KernowDamo: Whilst Israel will be delighted by the latest shift at the International Court of Justice, the world looks on in horror.
Right, so it would appear that a bit of a nightmare for global justice has opened up at the International Court of Justice, because the last thing we need is a President of the ICJ who is an out and out Zionist and unfortunately it appears that now is the case.
For those who have followed the case brought by South Africa against Israel at the ICJ, you will know or recall that when it came down to a vote on the plausible case for genocide being committed by Israel against the people of Gaza, there was an overwhelming vote in favour, but there was also one lone dissenting voice who voted against any and all allegations against Israel, even when the Israeli judge on the ICJ panel voted against his own country, Judge Julia Sebutinde of Uganda.
With the President of the ICJ Nawaf Salam of Lebanon now having accepted the role of Prime Minister back in his home country under the new Presidency there of Joseph Aoun, Julia Sebutinde, as vice President, assumes that role now for the remainder of the duration of this elected term, the President and vice president of the ICJ having been voted in last January, so for the next two years, Sebutinde is President of the ICJ and when I called her an out and out Zionist before, well, we now know an awful lot more about that when it comes to this judge and frankly raises major questions as to her ability to be impartial.
Right, so Israel will be elated I am sure that the President of the ICJ is now Julia Sebutinde, a judge who has voted in Israel’s favour at every resolution in their genocide case at the ICJ, even as the Israeli judge Ahron Barak could not bring himself to do, as it now gets investigated for the plausible crime of genocide that was established at the ICJ a little over a year ago now, despite Sebutinde’s dissent, the case having been brought of course by South Africa, a nation that knows a thing or two about apartheid and Israel is very much an apartheid state.
Sebutinde’s appointment will now raise significant questions in how this case proceeds now, especially right at this moment in time when, with a ceasefire in place, ICJ investigators could now get in to establish the facts. She could now conceivably undermine that effort though.
You have to remember what she voted against to understand how bad this is. She voted against the court ordering all military activity by Israeli against civilians to cease. She voted against ordering Israel to cancel it’s then planned invasion of Rafah, where so many of Gaza’s civilians were at that point trapped. She voted against Israel being made to stop forcibly displacing Gazan people, a war crime and an ICJ judge voted against stopping that.
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