[news] The G8 and World Bank Cementing Israeli Apartheid and Occupation

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StopTheWall | July 7, 2005 As world leaders gather in Scotland for the G8 summit, the Palestinian people and solidarity groups across the world will mark the first anniversary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on the Apartheid Wall. The court, having taken up the popular appeals from Palestine, stipulated that the Wall is illegal and must be dismantled while directing the international community "not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by [the Wall's] construction". Popular resistance in Palestine is gearing up to respond to the G8 leaders' lip service on "support for Palestinian economic development and reform" that completely disregards the fundamental basis of the Palestinian struggle in all its terms of discourse. The contrast between the actions of the G8 and the legal mandates of the ICJ, the countless UN resolutions and the Palestinian right to existence and self-determination could not be starker.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/7/16/7712/30443