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For decades, Israel ignored them, literally getting away with murder, yet world leaders turn a blind eye to their worst abuses, including collectively punishing and economically strangling an entire people for not being Jewish, besides committing an ever greater crime - violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Historian Ilan Pappe and international law expert Francis Boyle, among others, accused Israel of committing this greatest of all crimes, Pappe in 2006 in his article article titled, "Genocide in Gaza," saying:
"A genocide is taking place in Gaza....An average of eight Palestinians die daily in Israeli attacks on the Strip. Most of them are children. Hundreds are maimed, wounded and paralyzed. (It's become) a daily" ritual, virtually ignored in Western capitals and major media reports, expressing outrage only about rare Jewish deaths and injuries at the hands of Palestinians retaliating in self-defense, their right under international law.
In December 2000, Francis Boyle discussed Palestinian genocide, saying:
"I would like to propose publicly here in Gaza, Palestine - where the Intifada began ten years ago at this time - that the Provisional Government of the State of Palestine and its President institute legal proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague....for violating the" Genocide Convention.
"I am sure we can all agree that Israel has indeed perpetrated the international crime of genocide against the Palestinian people," so far with impunity. In a proper tribunal, Boyle wants it "prove(d) to the entire world" the way Nazis were held accountable decades earlier.
In 2009, Boyle wrote:
"The world has not yet heard even one word uttered by the United States and its NATO allies in favor of 'humanitarian intervention' against Israel" to protect Palestinian rights, "let alone a 'responsibility to protect' " them from Israeli genocide. These world powers won't even "dispatch a UN Charter Chapter 6 monitoring force" for protection, "let alone (use) UN Charter Chapter 7 enforcement actions against Israel."
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