THERE are at least 38,179 reasons for Israel to end its bloodthirsty genocide of Palestinians.
That is how many Palestinians Israel has killed in Gaza and the West Bank since Oct 7, according to Al Jazeera. If the lives and limbs of Palestinians don't count — they don't, because to the Zionists led by the murderous Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gazans are not human — then at least the 1,139 deaths of Israelis over the last eight months of Tel Aviv's invasion of Gaza should.
Netanyahu, whose sole interest is to perpetuate his hold on power, doesn't care for Israelis either. What is worse, he doesn't care for international law, too.
The International Court of Justice, following South Africa's genocide case against Israel in December, had twice ordered the Zionist regime to stop all and every action that can be considered as genocide. But twice it has refused.
Similarly, when the International Criminal Court said it was considering issuing a warrant of arrest against Netanyahu and others, it issued a dare to the chief prosecutor. No surprise here.
Threats against international institutions and those who lead them are not new to Israel. During the incumbency of chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, the head of Mossad, Israel's spy agency, allegedly warned her of dire consequences to her and her family if she continued the ICC probe against Israel.
Foreign leaders, too, were not spared. In February, two months after South Africa filed its genocide case against Israel in the ICJ, then international relations and cooperation minister Naledi Pandor disclosed to the media in Cape Town that the Israeli intelligence services had been threatening her and her children. Yet Israel says it is the only rules-based nation in the Middle East.
More like a failed state with gangsterish tendencies. It is clear that Israel is not going to be stopped by international law or global institutions. Only one nation— the United States— can put an end to Israel's 78-year-old ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.
The US must, before Netanyahu takes Israel on the path of the worst genocide in history, one that would put the Holocaust a distant second. Infants, women, the ailing and aged, aid workers, doctors, journalists — you name them — the Israelis have slaughtered them.
The US needs only to do two things. One is to stop supplying arms to Israel. Two is to stop giving diplomatic support to Israel. Start with arms supply. The US knows that Netanyahu won't be able to continue his genocidal campaign without Washington's weapons.
Besides, stopping supply of weapons to Israel will be in compliance with the ICJ's ceasefire order. What is more, it will be consistent with the US-initiated UN Security Council resolution of the most recent vintage. The US shouldn't just stop at passing the UNSC resolution; it must ensure that Israel complies.
This is the position adopted by Malaysia and other rules-based nations around the world. The iron-clad diplomatic support for Israel by the US, our second thing, is the other cause of Tel Aviv's impunity.
Diplomatic support by any nation — not just that of the US — for another must be guided by international law. Only in this way can a rules-based world order be guaranteed. Anything less, will neither be good for the world nor the US.