | Jan 10 2024 23:24 utc | 84

Genocidal @ 7, Ed @ 27:

“… The details about how, or with what weapons the Jews would use to resist is not important. The question is, does a captured people, contained in a concentration camp, or otherwise confined to a reservation by armed forces, have a right to use extreme violence to secure their freedoms? And, are the Nazis justified if they genocide the Jews for trying to escape?”

This is not a purely hypothetical situation … something like this actually did happen, in the famous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
It is significant that among the reasons for the revolt of Jewish resistance fighters in the ghetto included:
– the knowledge that all Jewish inhabitants in the ghetto were to be shipped out to the Treblinka death camp for extermination
– the revolt was a protest against the outside world’s indifference to the inmates’ suffering
– the inmates knew they faced horrible deaths but at least they could choose how to die, whether to die by resisting and fighting their oppressors or allowing their oppressors to choose how they would die.
Part of the revolt against the Nazis included executing people (that is, Jewish people) who collaborated with the Nazis in organising groups of people to be transported to Treblinka:

‘… The [Jewish Military Union] and [Jewish Combat Organization], built dozens of fighting posts and executed a number of Nazi collaborators, including Jewish Ghetto Police officers, members of the fake (German-sponsored and controlled) resistance organization Żagiew, as well as Gestapo and Abwehr agents (including the alleged agent and Judenrat associate Alfred Nossig, executed on 22 February 1943) … The ŻOB established a prison to hold and execute traitors and collaborators. Józef Szeryński, former head of the Jewish Ghetto Police, committed suicide …”

Of course, Genocidal would say the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto were justified in doing what they did, but the troll will see no parallels and similarities with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the active Hamas resistance that started on 7 October 2023.

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Jan 10 2024 23:27 utc | 86

Ten Israeli Troops Killed In Gaza Blast, Clashes
Six troops were killed in a blast and four others died during intense clashes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced.
The IDF said on January 9 that the six reservists, all combat engineers, were killed when explosives intended for demolishing a tunnel detonated during activity in central Gaza’s al-Bureij refugee camp. The blast took place near an alleged rocket manufacturing plant of the Hamas Movement on January 8.
The slain troops were named as Sergeant First Class Gavriel Bloom; Master Sergeant Amit Moshe Shahar; Captain Denis Krokhmalov Veksler; Captain Ron Efrimi; Master Sergeant Roi Avraham Maimon and Sergeant Major Akiva Yasinskiy.
Several others were injured in the blast. Some of whom are reportedly in a life-threatening condition, including Idan Amedi, a popular Israeli singer and actor.
The IDF also announced on January 9 that two reservists, Sergeant First Class David Schwartz and Sergeant First Class Yakir Hexter,were killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. The two combat engineers were a part of a paratrooper force. Another soldier was seriously wounded in the same attack.
https://southfront.press/ten-israeli-troops-killed-in-gaza-blast-clashes-videos/

Posted by: Menz | Jan 10 2024 23:34 utc | 88

Can ethnic cleansing be justified ? Can genocide be justified ? YES, According to Nazis, Neo Nazis, HAMAS and many at the MOA website, as long as it is is done to Israel and the Jews residing there.
Posted by: genocidal | Jan 10 2024 17:33 utc | 7
There we go playing the eternal victim again …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 10 2024 23:36 utc | 90

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 10 2024 20:15 utc | 50
Sorry was writing from memory in the previous reply. Yes, I see your point. There is surely “compromising material” on file for at least a few of the judges. And prosecutors. And defense.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2024 23:42 utc | 92

Hamas has NEVER called for the eradication of ALL Jews throughout the world. They merely called for the expulsion of the occupying colonialists who stole the Palestinians’ territory and continue to steal it. Then, they even took that out of their “charter.” The only party to this conflict calling for and openly carrying out genocide is Zionist Israel.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 10 2024 23:54 utc | 94

Someone mentioned that the “Houthi” movement are about the only party actively enforcing article I of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide:

Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by
General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948
Entry into force: 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII
The Contracting Parties ,
Having considered the declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946 that genocide is a crime under international law, contrary to the spirit and aims of the United Nations and condemned by the civilized world, Recognizing that at all periods of history genocide has inflicted great losses on humanity, and Being convinced that, in order to liberate mankind from such an odious scourge, international co-operation is required,
Hereby agree as hereinafter provided :
Article I
The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in
time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to
punish.
Article II

Seems pretty cut and dried to me. What Ansarullah is doing is perfectly legal under so called ‘international law’.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 10 2024 23:55 utc | 96

As usual, Russia “passes” but “regrets”…
Blah blah blah…unfortunately, his ME allies are unimpressed.
https://tass.com/russia/1730841
We would like to stress once again that this resolution cannot be viewed as legitimizing actions in the Red Sea by the so-called coalition made up of the United States and its satellites,” he said.
According to Nebenzya, the United States and its allies “cobbled together the so-called international coalition primarily consisting of US ships that should allegedly ensure security, while, in effect, the legitimacy of its actions raises some very serious questions in terms of international law.”
“We regret that, ****despite insistent demands by quite a number of delegations, ****including Arab representatives, the document has no mention of the deplorable situation in the Gaza Strip as the ***genuine primary reason behind the instability in the Red Sea,” the Russian envoy said.
As many as 11 UNSC members voted for the measure, while four countries, namely, Russia, China, Algeria and Mozambique, abstained.
Oh well Arab Nations… you’ve been told to go pound sand… “regrettably”…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Jan 11 2024 0:04 utc | 98

Trubind1 | Jan 10 2024 23:35 utc | 89
Nations have always traded. Even hunter gatherer groups/tribes nations had trade and at times long trade routs. with the technology of communications and travel, that is now global. Nations on both sides of the trade proffit/increase their prosperity from that trade. In looking at todays world, there are nations with low population density but a wealth of natural resources and there are nations with high population densities and low per capita resources. Nations with large populations and large domestic market can produce manufactured goods at much lower rates than nations with low population densities so there will always be win win trade between the low population states with resources and the high population states with manufacturing power.
Apart from simply resources and population densities there is also the fact that some geologies have certain resourses and others dont. go back to the stone age and in places the main resource traded was g ood quality stone for tool making no matter it be aboriginal Australia or stone age Europe and the flint mines.
Global trade is the norm, not and empire building exercise and China throughout its history has been the pre-eminent trading nation. Goodsw were traded between China and Rome and many other places. The silk roads run down to even northern Australia long before Europeans sighted the place.
Back I think around the fourteen hundreds, China built a fleet of the largest wooden ships ever built, not for war and conquest but for a trading expedition.
There is nothing malign about China’s belt and road initiative, only the realization that trade brings prosperity to all.
As for the west offshoring its manufacturing to China and other places, we must look to our own governments and oligarchs as the culprits, not China. Australia has a trade surplus of around fifty billion in our trade with China. Some of that should be turned back into subsidizing some local manufacturing, but instead, as with car manufacturing, existing subsidies are being removed.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 11 2024 0:19 utc | 100