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Quand j’écris « émotion », je ne parle pas juste des mesures annoncées, mais de l’énoncé, lent et circonstancié, de l’ordonnance. Parce que, lentement et progressivement, à chaque point, se dévoilait la défaite juridique d’Israël. Je pense que la défaite juridique d’Israël est massive ici, dans ce long et implacable énoncé des justifications de l’ordonnance.

Je suis persuadé qu’Israël, les gouvernements complices et les médias vont se focaliser sur les mesures elles-mêmes (et sur le fait qu’il n’y a pas d’ordonnance explicite imposant un cessez-le-feu) ; parce que revenir sur la longue litanie qui justifie les mesures « pratiques » est bien plus terrible pour Israël.

26 janvier 2024 - 13h00
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La Cour internationale de justice ordonne à Israël d’empêcher tout éventuel acte de « génocide » à Gaza

La plus haute juridiction de l’ONU a appelé vendredi Israël à faire tout son possible pour empêcher tout acte de génocide dans la bande de Gaza, en rendant une décision très attendue. Israël doit tout faire pour « empêcher la commission de tous actes entrant dans le champ d’application » de la Convention sur le génocide, a déclaré la Cour internationale de justice (CIJ), qui siège à La Haye.

La CIJ a également à Israël d’autoriser l’accès humanitaire à Gaza. Israël doit prendre « des mesures immédiates et efficaces pour permettre la fourniture des services de base et de l’aide humanitaire dont les Palestiniens ont un besoin urgent pour faire face aux conditions de vie défavorables auxquelles sont confrontés les Palestiniens », a statué la Cour internationale de justice (CIJ) dans son verdict.

13h17 : L’Afrique du Sud salue une « victoire décisive » pour le droit après le verdict de la CIJ

L’Afrique du Sud a salué vendredi une « victoire décisive pour l’État de droit international et une étape importante dans la quête de justice pour le peuple palestinien », à l’issue de l’audience de la CIJ à La Haye. Le ministère des Affaires étrangères, dans son communiqué, estime que la Cour « a déterminé que les actions d’Israël à Gaza sont plausiblement génocidaires et a indiqué des mesures provisoires sur cette base », la remerciant « pour sa décision rapide ».

Johann Soufi
@jsoufi
▻https://twitter.com/jsoufi/status/1750867720600428736
2️⃣.

Il n’y a probablement que des déçus !
– Ceux qui étaient persuadés d’un génocide en cours, sont déçus de l’absence d’un cessez-le-feu !
– Ceux qui défendent encore #Israël sont choqués du jugement qui le suspecte officiellement de #génocide.

3️⃣.

La Cour reconnaît à son IMMENSE majorité, le « risque de #génocide ou le génocide » !

C’est Énorme ! Ça consacre la pertinence des alertes et du terme employé, contrairement à ce que disait par exemple le ministre des affaires étrangères, @steph_sejourne

4️⃣.

Cette décision déclenche incontestablement l’obligation juridique des États, notamment des alliés d’Israël, de prendre des mesures / sanctions contre cet État pour prévenir le génocide ! Par exemple un embargo sur les armes !

5️⃣.

Cette décision confirme une chose pour tous ceux qui ne croient pas en la justice internationale ! À l’exception de #Sebutinde, tous les juges ont décidé de manière largement indépendante. Sur le droit !

6️⃣.

Cela ne signifie pas que les États, notamment #Israël vont exécuter cette décision sans contrainte !
Les Etats occidentaux vont continuer la politique de l’autruche ! 🤐
Il nous revient à tous, notamment dans les démocraties, de s’assurer que ce ne soit pas le cas ! ⚖️💪🗣️

Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו
@netanyahu
▻https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1750879210866929886

L’engagement d’Israël envers le droit international est inébranlable. Notre engagement sacré à continuer de défendre notre pays et notre peuple est tout aussi inébranlable.

Comme tout pays, Israël a le droit inhérent de se défendre.

La tentative ignoble de refuser à Israël ce droit fondamental constitue une discrimination flagrante contre l’État juif, et elle a été rejetée à juste titre.

L’accusation de génocide portée contre Israël est non seulement fausse, mais elle est scandaleuse, et les gens honnêtes du monde entier devraient la rejeter.

À la veille de la Journée internationale de commémoration de l’Holocauste, je m’engage une fois de plus, en tant que Premier ministre d’Israël, à ne plus jamais recommencer.

