Shocking failure of our Prime Minister to understand the bare basics of the International Court of Justice interim orders which put Israel on probation.

We’re shocked on the full failure of the Prime Minister to know the naked fundamentals of the interim orders issued final week by the Worldwide Court docket of Justice of their binding interim orders on South Africa’s declare of Israeli genocide in opposition to Palestinians.

New Zealand has a weighty ethical responsibility and a binding obligation not simply to sentence genocide however to behave to PREVENT the crime of genocide. The court docket makes this clear as does the wording of the Genocide Conference.

The ICJ has put Israel on probation. The apartheid state has a month to report again to clarify how they’re assembly the provisions of the genocide conference. Primarily the court docket has informed them to cease killing Palestinians however to this point they’ve ignored the interim orders.

The Prime Minister is unaware of any of this as his blundering reply to a query in parliament on Wednesday afternoon reveals.

To date the federal government has made no clear assertion on the court docket’s determination and has not defined how we are going to work to forestall genocide in Gaza as we’re legally sure to do. All we’ve up to now are a few rudimentary tweets from Overseas Minister Winston Peters.

We aren’t taking motion to carry Israel to the phrases of the genocide conference or for any of its conflict crimes corresponding to “collective punishment” of a civilian inhabitants, withholding meals, water and shelter and denying medical therapy.

Mr Luxon has condemned the killing of Israeli civilians however has refused to sentence the killing of Palestinian civilians and even to name for a right away everlasting ceasefire.

The federal government is engaged in a tawdry show of Eurocentrism and anti-Palestinian racism.