{"id":109949,"date":"2024-01-08T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=109949"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T14:50:39","slug":"15-00-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=109949","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu taps Aharon Barak to represent Israel in ICJ genocide case"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Netanyahu taps Aharon Barak to represent Israel in ICJ genocide case<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

DAVID ISAAC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The government’s choice of one of its biggest opponents has surprised observers and has met with mixed reactions from ministers.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

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\nFormer Supreme Court President Aharon Barak. Photo by Yonatan Sindel\/Flash90.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Israel has chosen Aharon Barak, 87, a former president of the Israeli Supreme Court, to sit as its representative on the judges\u2019 panel at the International Court of Justice in the Hague to hear proceedings brought by South Africa against Israel, which the former accuses of violating the Genocide Convention.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hearings are scheduled for Jan. 11-12. The first day South Africa will present its oral argument. Israel will present on the second day.<\/span><\/p>\n

The hearings will be devoted to South Africa\u2019s request for \u201cprovisional measures\u201d to be brought against Israel, meaning an emergency suspension of Israel\u2019s war against Hamas in Gaza while the court decides the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 15-judge panel will be expanded by two additional judges, one from each side in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n

The choice of Barak has surprised observers and has been met with mixed reactions from government members as he led Israel\u2019s \u201cconstitutional revolution\u201d in the 1990s\u2014In the eyes of Israel\u2019s political right a power grab which has led to a decades-long expansion of the court\u2019s power.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the Netanyahu coalition introduced its judicial reform plan in January, arguing that it would restore a growing imbalance between the three branches of government, the ensuing battle consumed Israel\u2019s political discourse for the next 10 months, ceasing only with the Hamas attack in October.<\/span><\/p>\n

During the contest, which saw opponents of reform take to the streets in weekly protests, Barak became a bogeyman of the right, as he helped the opposition undermine the government\u2019s efforts by warning that the reform posed a threat to Israel\u2019s democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the most outspoken critic of the choice of Barak to represent Israel at the ICJ has been Knesset member Tali Gottlieb of the Likud, who tweeted on Sunday, \u201cWith all due respect, I don\u2019t agree that retired [Supreme Court] President Aharon Barak will be the judge on behalf of the State of Israel at the Hague tribunal, even at the request of Prime Minister Netanyahu.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She added: \u201cOne who came out against the government last year and presented it in such a negative light now represents the country? And under the auspices of a right-wing government? Indescribable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0Kan News, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu of the Otzma Yehudit Party wrote on the government\u2019s WhatsApp group that Netanyahu had asked that Israel\u2019s views be represented at the hearing, but that \u201cI am not sure that the presence of the former president, Aharon Barak, will promote the correct views on the issue.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Transportation Minister Miri Regev told\u00a0Kan News, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t choose [Barak]. He is not in the consensus. \u2026There are other professors, maybe not from the right, who could represent the state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, others in the coalition supported the move. Interior Minister Moshe Arbel of the Shas Party, replying to Eliyahu, saying that Barak\u2019s appointment was a lesson that at the moment of truth and despite differences of opinion, Israel stands united.<\/span><\/p>\n

Opposition members, including National Unity Party chairman Benny Gantz and Yesh Atid Party chairman Yair Lapid, also supported Barak\u2019s selection.<\/span><\/p>\n

South Africa filed charges at the ICJ on Dec. 29 that Israel was violating its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (or \u201cGenocide Convention\u201d), to which it is a signatory.<\/span><\/p>\n

In its application, South Africa said Israel\u2019s acts \u201care genocidal in character, as they are committed with the requisite specific intent\u2026to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a part of the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry denounced the move, saying, \u201cIsrael rejects with disgust the\u00a0blood libel<\/a>\u00a0spread by South Africa and its application to the International Court of Justice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli Prime Minister\u2019s Office spokesman Eylon Levy said, \u201cIn giving political and legal cover to the Oct. 7 massacre and the Hamas human-shield strategy, South Africa has made itself\u00a0criminally complicit<\/a>\u00a0with Hamas\u2019s campaign of genocide against our people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Biden administration also\u00a0criticized<\/a>\u00a0South Africa. \u201cWe find this submission meritless, counterproductive, completely without any basis in fact whatsoever,\u201d U.S. National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said last week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Legal observers tell JNS that the court\u2019s decisions are legally binding, but that many nations, including the United States, which have run afoul of the court have ignored its rulings.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. Its seat is at the Peace Palace in The Hague in the Netherlands. It deals with legal disputes between states, whereas the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutes individuals.<\/span><\/p>\n

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