Israël continuera de se défendre contre le Hamas, une organisation terroriste génocidaire.

Le 7 octobre, le Hamas a perpétré les atrocités les plus horribles contre le peuple juif depuis l’Holocauste, et il promet de répéter ces atrocités encore et encore.

Notre guerre est contre les terroristes du Hamas, pas contre les civils palestiniens.

Nous continuerons à faciliter l’aide humanitaire et à faire tout notre possible pour maintenir les civils hors de danger, même si le Hamas utilise les civils comme boucliers humains.

Nous continuerons à faire ce qui est nécessaire pour défendre notre pays et défendre notre peuple.

Commentaire de Trita Parsi :
▻https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1750862839760261566

The ICJ just ruled against Israel and determined that South Africa successfully argued that Israel’s conduct plausibly could constitute genocide. The Court imposes several injunctions against Israel and reminds Israel that its rulings are binding, according to international law. A final ruling will still take more time, but this ruling will have significant political repercussions. Here are a few thoughts.

This is a devastating blow to Israel’s global standing. To put it in context, Israel has worked ferociously for the last two decades to defeat the BDS movement - Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions - not because it will have a significant economic impact on Israel, but because of the manner that it could delegitimize Israel internationally. However, the ruling of the ICJ that Israel is plausibly engaged in genocide is far more devastating to Israel’s legitimacy than anything BDS could have achieved.

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Lire aussi la suite de ce long message, à propos des États-Unis et de l’Union européenne. En particulier quelle sera l’attitude de Biden devant le Conseil de sécurité : bloquera-t-il une résolution appelant à respecter la décision de la cour internationale ?

Le texte de l’ordonnance est en ligne :
▻https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-en.pdf
En français :
►https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20240126-ord-01-00-fr.pdf

J’insiste : je pense que c’est la démonstration juridique (les attendus ?) qui est ici importante et constitue un « devastating blow », bien plus que les mesures finalement imposées, qu’Israël est déjà en train de prétendre que c’est pas grave, puisqu’elle les respecte déjà…

Final point: The mere application of South Africa’s application to the ICJ appears to have moderated Israel’s war conduct. Plans to ethically cleanse Gaza and send its residents to third countries appear to have been somewhat paused, presumably because of how such actions would boost South Africa’s application. If so, it shows that the Court, in an era where the force of international law is increasingly questioned, has had a greater impact in terms of deterring unlawful Israeli actions than anything the Biden administration has done.

C’est consternant, mais c’est vrai, mais c’est insuffisant, car il y aura toujours autant de morts, toujours plus que jamais auparavant. Enfin. Nous verrons. Mais le gvt israélien semble vraiment borné, pour le pire.

@biggrizzly T’es vache, justement ce dernier paragraphe est celui que je trouve pas intéressant dans cette intervention. :-) Je ne comprends pas pourquoi il termine là-dessus.

Je remarque qu’Ali Abunimah, d’Electronic Intifada (et qu’on peut difficilement accuser d’être un défenseur mou-du-genou de la cause palestinienne), est parmi ceux qui ont une lecture très positive de l’ordonnance du tribunal :
▻https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1750883578307649984

A “ceasefire” is what you demand in an armed conflict. In a genocide you demand an immediate end to all genocidal acts and that is exactly what the ICJ ordered with immediate effect. Please stop helping “Israel” spin its historic defeat as a win.

Equally important to remember that ICJ ruling is not about what Israel will do: Israel will ignore any ruling. This is about forcing the rest of the world to take seriously their obligations to stop an entity now officially accused of genocide by the world’s highest court.

Même remarque de Saree Makdisi :
▻https://twitter.com/sareemakdisi/status/1750895067672531074

No, the ICJ did not call for a simple ceasefire, i.e., for the Israelis to stop shooting. It called for the Zionist state to stop ALL genocidal actions: killing, causing mental and bodily harm, creating conditions to make life impossible and so on.

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Vijey Prashad :
▻https://twitter.com/vijayprashad/status/1750901149752766685

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MAP welcomes ICJ’s decision to issue provisional measures in the case presented by South Africa on Israel’s conduct in Gaza
▻https://www.map.org.uk/news/archive/post/1559-map-welcomes-icjs-decision

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) welcomes the decision of the International Court of Justice to issue provisional measures in the case presented by South Africa on Israel’s conduct in Gaza. States must now take urgent and immediate action to ensure these are implemented in full, and the unimaginable suffering of 2.3 million people in Gaza ended.

