The ICJ has completely dismissed the right of Israel to defend itself during the preliminary ruling in the case of of genocide against Israel.

By the West's own rules based international order, Israel does not have a right to defend itself within the territories of Gaza or the West Bank. The Biden administration is going directly against the ruling of the ICJ with statements like this, as well as blatantly lying about the facts of the matter. As to be expected, of course, this administration is complicit in this genocide, after all.

In finding there is a plausible case against Israel, the International Court of Justice treated with contempt the argument from Israel that the case should be dismissed as it is exercising its right of self-defence. This argument took up over half of Israel’s pleadings. Not only did the court find there is a plausible case of genocide, the court only mentioned self-defence once in its interim ruling – and that was merely to note that Israel had claimed it.

That the ICJ has not affirmed Israel’s right to self-defence is perhaps the most important point in this interim order. It is the dog that did not bark. The argument which every western leader has been using is spurned by the ICJ.

Now the ICJ did not repeat that an occupying power has no right of self-defence. It did not need to. It simply ignored Israel’s specious assertion.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/01/has-international-law-survived-or-has-the-western-political-class-killed-it/