Ep. 113 - Briefcase and the Shotgun, sorting out the ICJ
This week Lara and Michael (mostly Lara) break down the significance of the ICJ ruling from the perspective of a Palestinian lawyer with an emphasis on international law.
While this decision is not the end of the genocide, it gives us a useful tool to be used in furtherance of the freedom struggle. As Nkosi Mandela said, it’s everything all at once: the ppl on the ground, the folks in the diaspora, BDS, direct action, and all forms of disruption at once that will bring about the collapse of the settler colonial apartheid Zionist entity.
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00:00 Intro
02:09 Legal perspective of the ICJ ruling and why the word "ceasefire" was not mentioned
06:57 What did the Court ordered and what does it mean?
12:00 The statements of genocidal intent recalled by the Court in the Order
17:14 The genocide case will go to the merits
18:46 Israel lost every single legal argument that it put before the Court
20:28 What the Court was asked to do
24:27 Going through the details of the provisional measures ordered by the Court
28:21 Addressing people's frustration with the Court's order
34:09 The Wire as an analogy for the liberation of Palestine
36:40 Third states are on notice: The US must stop funding and arming Israel as this constitutes complicity in genocide which is also a violation of the Genocide Convention
37:43 The Center for Constitutional Rights sued the Biden administration in California federal court for complicity in genocide
39:16 The US cut funding of UNRWA as retaliation despite the fact that the Court ordered Israel to ensure delivery of aid
40:00 Mohamed El Kurd reacts to the ICJ's Order
45:15 Outro