In
2004, three Arab intellectuals, Jawad Hashim, Shakir al-Nabulsi and
Lakhdar Lafif, sent a request to the UN Security Council, urging the
establishment of an International Tribunal for the prosecution of
Islamist incitement against Jews, Muslim “apostates” Christians
and non-believers.
Back
in the 1970s, law expert Yoram Dinstein argued that according to UN
definitions, terrorism and incitement against Jews and Israelis
constituted genocide. That’s why Israel, with the help of a few
Western democracies, should set up a Nuremberg-type initiative for
the indictment of Fatah/Hamas terror leaders, who should be charged
for inciting and committing genocide. In the name of the peremptory
principle nullum crimen sine poena, Palestinian terrorists, whether
as individuals or entities, are hostes humani generis, “common
enemies of humankind.” The initiative would be a powerful rebuke of
the failed International Criminal Court in the Hague, which should
have prosecuted these leaders and promoters of genocide.
(Note:The
Islamic regimes of the world succeeded in changing the
Court’s
statute to eliminate terrorism as an offense!)
An
example of religious incitement is the fatwa issued by
the Muslim Brotherhood’s guru, Yusuf al-Qaradawi; permitting
the killing of Jewish fetuses, on the logic that when Jews grow up
they might join the Israeli army. Europe is actually freeing these
clerics, like Abu Qatada, who was recently released by the
UK. Satellite channels, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV beam daily,
it's incitement and hatred into European living rooms, radicalising
Muslim immigrants.
UN
Watch, should be supporting the battle in global forums against such
incitement to genocide. In 2009, a similar campaign prevented Farouk
Hosni, the Egyptian minister who said that he “would burn Israeli
books himself if found in Egyptian libraries,” from becoming
UNESCO’s head.
The
general public, human rights groups and the media should be informed
off the untold Israeli statistics: 17,000 people wounded in
terror attacks; 2,000 Israeli civilians killed; 15,000 rockets fired
on southern Israeli cities and the fact that some 40% of wounded
Israelis will remain with permanent disabilities.
This
is an historic battle which not only Israel must win; but also
Western democracies who still have a care about the fate of their own
civilisation! (C) Giulio Meotti.