The Court’s issuing of provisional measures indicates that there is a plausible risk of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, reflecting warnings issued from UN independent experts of a “genocide in the making” and the terrible experiences of people living this reality inside Gaza, including our own staff.

For more than 100 days, the world has watched with horror the immense suffering resulting from Israel’s indiscriminate bombardment and siege, MAP has demanded that the international community act to uphold their responsibility to protect civilians in Gaza from atrocity crimes. The court’s decision must be a wake-up call to world leaders who have persistently failed to uphold this duty, and a warning that they must act to end their potential complicity in the most serious of crimes.

MAP notes that full implementation of the court’s provisional measures, in particular the demand that Israel enable the provision of humanitarian assistance and basic services to those who need it in Gaza, is impossible without an immediate ceasefire. All parties must uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law, and the systematic dismantling of Gaza’s health system must end.

We hope today will be a vital first step to bringing justice, health and recovery for the people of Gaza.

Que vont dire les médias des États activement complices d’Israël (renseignement, appui militaire, fourniture d’armes),et que feront ces derniers suite à l’ordonnance de la #CIJ ? La question elle est pas vite répondue.

je re-cite l’extrait de @arno

Equally important to remember that ICJ ruling is not about what Israel will do: Israel will ignore any ruling. This is about forcing the rest of the world to take seriously their obligations to stop an entity now officially accused of genocide by the world’s highest court.

C’était clairement rappelé dans l’audience des SudAf : tous les états membres du club anti-genocide sont tenus de surveiller, alerter, respecter et faire respecter la convention. L’ordonnance de la cour concerne Israël bien sûr mais aussi tous les autres.

Je sais pas si tout le monde est convoqué pour faire son rapport dans un mois :-)

#extrêmeS-droiteS

Hum… les employés de Saudi Oger vont-ils (comme promis encore en septembre) être enfin payés ? (Oui, parce que si ça t’a échappé : Hariri n’a plus de sous et est proprement tenu en laisse.)
▻http://www.france24.com/fr/20170914-liban-france-groupe-btp-saudi-oger-saad-hariri-va-payer-arrieres-

L’aspect évidemment ridicule de l’événement, c’est que Saad se rend deux fois en Arabie séoudite en quelques jours, applique ce qui a été annoncé par un ministre séoudien en début de semaine, rencontre le nouveau Séoud-en-chef ben Salmane et dans la foulée annonce sa démission depuis l’Arabie séoudite, tout ça paraît-il pour dénoncer la « mainmise » de l’Iran sur le Liban.

Malgré cet aspect ridicule, on peut être particulièrement inquiet. Que l’Arabie séoudite décide de porter (à nouveau) son affrontement régional sur la scène libanaise ne présage d’absolument rien de bon pour le pays (tu as vu l’état des pays où l’Arabie a prétendu « contrer » l’influence iranienne ?).

▻http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=772730
Commentaire des Iraniens : "La démission de Hariri a été arrangée par Trump et Muhammad ben Salmane, en fionction d’une décision manifeste des Saoudiens de s’en prendre au Hezbollah."
طهران : استقالة الحريري جاءت بترتيب من ترامب ومحمد بن سلمان وبقرار سعودي واضح لمواجهة “حزب الله”

November 2, 2017
Targeting Lebanon Again
Edito d’ABA. Cela date du 2 novembre mais, comme c’est en anglais, je suppose que cela a dû être publié un peu avant.
▻http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=771836

We do not know what instructions Hariri was given when he met Saudi strongman Crown Prince Muhammad bin-Salman. But it would not come as a surprise to learn that he was told either to withdraw from the government or sack its Hezbollah ministers in order to create another government crisis in Lebanon. Hariri would have no option but to comply. That would mean the collapse of the hard-won political accommodation that enabled him to return to office and Gen. Michel Aoun to be elected president.

