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By Stephanie van den Berg, Bassam Masoud and Nidal al-Mughrabi THE HAGUE/GAZA (Reuters) -The World Court ordered Israel on Friday to prevent acts of genocide against the Palestinians and do more to help civilians, although it stopped short of ordering a ceasefire as requested by South Africa. While the ruling denied Palestinian hopes of a binding order to halt the war in Gaza, it also represented a legal setback for Israel, which had hoped to throw out a case brought under the genocide convention established in the ashes of the Holocaust. The court found that Palestinians were protected under …
Israel is not committing genocide. The Palestinian population has grown since 1948. If anything, the Palestinian leaders are committing cultural genocide by denying the historicity of Jews’ connection to Eretz Israel.