GUEST BLOG: Patrick John O’Dea – Old Habits are Hard to Break

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Is Germany – a country responsible for committing two genocides, intervening to permit a third?

Why is Namibia furious at Germany’s ICJ intervention supporting Israel?

Aljazeera host of “Counting The Cost” Adrian Finighan
@1:33 minutes
“….in 2021 Berlin acknowledged committing genocide in Namibia”
“..shouldn’t a country responsible for two genocides be actively looking to prevent a third?”

@4:35 minutes
“Absolutely Adrian I cannot agree more with you….
…..particularly problematic is the way that they framed South Africa’s complaint as an instrumentalization of the international court of justice. Which means basically it [Germany] thinks it’s an illegitimate suit, it’s something that should not happen.
After all we’ve heard during the pleadings in the past days last week. That is quite a strong statement. Therefore, I’m absolutely not surprised by the reaction on the on the side of Namibia”

Namibia has requested that Germany withdraw their intervention in support of Israel at the World Court, You would have thought that Germany would be the last country that should be trying to stop a court case into genocide.

The people of Namibia suffered a genocide at the hands of the German colonial empire. Germany has admitted to it. Germany has zero right to be supporting the slaughter of another indigenous people, at the hand of another occupying colonial power.

32 states intervened in the case of Ukraine vs. Russia, to argue the merits of Ukraine’s case against Russia alleging Ukraine committed genocide in the Donbas.

But only one state, Germany, has so far put its name down to intervene in support of Israel at the United Nations International Court of Justice, the ICJ, also known as the World Court. Not even the US, Israel’s biggest backer, has put their hand up to support Israel in court.

Why is that?

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The state of Israel was founded after WWII with the connivance of the US who were trying to form a counterweight to the power and influence of the British Empire in the Middle East.
At the end of the war, displaced Jewish refugees favoured destination of choice was America. As well as making it hard for displaced persons to enter the US. The US authorities gave Zionists access to the refugee camps in US zone of control in Europe to gather recruits to go to Palestine. The British imperialists tried to resist the founding of the state of Israel and interned the Jewish refugees that the US had incited to go to Israel on the island of Cypress.
The Zionists have always been a proxy force for American imperialism in the Middle East.

The last gasp of the British Empire was the Suez Crisis. After that the US became the dominant Western imperialist power in the region. Israel became US imperialism’s unsinkable aircraft carrier threatening any Arab country that dared step out of line.

While the victorious super powers were squabbling over the spoils of war, what about the defeated imperialist powers Germany, Italy, Japan? They became junior partners to the new global hegemon.

When you can’t do dirty work yourself you get someone else to do it.

Both Germany and Japan have been called on to put pressure on the World Court to to make sure their judges on the ICJ vote the way the US wants.
The shame on these countries is that they have chosen to do it.

Footnote:

Growth expansion imperialism, colonialism is written into the DNA of capitalism, every imperialist country commits massacres and genocides to maintain their rule.
New Zealand is no exception.

 

Patrick O’Dea is a staunch Unionist and human rights activist

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11 COMMENTS

  1. The South African trial will fail, it was more of a ‘look…look what we are doing’ to raise it’s international profile.

    Waste of time and money, go Israel….you will succeed in Gaza and in this trial.

    • Israel is getting their arse handed to them in Gaza, its why they are murdering civilians, because Hamas is a better trained military force.

      The trial will likely go Israels way, but not because they are right, or innocent, but because over half of the nations on the judges panel will vote from economic pressure. Of the five judges from the security council, only France might vote against Israel, both China and Russia will vote Israels way, not because they agree with Israels defence, but because they have allegations of genocide and war crimes against them. So its in their best interest to discourage others from using the ICJ to get any form of justice.

      Just as America and the UK cannot defeat Ansar Allah in Yemen, Israel cannot beat Hamas in Gaza. Israel will lose this war, and long term will end up a pariah state, considered a rogue state, that no one apart from the yanks will want to have anything to do with.

  3. Oh dear Mr O’Dea, you seem to have forgotten about that other defeatist imperial power. Remember the “sick man of Europe,” the empire that had colonised large tracts of the Balkans and stolen land from the indigenous Slavs? The one that then proceeded to genocide the Armenians of Anatolia and massacre hundreds of thousands of Assyrian/Syriac and Greek Christians to create the ethnonationalist state of Turkey. A genocide much more brutal than that of Namibia and one that to this day Turkey refuses to acknowledge.
    Yes, yes that genocide Mr O’Dea. The one that the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husseini was privy to and who revealed its dirty little atrocities to Führer Hitler. In fact there’s quite the connection between Germany, The Ottoman Empire (subsequently The Republic of Turkey) and the Armenians, portrayed by Germany as “the Jews of the Orient” isn’t there Mr O’Dea. Not that many people are aware of this.
    When you can’t do dirty work yourself you get someone else to do it. Just ask. I’ll happily expose the dirtiest genocide of the twentieth century for you. It’s not all to do with the DNA of Capitalism.

  4. The illegal zionist occupation of Germany must end, just as the illegal zionist occupation of Palestine must end.

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      • Dear Krystina I must apologise for this commenter’s rudeness. We have Google Translate to help us get over our anglophone arrogance and handicap.
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  6. Dear Krystina I must apologise for this commenter’s rudeness. We have Google Translate to help us get over our anglophone arrogance and handicap.
    I think it’s cool that this New Zealand Blog gets an overseas audience. Thank you.

    Google Translate
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    Google’s service, offered free of charge, instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.

  7. Dear Krystina I must apologise for this commenter’s rudeness. We have Google Translate to help us get over our anglophone arrogance and handicap.
    I think it’s cool that this New Zealand Blog gets an overseas audience. Thank you.

    Google Translate
    https://translate.google.com
    Google’s service, offered free of charge, instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.

    • Oops posted twice my internet connection is very slow. And I thought it hadn’t been posted, so I did it twice. Sorry ’bout that

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