{"id":1420313,"date":"2023-12-31T06:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=309169"},"modified":"2023-12-31T06:39:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T06:39:06","slug":"the-legal-fight-to-end-genocide-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/12\/31\/the-legal-fight-to-end-genocide-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legal Fight to End Genocide in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"The Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, were adopted in 1948. What else happened in 1948? The establishment of the state of Israel and the Nakba, right? So how, from this beginning, could international law accommodate ongoing colonization \u2014 which requires human subjugation, a hierarchy of life? That\u2019s the antithesis of a declaration that says everyone has inalienable rights. Even the best laws are not applied equally. The greatest violators of international law, including the United States, are never held accountable. They wrote the laws, so it makes sense that they\u2019ve created this system. \t\t<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.\r\n<br>If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a>\r\n<br>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/12\/31\/the-legal-fight-to-end-genocide-in-gaza\/\">The Legal Fight to End Genocide in Gaza<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/12\/31\/the-legal-fight-to-end-genocide-in-gaza\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Genocide Convention, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, were adopted in 1948. What else happened in 1948? The establishment of the state of Israel and the Nakba, right? So how, from this beginning, could international law accommodate ongoing colonization \u2014 which requires human subjugation, a hierarchy of life? That\u2019s the antithesis of a declaration that says everyone has inalienable rights. Even the best laws are not applied equally. The greatest violators of international law, including the United States, are never held accountable. They wrote the laws, so it makes sense that they\u2019ve created this system. \t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are logged in but can&#8217;t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/12\/31\/the-legal-fight-to-end-genocide-in-gaza\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/12\/31\/the-legal-fight-to-end-genocide-in-gaza\/\">The Legal Fight to End Genocide in Gaza<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1420940,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420313\/revisions\/1420940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}