What more is expected after the International Court of Justice ruling?

With the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accepting South Africa's application, the "case of genocide in Gaza," the attempted genocide that has been continuing for 112 days has begun to be tried, while it is still being carried out, as deserving "to be regarded as genocide." The Court's acceptance to hear the case on the merits and the rejection of Israel's request that the case be dismissed are said to be based on the fact that the evidence South Africa presented when filing the case was "sufficient to plausibly prove that it is genocide."

The strange situation that has arisen is that the Court of Justice, which in any case cannot stop it because of its actual power and did not request this in its decision either, will hear its case during the ongoing act of genocide. Thus, unless Israel is influenced by the ICJ's decision and immediately goes to a ceasefire and ends its action, which nobody expects it to do, it will continue to provide evidence against itself to the court, because everything it does is in plain sight and every act of it is being recorded.

At first glance this situation can be attributed to Israel's usual insolence and indifference. But in fact neither Israel nor the powers behind it have the luxury of not taking such a decision seriously at all.

For Israel, which has carefully established all its legitimacy up to now on the fact that the Jews were subjected to genocide, to begin today to be tried, caught red-handed with the crime of genocide, means that the world has begun to collapse upon it.

Pay no attention at all to the pessimistic talk that this decision will have no effect and that, as long as the US stands behind Israel, no effective sanction against it will come into question. The turning of the world upside down begins above all with the changing of the narrative. And the strongest support of narratives is powerful realities that are lived. A new factual-real narrative began to be rubbed in the world's face with the 7 October Al-Aqsa Flood operation. This process has decoded all the ciphers of the occupying, genocidal Zionist world order that Israel built by taking all the world's powers behind it and that has been going on for 108 years, has thrown all the feelings of that order into upheaval and struck terror into hearts, and has subjected its philosophical construction (with its Enlightenment, its modernism, its secularism) to deconstruction. Perhaps one of the most effective steps of this deconstruction is that they are being made the addressee of a "genocide" accusation that even the ICJ, established in their own world, could not ignore.

From this hour on, the narrative is doomed to be turned upside down. In effect, this ICJ decision will not bind only Israel. Aid given to a country that commits the crime of genocide, every kind of contact established with it, and even, going further, those who stay silent when this crime is committed, can be considered complicit in this crime. The curse that fell upon the Nazis will now fall upon Israel and its supporters. The crime of genocide committed by Israel, with the US first among them, will today be written on the face of states or state officials who dominate the world merely with their crude material power, as a black stain. Unless the course of events destroys it entirely, the only thing awaiting Israel will be nothing other than a dishonored, disreputable, humiliated solitude.

"These are the days of God; We cause them to alternate among people," says our Lord in His Book. In the alternation of this turn of fortune there are wisdoms that only He can know. Many of them we too can understand when we use our reason, when we are truly open to taking lessons.

In the end, in this process we Muslims too are spending our time with the shame of the fact that our fault and our deficiency are beyond measure, and that however much we rejoice at these successes, however much we write and draw, shout and cry out, say that we are with the Palestinians, we cannot take any effective step to stop the genocide.

The ICJ decision, the demonstrations of solidarity shown in every part of the world for Palestine, and the movements protesting genocidal Israel and its supporters, all are undoubtedly very valuable, but that what is truly decisive in all these processes is the resistance of the brave men in Gaza and the people of Gaza who endure with patience the oppression they are subjected to because of that resistance is their greatness, but it is also an expression of our helplessness, which increases our shame.

In the early stages of the event, Abu Ubaida, in a statement, told the leaders of the Islamic world and especially the Arab world: "God forbid, we are not asking you for military aid or the like; never mind, we will bear the whole burden of this war. At least refuse the duty of obstruction that falls to you in delivering the aid that will come to the people of Gaza, and open the way for the aid, and if you do not have the strength even for this..." What more can anyone say to these leaders? There, each passes himself off as the king, president, emir, or leader of a country.

In Gaza the Palestinian brave men are showing the necessary resistance to the occupation and the occupier's genocidal savage attacks, they are fighting their heroic fight. They are doing this protecting the honor and dignity of all humanity, and they are not asking for any aid. But 2.5 million people, hungry, in the open, thirsty, and under the rain, are being subjected to genocide not only by Israel but also by the leaders of the Islamic world who stand by and watch them in this condition.

Now that the ICJ's present decision on genocide has come out, this situation in fact constitutes a state of complicity in crime for which those who remain silent, those who do not deliver the aid even though they could, will also be blamed.

Moreover, even if the court decision cannot stop the genocide right now, it also issues an open invitation to interventions that would remedy the lack of humanitarian aid that leads to genocide.

Who is waiting for what? Why is the Rafah gate not being opened? Who is waiting for what for an initiative of humanitarian aid by sea or air?