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=> Israel and International Law

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Friday, January 7 2011, 16:23:12 (UTC)
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...as Norman says, the so-called difficult issues in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict are really very easy to resolve...he says that the media muddles and complicates the issue unnecessarily....it goes like this...the International Court of Justice was asked to frame the conflict and offer a peaceful and legal solution...and it did so and the Palestinians accepted its findings...plus which,as Norman says, the United Nations has for 20 years at least offered a resolution each year stating that Israel and Palestine must accept the two-state solution only to have the United States, Israel, Palau, the Marshall Island, Micronesia and some other Island-nations vote against...the entire world for, with US, Israel and some islands against...what is really going on?

The four supposed contentious points have to do with...

1. The occupied territories and Gaza and settlements
2. East Jerusalem.
3. Borders
4. The rights of Palestinian refugees to return.

International law and the UN state that no country can keep land taken during a war...on that basis the Court ruled that Isarel had to give back all occupied territory including East Jerusalem.

Also that Isarel was only entitled to its pre-1967 borders...and that Palestinian refugees had a certain right to return (with some adjustments)....so that if International Law, the consensus of nations plus the UN and all major humanitarian agencies were to be obeyed, the conflict would end, peacefully, tomorrow. But it doesn´t...it only gets worse and worse with Israel now and increasingly, threatening to attack Iran...and whose interest does this really serve...yep, American arms manufacturers, again.

There´s nothing complicated or controversial about this...it´s as easy as obeying the law...as all other nations are expected to do...what Israel has done is constantly GOAD and prod the Palestinians into committing acts of, what I would call justified, retaliation for Isareli provocations and then used their retaliation as an excuse to expand the war and of course require new territory for its "security"...it´s a game they´ve played well now for decades and ALWAYS at the instigation of the United States, never the other way around. These new territories have spawned new controveries all their own with Israel claiming that the further resistance of Palestinians to these new thefts of land, prove that Palestinians don´t want peace...when it is Israel stealing their lands on such pretexts that is the problem.

Following international law would resolve this issue.

In defense of, not Israel, but justice and reality, I have to say I can well understand why Israel does not want to be bound by international law...for practically the whole world stood by while they were dragged off to death camps...I can understand why they are leery of abiding by laws when those same nations now extolling law were so quick to change laws in order to murder them...I appreciate every day what an incredible position Jews have been placed in for centuries and how difficult is their situation...for one thing they are a tiny country surrounded by what Christians have made SURE will be their eternal enemies...they also have a low birth-rate and will soon be swamped in their own country by "Arabs"...this must be especially discouraging given what they are doing to Arabs..as recently as the Flotilla Massacre, after the Gaza Massacre...they are growing smaller in numbers, which makes them even more fearfull and yet their actions towards their neighbors guarantee them less and less security...and who is behind this? The United States of Christian Evangelical America.

One thing I haven´t heard Norman address yet is why he thinks the media try to confuse and complicate things or, for that matter, just why the United States backs Israel so blindly? Is it blindness? Is the media anti-semitic? What happened to "the Jews control the media"? Is this worsening state of affairs really going to get security for the Jews of Israel? In other words, who profits by all of this?

I am waiting for Norman to give his reason...I already have mine (money, plain and simple but all consuming too).

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