Liable of Arrest and Punishment: Heads of State, Heads of Government Supportive of Genocide against the People of Palestine, Genocide Convention. Articles I, II, III and IV
مسؤول عن الاعتقال والمعاقبة: رؤساء الدول ورؤساء الحكومات الداعمة للإبادة الجماعية ضد شعب فلسطين، المواد الأولى والثانية والثالثة والرابعة
Introduction
As we recall, The Republic of South Africa —referring to Article II of the Genocide Convention–, stated that the crimes committed by the State of Israel “are genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group. …”.
The acts outlined by South Africa “are all attributable to [The state of] Israel, which has failed to prevent genocide and is committing genocide in manifest violation of the Genocide Convention. … “ (emphasis added)
(See The Republic of South Africa’s 84 page document submitted to the ICJ)
Article II of the Genocide Convention reads as follows. It esssentially defines acts of genocide, all of which apply to Palestine.
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
A Part from Israel: “Who are The Actors of Genocide”. The Role of Our Governments.
The answer to this question is addressed in Articles III and IV of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
It is not solely Israel which is waging the genocide. Western governments have formally endorsed Israel. They have provided financial support as well as military aid. US-NATO is a partner of Israel in this criminal endeavour.
Western governments are routinly arresting citizens who are protesting against genocide. Millions of people throughout the European Union and around the World have expressed their solidarity with Palestine.
Article III: “Complicity in Genocide”
The Convention is very explicit: it defines the notion of complicity in Articles III and IV.
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
Several NATO member states have collaborated directly with Israel’s IDF in military and Intelligence operations. They are complicit in the act of genocide.
Complicity is Punishable
Article IV is very explicit.
Article IV:
“Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals”.
In this regard, heads of State and heads of government who have formally endorsed the conduct of Genocide by Israel, are categorized as “Constitutionally responsible rulers” and “public officials”. The latter are “Complicit in Genocide” under Article III section e} and can be arrested under the clauses of Article VI
Complicity in Genocide is Punishable under Article V and VI
Article V: (see below). enact
“the necessary legislation to give effect to the provisions of the present Convention, and, in particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III”.
Under Article VI (see below), they are liable for arrest and punishment: “tried by a competent Tribunal…”
Article VI
“Persons charged with genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III shall be tried by a competent tribunal of the State in the territory of which the act was committed, or by such international penal tribunal as may have jurisdiction with respect to those Contracting Parties which shall have accepted its jurisdiction.”
The Above Analysis of the Genocide Convention
Providing the Peace Movement with the means to confront national governments and question their political legitimacy.
Legal procedures against politicians who are “complicit in genocide” under Article III (e) should be contemplated.
[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6_9a_tKWQFQ]
Video: Francesca Albanese says that PM Keir Starmer “Must be Investigated Over Gaza”
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fsEHacDBC4]
Declassified DC. UK
Netanyahu and the 2001 Planning of Genocide
“The real (and deceitful) face of Binyamin Netanyahu” was filmed secretly in 2001, during Bibi’s visit to the home of a Jewish family in the settlement of Ofra in the Northern occupied West Bank.
“He confirmed his plan to conduct a large-scale attack on the Palestinian Authority, to induce fear among Palestinians, boldly expressing confidence that 80% of Americans support Israel. He said,
“America is something that you can easily maneuver, and move in the ‘right’ direction.”
This secret video recorded in 2001, reveals Netanyahu’s criminal intent to carry out A Genocide against the People of Palestine.
click here link to Haaretz, 15 July 2010
Secret 2001 Video
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-5hUG6Os68]
The Video was filmed Secretely in 2001
“Crimes against Humanity’ under Nuremberg and the 1948 Genocide Convention. “The Palestinian Holocaust”
According to the my life-long friend the late Prof. Francis Boyle (May His Legacy Live Forever):
“The paradigmatic example of “crimes against humanity” is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish people. This is where the concept of “crimes against humanity” came from.
And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission determined that Israel is currently doing to the Palestinian people: crimes against humanity.
Expressed in legal terms, this is just like what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews.
That is the significance of the formal determination by the U.N. Human Rights Commission that Israel has inflicted “crimes against humanity” upon the Palestinian people.
The Commission chose this well-known and long-standing legal term of art quite carefully and deliberately based upon the evidence it had compiled.
Furthermore, the Nuremberg “crimes against humanity” are the historical and legal precursor to the international crime of genocide as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The theory here was that what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish people was so horrific that it required a special international treaty that would codify and universalize the Nuremberg concept of “crimes against humanity.” And that treaty ultimately became the 1948 Genocide Convention.” (Francis Boyle, emphasis added)
What the Nazis did to the Jewish People.
What the Zionist State of Israel has done to the People of Palestine.
5 July 2025
Source: michelchossudovsky.substack.com