Craig Murray – Day 2 at the International Court of Justice in The Hague

Craig Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower

At this stage the South African delegation returned to their allocated office inside the building to finalise the formal press statement. We went with them. I was chatting to Amaar Hijazi, Palestine’s Deputy Foreign Minister, who I know a bit. One of the ICJ ladies came in with a clipboard, asked for silence, and then asked the assembled group in the manner of a public proclamation:

“is this a legal meeting or a political meeting?”

One of the ladies said to me “I am asking you to leave and you are refusing to do what I say”.

I replied “Oh no, certainly not. Of course I am doing what you say. Just very slowly”.

We shook hands briefly and then the realisation struck me.

“Are you the surgeon?”

Ghassan looked diffident, slightly abashed.

“The surgeon from Gaza?”.

“Yes, I am Ghassan Abu SItta.”

“I am honoured, sir. Greatly honoured”.

He looked slightly embarrassed, and they dashed off to their meeting.

There were some changes from the day before. We are to be allowed pens. But in view of “people wandering around” the day before, they said huffily, we were to be escorted in via a back door and leave the same way, and strictly forbidden from talking or interacting with anybody not in our group. So were entered the tiny public gallery. It has only two rows, and I now discovered that if you sit in the second row you cannot see anything. From the hall you can’t even tell there is a second row to the gallery. Once again, I marveled at the lack of attention to the dreadful design of the courtroom.

In the UK, the BBC and Sky both ran almost all the Israeli case live, having not run any of the South African case live. I believe something smilar was true in the USA, Australia and Germany too.

While the court was in session, Germany has announced it will intervene in the substantial case to support Israel. They argue explicitly that, as the world’s greatest perpetrator of genocide, they are uniquely placed to judge. It is in effect a copyright claim. They are protecting Germany’s intellectual property in the art of genocide. Perhaps they might in future license genocide, or allow Israel to continue genocide on a franchise basis.

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2024-01-14 | Geopolitics, Article, Craig Murray | English |