Angry Arab: Hariri resignation in Beirut
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.fr/2017/11/hariri-assassination-in-beirut.html

It is funny: people of the Saudi and Israeli lobbies on social media are jubilant about Saad Hariri’s resignation (from Riyadh, no less and through Saudi regime media) and treating the matter as if it was a purely Lebanese matter. The resignation was days in the making. Saudi minister (for Gulf affairs but he also seems to be in charge of Lebanese affairs as well) has been threatening the Lebanese people and government for many days and warning of an impending action. In fact, he threatened hours before Hariri resignation that Saudi Arabia will “cut off” the hands of Iran—which was the same expression used by Hariri in the speech which was prepared for him. Hariri was sitting with Hizbullah ministers and defending the political arrangement in which all parties were represented against critics in his quarters. He also met with a senior Iranian delegation HOURS before his resignation (above) (the delegated was headed by Ali Akbar Welayeti, who said after the meeting that it was “constructive”). Just after the meeting, Hariri was summoned to Riyadh and he took a selfti with Minister Sabhan (the latter posted it on Twitter (above) and said it was after a long meeting), and then the speech of resignation was aired on Saudi media. Its text was counter to all the speeches that Hariri has been giving for many months. The best part is that Saudi regime media announced that there was an assassination attempt on Hariri’s life just before he departed for Saudi Arabia. The pro-Saudi branch of the Lebanese security services promptly told Lebanese media that they never heard of any of that and that they were not sources for this fable.

Au sujet de la prétendue tentative d’assassinat contre Hariri, le démenti des FSI (généralement pro-séoudienne et proches du camp Hariri) :
▻http://nna-leb.gov.lb/fr/show-news/83957/Les-FSI-mentent-les-rumeurs-sur-la-tentative-39-assassinat-jou-contre-Sa

La direction générale des FSI a démenti, ce samedi dans un communiqué, les informations qui circulent dans les médias, réseaux sociaux et sites électroniques, selon lesquelles son service de renseignements aurait déjoué une tentative d’assassinat contre le Premier ministre démissionnaire Saad Hariri.

« La direction des FSI précise que ces informations sont erronées, qu’elle n’a fourni aucun détail et qu’elle ne dispose d’aucune donnée à cet égard », précise le communiqué.

Benjamin Netanyahu @netanyahu
15:27 - 4 nov. 2017
▻https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/926878529240911872

My remarks on the resignation of Lebanese PM Hariri

Saad Hariri Quits as Lebanon Prime Minister, Blaming Iran - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/world/middleeast/saad-hariri-lebanon-iran.html

On en est là, il faut lire un article du NYT pour se rendre compte combien les articles des MSM français et les reportages de France 24 sur le sujet sont lamentables.

The surprise announcement — which shocked even his own staff — was an ominous sign of the escalating regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, analysts said, indicating the growing dominance of Iran and Hezbollah as well as the Saudis’ increasingly assertive response.

Lebanese and regional analysts, whether supporters or opponents of Hezbollah, said it appeared that Mr. Hariri had been pressured to resign by his patrons, the Saudis , as they and the United States ratchet up efforts to counter Iranian influence. The resignation came after weeks of sharp American and Saudi condemnations of Iran, including from President Trump, and new American sanctions against Hezbollah.

By pushing out Mr. Hariri, analysts said, Saudi Arabia could deny Hezbollah a credible Sunni governing partner — an attempt to isolate it and deny it the fig leaf of a national unity government.

“They concluded that Hariri was serving as more of a cover for Iranian and Hezbollah influence than as a counterweight to them,” said Rob Malley, a former special Middle East adviser to President Barack Obama and the vice president of the International Crisis Group.

Yet the resignation also shows how few options Iran’s opponents have. Without Mr. Hariri in power, the United States and Saudi Arabia lose their main partner in the Lebanese government.

Across the political spectrum, analysts and officials said the resignation ushered in new dangers. If the next government is more pro-Hezbollah, they said, that could lead to devastating sanctions. It could even increase the chances of a new war with Israel, which would see added justification for its argument that there is little distinction between Hezbollah and the Lebanese state.

Mr. Hariri even raised the specter of internal violence. [si jamais des attentats contre le camp du 14 mars reprennent on aura été averti] He compared the atmosphere in Lebanon now to the days before the 2005 assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, saying he believed his own life was in danger. “I sensed what’s being woven in secret to target my life,” he said.

Mr. Hariri’s father was killed when his motorcade was bombed on Beirut’s seafront. Several Hezbollah members are being tried in absentia in a special United Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague, although the militant group has denied involvement in the assassination.

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Mr. Hariri headed a 30-member national unity cabinet that was crafted to protect the country from any spillover from the multisided war in neighboring Syria, where Iran backed the government and Saudi Arabia backed the insurgents.

