Kirby calls South Africa’s genocide accusations against Israel ‘meritless’

South Africa’s filed this 84-page lawsuit against Israel accusing them of genocide Israel says that this is blood liable does Washington agree and where does this put Washington and ptor we find this submission meritless counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever

John Kirby called South Africa’s genocide accusations against Israel “meritless” during the daily White House press briefing on 3 January.

South Africa formally accused Israel of genocide in charges filed at the International Court of Justice on 29 December, citing prohibitions against genocide under international law banning killings or other actions “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”.

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34 comments
  1. Why would Kirby make such a dismissive response? Almost as if the US was somehow complicit in genocide. By providing weapons for instance. C'mon John, we all know the US would never do such a thing because that would be a war crime.

  2. people think evil comes in the form of a scary devil with horns but history has so often shown it's usually a professional in a suit and tie who denies basic reality and facts on the ground in order to justify their heinous actions.

  3. He is just saying what he feels he needs to say in order to keep his job. A total coward without any moral principles.

  4. USA government supporting israel for Genocide of Palestinians so Biden and Netanyahu should be both in Jail

  5. Why ask the people funding the Gncd? 🙄No one believes anything these people have to say. We know, and they’ll never take away that knowledge ✊🏻

  6. John Kirby – always in a state of denial. If he admitted they had merit, as they truly do, he would have to admit his own complicity in this genocide. YOU ARE GUILTY TOO KIRBY

  7. American bombs and aeroplanes killing Gazans in this ethnic cleanse of a genocide, let's see this administration in the docks with the Israeli one. I'm British, Biden will never be my president, and thankfully, what one country does on the other side of the ocean, doesn't mean anything anymore, thank you 2023 for finally freeing us of American influence, we side with the defenders, not the Nazis, not Israel or their lobbyists in Washington DC.

    Why do so many of Israel's neighbours wish to liberate Palestine? Probably for the same reasons the allies went to liberate France in WWII, think about it, Nazi Germany also had all of its neighbours trying to fight it.

  8. Yet said in the same press conference that the US had done no formal assessment of whether Israel has followed international law

  9. Shame on you to lie with such Straits face. The case of Israel commiting GENOCIDE is clear and obvious for the whole world to see.

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