Are We Turning the Corner Away from Genocide and the Criminality Inherent in the Rules-Based International Order?
Are We Turning the Corner Away from Genocide and the Criminality Inherent in the Rules-Based International Order? Why Did the ICJ Put the Netanyahu Government in Charge of Preventing and Punishing the Gaza Genocide? ANTHONY JAMES HALL I’m old enough to remember hearing and seeing frequent references to something called “the rule of law.” Then in the post-9/11 era this vital phrase seemed to go the way of our dwindling freedoms, civil liberties and the tattered remnants of our democratic institutions. In the process of aborting the promise of decent human futures for most of the world’s people, the word, “law,” was pushed to the sidelines. Where once we would have seen many references to the importance of making and enforcing good laws for the benefit of all people, that ideal has pretty much become mute and obsolete from the perspective of our puppeteered governors. When the concept of law is assertively put forward, it usually pertains to weaponized lawfare used in warlike attac...