Friday 7 June 2024

he genocidal logic was already there: undeniably present.

 


That's chilling. When reflecting on the conclusions of my second & third reports—addressing Israel's mass arbitrary deprivation of liberty of Palestinians & the harrowing conditions facing Palestinian children under occupation—I couldn't help but recognize something I had intuited without fully realizing it at the time. "The likelihood of these offenses being cumulatively committed as part of a policy of ‘de-Palestinization’ of the occupied territory and of a plan to incrementally annex it must be urgently investigated: such a plan would threaten the right of an entire people to exist as a national group, challenging the very foundations of the international legal order." (A/HRC/53/59) The genocidal logic was already there: undeniably present.
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Alonso Gurmendi
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Reading excerpts from the cross-examination of Otto Ohlendorf, commander of Einsatzgruppe D, during the Nuremberg subsequent trials, for my research, I came accross this chilling exchange. The most terrifying thing though is how familiar it feels in the current context
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