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Political analysts and experts agreed on the importance of the complaint filed by Nicaragua against Germany before the International Court of Justice, which accuses it of facilitating the commission of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and its impact on the international mood as it is the first bullet targeting countries that support Israel.

The International Court of Justice began public hearings related to a complaint filed by Nicaragua accusing Berlin of facilitating the commission of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. The intended facilitation is to continue to support Tel Aviv with various types of weapons, knowing of the high possibility of committing a dangerous genocide against the people of Gaza.

Nicaragua's legal team confirmed in its plea that German military support for Israel had increased tenfold over the past few months, and that Berlin had exported military equipment to Tel Aviv worth 326 million euros in 2023 alone, calling on the International Court of Justice to impose on Germany to stop its military support for Israel.

Dr. Saad Jabbar, an expert in international law, believes that this case is extremely important, because it was built on the South African case, and thus it serves as a first bullet that helps prevent countries facilitating the process of genocide in Gaza, because the decision of the International Court of Justice confirmed the presence of indicators Strong that Israel is committing genocide.

He added - during his participation in the program “Gaza... What Next?” - that this case serves as a warning to all countries that facilitate, with weapons or funding, the occupation’s aggression in Gaza, because the genocide they commit is carried out by means of weapons, as it is the primary tool in committing these crimes.

Fear of supporting countries

The expert in international law expected that all countries supporting Israel will fear these legal repercussions during the next stage, because there is a compensatory responsibility on the state if the accusation is confirmed, and there is individual criminal responsibility on those responsible, pointing out that most Western countries have been warned by their legal advisors of the consequences. Continue to support Israel.

The complaint filed by Nicaragua is based on the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice, which is the highest judicial body of the United Nations. It issues binding decisions but does not have the necessary tools to implement and impose them on the ground.

In turn, the writer and political analyst Ahmed Al-Hila believes that this lawsuit would help change the international mood, attributing this to the fact that it is a complaint being considered by the highest judicial authority in the world, which goes beyond accusing Israel of being the perpetrator of genocide to putting the supporting countries in the dock.

In this context, he pointed to decisions issued by Canada, the Netherlands, and Italy to limit support for Israel with weapons or spare parts, which reflects the embarrassment these countries fell into despite their close relations with Tel Aviv due to the International Court of Justice’s decision.

Al-Haila confirms that the world is now viewing what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip, not only as an assault on civilians in the Strip, but also as an assault on human values, which means that the Western system’s continued support of this genocide with money and weapons is a paving the way for the collapse of these values ​​that It is assumed that the world agrees on it.

He pointed out that the observed changes in American public opinion represent an important and unprecedented shift, as it comes in an environment that has been friendly to Israel over the course of decades, and would threaten the chances of US President Joe Biden and his administration in the upcoming elections, and no evidence of this is his loss of 9 points during The past months.

Israel is angry

While Dr. Muhannad Mustafa, an academic and expert in Israeli affairs, confirms that Israel gives utmost importance to such calls at the International Court of Justice, and if it shows recklessness and underestimation of their repercussions, in fact it deals with them with extreme sensitivity and anger, because it affects its narrative based on being a victim.

It also - according to Mustafa - undermines its superior moral discourse on the Palestinians, and its interests with the countries that support it, as civil society is severely affected, even if the impact does not appear on the official side in those countries, which puts it under severe pressure, contrary to what it is trying to show. with it.

The expert in Israeli affairs points out that internal estimates in Israel believe that it has become internationally isolated, especially at the popular level and civil society organizations, and its rhetoric in which it tries to accuse critics of being anti-Semitic is no longer effective, which represents one of the important transformations in this stage. current.

He believes that this is one of the repercussions of what South Africa did in the International Court of Justice, which will be strengthened after this new lawsuit, pointing out in this context that the attempts of European regimes to enact laws in order to expand the concept of Semitism reflect the fragility of Israel.

Source: Al Jazeera