Ethnic cleansing, vengeance and displacement, though, are other possible inferences from Israel’s actions – all of them horrible enough, but not clear evidence of genocide. The problem, though, is just that the ICJ judges don’t have several months to examine the evidence, he says. He says he has just come from a meeting on scheduling an upcoming genocide hearing at the ICJ. That amounts to 24 hours to prove whether a genocide took place or not.” He laughs out loud. Judges could uphold some additional claims in the South African complaint, such as the one accusing Israel of not preventing incitement to commit genocide.