The truth about genocide and the problem of conscience

IntoIn international law, Ojno and Genocide are the greatest crime facing humanity in both history and today. Humanity, and especially civilization, should have zero tolerance for them.

The last one deserved this name for at least some time in human and materially devastating World War II, as evidenced by the founding Charter of the UN, the development of international humanitarian and war law, after all, it is not forgotten either of the Slovenian constitution and its internal or criminal regulation that sanction such crimes.

Of course, it is necessary to emphasize the internationally binding Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the 1948 genocide crime, signed by 153 countries, including Israel, which performs genocide, and the United States, which, without restraint, materially and politically support this country.

Let’s add that a Polish lawyer is credited for the convention Raphael Lemkinalso a Jew who survived the Holocaust.

It was designed in 1942, while performing a Nazi genocide against its people. Today, he turns in the grave when his country without any bad conscience over the Palestinians perform the genocide as she had previously experienced, and when, according to the Palestinian-American thinker Edward Said We follow this « how former victims cause new ones. »

That public television or presenter Echoes invited to the broadcast of the far -right policy Branka Grimswho practically justifies the genocide against the Palestinian nation, says that they themselves are without a moral compass by adding a global (European) crisis of morality and humanity. It is a policy that, like his superior leader without any moral or political brakes, supports authoritarian policy Benjamin Netanyahu And the « final solution » of the Palestinian problem, following the example of other similar cases in ancient and recent history, from Armenian to the last in Srebrenica, which they committed, like today over the Palestinians, is denied.

Unlike previous genocides, today’s information technology allows us to monitor the horrors of mass deaths in Gaza and the West Bank in real time, and thus cannot be changed. How do the current genocide denies do not believe their eyes, but when his contractors, with the Netanju and ministers of his government at the helm, unambiguously declare the intention that their goal is a biblical congestion of the great Israel, who referres the Palestinian people in achieving this goal.

Photo: Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters

Grims, for example, is not in Echoes Even in a word, it showed elemental human sympathy, which by threatening his or her own life, the surgeon of Slovenian roots Tom Potokar in destroyed hospitals in Gaza, with insufficient medical equipment and lack of medicines. Gaza today is reminiscent of Guernica, Warsaw ghetto, Coventry, terrible, Hiroshimo, nagasaki and many other similar cities in the past.

In Gaza after 19 months, we look at tens of thousands of murdered children and women wrapped in white sheets, destruction of health and school infrastructure together with people, killing journalists, healthcare staff, humanitarian workers, using civilians for a living wall and more. Last week alone, the Israeli bombing took 750 Palestinian lives and left behind 2000 wounded, mostly children and women.

According to a reputable British magazine The Economist It is an Israeli army, which declares itself the most moral (!) in the world, killed at least 109,000 Palestinians in the current war, which is much larger than the one cited by Palestinian health authorities, and represents five percent (!) Population before the war. In addition, Israel transferred 90 percent of the population in Gaza and demolished or damaged the same proportion of housing units.

These magazines would be difficult to blame « politicism », as Grims accuses the President of Slovenia with morally unacceptable speaking Natasha Pirc Musarwho, as the first among European statesmen, made it clear that it was genocide. Of course, the words will not be enough, but with them the president has offered Europe (EU) the opportunity to turn them into actions that will prevent or stop genocide. Israel is, according to the main geopolitical commentator at New York Times Tom FriedmanAn American of Jewish roots, in recent years mutated from a secular nationalist (cionistic) to Jewish supremacistic rule. In short, Israel, who has previously known at least this writer and America, is simply gone.

Europe has the power to do something, whether it is economic or political pressure (sanctions), and certainly with the withdrawal of military support in weapons. A time when Europe can do anything else, it is quickly and perhaps irreversible. It is not difficult to predict how the history will remember the president’s word, nor is it a shameful place that its defamifer deserves, especially if Europe continues to accompany the Palestinian and human tragedy.