That mission has largely been successful , even though Hezbollah has sided with the Syrian government, Lebanese Sunni militants have joined insurgents there, and well over one million refugees flooded this small Mediterranean country.

In Lebanon’s political system, power is divided between a prime minister, who must be Sunni; a president, who must be Maronite Christian; and a speaker of Parliament, who must be Shiite.

The exercise of real power in the country is a more complicated affair of alliances, rivalries and division of spoils between the leaders of sectarian groups, including former warlords from Lebanon’s civil war.

Hezbollah, which rose to prominence fighting the Israeli occupation of south Lebanon, is the strongest because of its powerful militia, which can act independently of the state and in recent years has served as an expeditionary force across Syria.

In recent years Lebanon’s rival blocs have essentially agreed to confine their fight to Syria. But tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran have only increased.

In addition to Hezbollah’s decisive role in helping President Bashar al-Assad of Syria hold on to power, Iran has supported several militias in Iraq that have managed to defeat Islamic State forces in that country and remain a fighting force.

Iranian leaders say their interference is needed to stop terrorism, and to create a security zone for their country. The country’s influence started to rise after the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in 2011, leaving behind an incomplete army and a pro-Iranian government.

Iran’s filling of the vacuum created by the departure of the United States military has been an extremely worrying development for Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states, who have seen their efforts to fight proxy wars with Iran largely fail.

And now that the Syrian war seems to be entering a new phase, with Mr. Assad still ruling a devastated country, there are fears that tensions that had been pushed to the back burner — inside Lebanon, between Hezbollah and Israel, and elsewhere — could re-emerge.

The United States has stepped up sanctions on Hezbollah in recent weeks after President Trump criticized Iran and the landmark nuclear deal it reached under Mr. Obama.

“It signals a new phase of escalation,” said Ali Rizk, a pro-Hezbollah Lebanese analyst, adding that the imminent defeat of Islamic State by the United States would put new pressure on what it sees as Shiite extremists. “Lebanon is in for a hard time,” Mr. Rizk said.

The resignation brought sharp words from Israel and Iran. Bahram Ghasemi, a spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, said Mr. Hariri’s speech was driven by a Saudi, American and Israeli effort aimed at “creating tension in Lebanon and the region.”

And in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the resignation “a wake-up call for the international community to take action against the Iranian aggression.”

The pressure now is on the Lebanese president, Mr. Aoun, who will hold consultations with Parliament about appointing a caretaker government, said Imad Salamey, an analyst at the American University of Beirut.

“If he indeed is going to bring in a pro-Hezbollah government, then he has to face the consequences,” such as new sanctions, Mr. Salamey said. “It will be a massive U.S. and Saudi response. The economy will collapse for sure.”

In his speech, Mr. Hariri said he wanted to unite Lebanon and free it from outside influence. He pronounced himself “full of optimism and hope that Lebanon will be stronger, free, independent, with no authority over it except that of its own great people.”

But in the streets of Tariq al-Jdeedeh, a mostly Sunni neighborhood of Beirut that is part of Mr. Hariri’s political base, anger and confusion contrasted with the posters of Mr. Hariri that festooned the buildings.

“Hariri didn’t do this for Lebanon, he did this for Saudi against Iran,” said Nabil Idriss, who was tending his son’s fabric shop. “Now with this move, the picture is more transparent than ever. Saad Hariri was never in control.”

#Liban #Hezbollah #Israel #Etats-Unis #Arabie_saoudite

Netanyahu promet de faire échouer l’accord sur l’Iran
▻http://fr.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-promet-de-faire-echouer-laccord-sur-liran

Beware: Republican Jews on the warpath
▻http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.641334

Benjamin Netanyahu is determined to show the president once and for all who really rules in Washington, who is the landlord both here and there

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In these very moments, the protocols are being rewritten. Rich Jews are writing them in their own handwriting. They, in their wealth, are confirming with their own signatures what anti-Semites used to slander them with in days gone by: We, the elders of Zion, pull the strings of Congress, and the congressmen are nothing but marionettes who do our will. If they don’t understand our words, they’ll understand our threats. And if in the past, we ran the show from behind the scenes, now we’re doing it openly, from center stage. And if you forget our donations, the wellspring will run dry.

Netanyahu sur Twitter : “We do have a profound disagreement today w/U.S. Admin & P5+1 over the offer that has been made to Iran which threatens Israel’s survival.”
▻https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/565241151872319489