Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) on Israeli war crimes and genocide (2013): “ The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) after listening to the testimonies of 11 prosecution witnesses and voluminous documentary evidence and extensive submissions by the prosecution and amicus curiae delivered its judgement on the two charges against the State of Israel and retired Army general Amos Yaron.… The Tribunal agreed with the prosecution’s argument that allegations in relation to the charge of genocide against Israel be placed in a more general historical context and the precedent for such an approach is in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Construction of a Wall. That since 1948, there has been further massacres against Palestinians by or with the cooperation of Israelis forces, including against Palestinian refugees in the Lebanese refugees camp of Sabra and Shatila in 1982, and in Jenin and Nablus in 2002..The three-week Operation Cast Lead, which killed 1,400 Palestinians including 300 children and hundreds of unarmed civilians, was an attack that was meticulously planned for six months. Large areas were razed and thousand were made homeless, the economy completely ruined. The prosecution added that the destruction had cumulative effects of cultural and religious destruction, renaming villages and destruction of places of worship, troubled economic and physical effects, severe restricted freedom of movement, scarcity and control of water, adverse conditions of life and the impact of the 2006 attacks and the usage of White phosphorus ammunition in 2009 on the reproductive health of the Gaza population. Basically, the harsh conditions of life were deliberately inflicting to destroy a group and the acts are equivalent to those of war with a genocidal intent. The prosecution had shown beyond reasonable doubt that Israel is guilty of the crime of genocide under the Genocide Convention and the KL War Crimes Charter” (Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, “War Crimes Tribunal: “Beyond reasonable doubt”, Israel found guilt of genocide”, Global Research, 25 November 2015: http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-crimes-tribunal-beyond-reasonable-doubt-israel-found-guilty-of-genocide/5359381 ).
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal and Michel Chossudovsky (2020): “Israel is currently in the process of implementing the illegal annexation of Palestinian lands. The issue of “illegality” must be put in context. We are dealing with a broader issue: Crimes against Humanity and Genocide against the People of Palestine. Annexation is a crime against Humanity. And the Western governments which support Israel’s actions or turn a blind eye are complicit. Donald Trump has given the Green Light to Netanyahu. Trump is responsible for supporting and endorsing an illegal and criminal undertaking… Text of the November 2013 Judgment against the State of Israel. KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) today found former Israeli army general Amos Yaron and the State of Israel guilty of crimes against humanity and genocide stemming from the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982.KLWCT president Tan Sri Lamin Mohd Yunus, who headed a seven-member panel, said the tribunal was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that both the defendants were guilty as charged. The other judges were Tunku Sofiah Jewa, Prof Salleh Buang, Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi, Datuk Saari Yusof, John Philpot and Tunku Intan Mainura” (Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal and Michel Chossudovsky, “Israel guilty of crimes against humanity, genocide against the people of Palestine”, Global Research, 2 July 2020: https://www.globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-tribunal-finds-israel-guilty-of-crimes-against-humanity-genocide/5359404 .
[Editor note on direct Netanyahu complicity in Israeli war crimes: present Israeli PM Netanyahu was a member of the IDF from 1967-1973 illegally operating in Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian and Jordanian territory; leader of neo-Nazi Likud Party in 1993; PM 1996-1999; Foreign Affairs Minister , (2002–2003) and Finance Minister (2003–2005) in Ariel Sharon's governments; official Leader of the Opposition in the Knesset and Chairman of Likud in 2006; 2009 – present, 3 terms as PM of Apartheid Israel. Netanyahu was thus directly complicit as a MP, government minister or PM in the 1989-2002 illegal Israeli occupation of Lebanon; the 2008–2009 Gaza Massacre (aka Operation Cast Lead; 1,417 Palestinian killed, 5,300 wounded), the 2012 Gaza Massacre (aka Operation Pillar of Defense; 174 Palestinians killed, 1,000 wounded) and the 2014 Gaza Massacre (aka Operation Protective Edge; 2,310 Palestinians killed, 11,000 wounded, 500,000 people displaced). From 2004 to 2014, Gaza rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza from 2004 onwards killed 32 Israelis, with overall deaths including 27 Israeli civilians, 5 foreign nationals, 5 IDF soldiers, and at least 11 Palestinians, with the injured totalling more than 1900 people (“Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel ).
One notes that the homicide rate in Israel is 24 per million (“Crime in Israel”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Israel ) and with an average Israeli population of 7.42 million in the period 2005-2015 (UN Population Division: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/DataQuery/ ) one can estimate 178 Israeli homicides per year x 12 years = 2,136 Israeli homicides in the 12 year period of 2004-2016, as compared to 32 Israeli deaths from Gaza rockets and mortars in the same period, 32 deaths for which Apartheid Israel exacted a deadly revenge of 3,901 Palestinians killed, 17,300 wounded , 500,000 rendered homeless, about 50,000 Palestinians avoidable deaths from imposed deprivation, and 2.0 million Gazans, half of them children, significantly traumatized by indiscriminate Israeli army, navy and air force high explosive bombardment of the most densely populated zone in the world].