Last but not least, the politics that has a social science education is extremely dismissive and professionally modest, if not already misleading, its arbitrary treatment of genocide. It would also be naively expected to be able to be informed from several Israeli global reference experts in genocide, who, in the case of Gaza, recognize the « school case of genocide ».

His superior party leader understandably supported him and, instead of genocide over the Palestinians, diverted the « genocide » to the post -war mass murders of « Slovenes over Slovenes », who really happened, but of course no basis in the definitions of this phenomenon in literature or decent (argued) political narrative. A similar problem has Anze Logar, who will prefer to wait for the genocide judgment until an international court has been imposed. He will then be too late to find out that he had actually happened, or he will deny him.

Photo: Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters

Grims continued to go when he simply invented a genocide in addition to the Slovenian national citizens, who is taking place in South Africa this time. The politician of the extreme political party is not original in this, he simply transcribed it from Donald Trumpwhich he whispered to him Elon Muskwho had previously lived in « white » South Africa and did not suffer from rule Nelson Mandele. A prominent journalist Adam Robertsemployed by the magazine The Economist, It would be difficult to blame left -wing propaganda, reported from South Africa for four years and has talk about genocide in this country at least false.

It is right to listen to Israeli authorities instead of domestic genocide denials. I think of a kind of « useful idiotism » as we know it from Stalin’s times, and the Slovenian right is that the denial of the genocide of Udinja Netanyahu, which does not really hide the genocidal intention of his government (the state) over the Palestinian people.

He repeatedly mentioned this intention to Netanyahu, reminiscent of a statement in the book that the purpose of the war is the military destruction of all buildings in Gaza so that the Palestinians will never be able to return there. Similar statements were made by the Minister of Agriculture (!) Avi breathterto carry out Israel in Gaza the second Nakbo, which will be even worse than the first of 1948, when 750,000 Palestinians from their land were expelled, and the Minister of Finance (!) Becalel smotric With a similar statement that gauze should be « completely destroyed ».

Genocide, however, is also talked about by the prominent Israelis who oppose him. Let’s take the words of the former Prime Minister Ehuda OlmertaThat it is a reckless, unlimited and brutal criminal killing of civilians. One of Israeli scientists exploring comparative genocides says that he knows not a single (!) In this area who would doubt that we are a witness to genocide in Gaza. A former « hero » from gauze Jair Golan He expressed the opinion that Israel is changing into an international Pari war, which is increasingly reminiscent of South Africa during the racist white regime. According to him, the normal country does not fight civilians and kill children for the hobby. Even a special envoy to Donald Trump that our right adores, Steve Witkoff He could not pass that Israel was not willing to give up the continuation of the war until the end.

Of course, it is a paradox and a mistake of history, which is not so rarely a winding that someone in the European Parliament, which owes its origin (for) promises « never again », that is, wars and genocides! Orwell would quickly recognize that the denial of the genocide is a propaganda who is his own authoritarian thinking and politics, and considering real facts is a democracy. The silence or denial of what is happening in Gaza today, as well as the inhabited robbery of Palestinian land on the western bank, through all moral norms and the laws of humanity, changes their advocates into fellow citizens. In the meantime, I am surprised and saddened by the fact that, with the atrocities in Gaza and the fact that the Slovenian (far) right is supported, they are silent by those who bravely presented and used in his criticism in his previous regime Orwell’s thought.

Whether or not the international community, especially on the turn of Europe, will stop genocide, this time is an open question. The Palestinians, as once Jews and Bosniaks, notice that the world does not care about them and that they are left to the tragic fate, even if they are killed or killed to the last, as the mother of five children expressed. Also, hunger, as Stalin’s regime once in Ukraine, uses Israeli military strategy as an effective weapon.

In a bad consolation, although it is not negligible, it may be that humanity knows at least two moral and the truth to the instance, which is a history that records everything and remember how people passed the humanity test, and the conscience when descendants ask their parents and grandparents, which side (in) humanity have set themselves in this war. Just as according to the second world, the next German generation, not Italian, asked their parents how they responded to Nazism.

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Rudi Rizman, a deserving professor of sociology and political science, university
in Ljubljana.