[antiwar-van] Israel and the World Court

[patjohnston]

Israel and the World Court :
 
 
The world is waiting for the decision of the World Court to be announced
on the legality of the Israeli apartheid wall being constructed on
Palestinian land.
 
There are those opposed to the idea that the World Court even has the
authority to deliberate on the issue of this heinous structure and
whether a  decision rendered by the court would hold any authority of
law and have filed statements in opposition as such before the court.
Their argument is based solely on the belief that by doing so, the court
will 'politicize' the wall and that any such discussions and final
decision as to the status and or permanency/routing  of the wall must be
left to the parties in conflict and their negotiating table. 
 
What hypocrisy and fantasy that is.  Palestine has no willing
'negotiating partner'.   Not Israel, not the United States, not the
European Union, not the United Nations and not Arabia.  The Palestinians
have been left to their own devices to defend themselves against the
worst creations of war supplied willingly and complicitly by the
government of the United States.  The collective world is afraid of the
United States government and Israel, characterized by one government
official as that  " ... shitty little country"!
 
Politicize?  What a despicable and self-serving for Israel lament that
is.
 
So, politicize is it?  Israel has been in violation of its very charter
and raison d'existence that allows it to even exist.  Since partition,
Israel has been in constant, intentional, flagrant and calculated
violation of seventy odd United Nations and Security Council Resolutions
over the past fifty plus years, yet the world does nothing - holding
Israel accountable by action, implementing and enforcement of
international law must not be politicized.  It is that good old standby
anti-Semitism that Israel has learned to wield as a strategic weapon
that holds the world at bay.
 
Lie, steal, cheat, rob, rape, pillage, genocide, massive violations of
numerous international treaties protecting the rights of individuals and
governments, including the Geneva Convention - Israel has violated every
single one of them, flagrantly and openly in utter contempt and mockery
of the rest of the planet, save the wretched protectionist policies of
the United States government.  But do not politicize the barbaric and
wretched behavior of Israel.  If you do, duck, because the tired and
worn out charge of anti-Semitism will soon follow.
 
The collective governments of the world are well aware of the plans and
intentions of the Israeli government, past and present is and what it
means for the Palestinian people.   But the collective response of the
governments of the world has been one of denial and out right fear.
Arabia is afraid of Israel; as is Russia, China, the U.K., the U.S., and
as is every country in the world.  The common mantra among them all is:
Do Not Politicize!   But there is another more insidious reason.  The
back room antics of the United States exerting pressure and promise of
monetary, or military aid, to those governments that do not oppose the
actions of Israel, or the wishes of the U.S. government.
 
Israel is intentionally destroying everything belonging to, or any
semblance of representation of the Palestinian people.  At the same time
they are intentionally destroying and killing as many Palestinian men,
women and children as possible under the guise of providing security for
the Israeli people and fighting terrorism.  The terrorism they are
fighting is called revolution and resistance.  The process of the final
transfer is well under way.
 
Lies and more lies ... Take for example the massive Palestinian riot in
which huge numbers of Palestinians were throwing stones at harmless,
defenseless and peaceful Jews in prayer at the Western Wall.  Such a
massive riot that the IDF and police had to storm the Palestinians and
beat and kill to prevent the mass killing of Israelis.  The reality?
Two stones thrown and one glancing hit.
 
Or, that the recent bloodbath in Gaza in which 14 Palestinians were
reported killed and scores wounded, was reported that the IDF came under
heavy fire and intense attack by Palestinian terrorists using automatic
weapons, anti-tank missiles and rocket propelled grenades for hours on
end.  The poor innocent Israeli soldiers had to 'defend' themselves from
a relentless and ferocious Palestinian assault.  The reality?  Not one
IDF soldier was killed, or even wounded.  And the fact of the matter is,
the Palestinian Resistance does not have anti-tank missiles, or RPG's,
and very few automatic weapons.  More lies.
 
How many Palestinian children and youth have been wounded and killed in
the past six months?  The average Palestinian lives on barely $2.00 per
day, yet the Israeli government organizes the robbing and looting of
several Palestinian banks of millions of dollars -- fighting terrorism
you know.  And Israel continues to illegally hold hundreds of millions
of dollars in Palestinian tax money from the Palestinian people.  The
Palestinians will never see the return of any of that money.  None of
it.
 
Now the coup de grace.  Prime Minister Ariel 'Arik, the man of peace'
Sharon has entered into an agreement with George Bush to hold off on his
pull out plans for the Gaza Strip until after the upcoming November,
U.S. presidential election.  That's not politicizing?
 
So the question begs --  When the people object to their oppressive,
repressive, or tyrannical rule by elected, or self-anointed rulers, it
is forbidden because it politicizes the process and that's not allowed?
But yet those very same politicians and rulers -- and the very
distinction between the two are becoming more and more blurred -- can
manipulate, rob, kill, and pillage at will under the protections of
unscrupulous and malevolent political systems, yet the people have to
willingly submit and subject themselves to this treatment and carnage in
muted silence?  Everything a politician, or ruler does is a political
process and is politicized.  Everything the people do is in response to
those political vagaries and it is the people who suffer the
consequences and they are always dire.  Ask the Palestinian people!
 
The World Court will render a decision and the people of the world will
see what that will be.  Will it serve international law and
accountability and thereby serve the  protection of the people of the
world, of which the Palestinian people are a viable and worthy part, or
will the decision be watered down to favor that blatantly belligerent
little country Israel and its partner in crime the United States?
 
Impose complete and stifling sanctions on Israel until it complies with
every single resolution related to its very existence and the securement
and protection of the Palestinian people.
 
Patrick Johnston
VoxRx.org
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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