New events are turning the tie in favor of Palestine, as the untold history of its struggle and suffering under the hateful domination of the apartheid wannabe state, is being told in the Courtroom of the International Court of Justice of The Hague.
There 52 countries are providing evidences of the last 57 years of oppression, suffering, and theft of the land endured by the people of Palestine, under the military occupation of the isramerican regime.
The request to the International Court of Justice is for an examination and opinion/judgment on the illegality of the settlements, as well as on the illegality of what is described to be “prolonged occupation”, and annexation of the occupied Palestinian land by the apartheid wannabe state, and their arguments and documents are now under the eyes of the International Court of Justice.
All countries have agreed on the right of self determination of the Palestinian people, nevertheless, the US, is asking the court to dismiss the case, as according to its representative, the judgment will hinder negotiation between Palestine and the apartheid wannabe state.
Most of all other countries, starting from Palestine, have so far anyhow expressed dissent to the American statement which would like the court to dismiss the trial, and in mass have reinforced the need for judgment on the aforementioned issue.
To be mentioned also, is that the US, together with Uk, Germany and others, will eventually find themselves complicit in the crime of supporting and economically both financing and profiting from the continuation of the occupation of the Palestinian territories
This is confirmed by the fact that some of them, in all or in part, are continuing to sponsor, arm, and shield the apartheid and terroristic regime, making them in effect, complicit in what sums to a “criminal enterprise” and “complicity in Genocide”
On this unquestionable bases the request to dismiss the case by the US and its proxies must be ignored and rescinded.
The trial is something never seen before, it is as if after 57 years of a reality of violence and oppression being kept secret, covered up, and locked away in a Pandora box, has been founded by a crowd of the best and brightest emeritus judges, lawyers and representatives, which are piece by piece, pulling out from the israeli Pandora box all the hidden pieces of a puzzle, which for the first time out of the box, is being reassembled for the entire world to see.
The belligerent occupation, expropriation and a annexation of the Palestinian territories, the deliberate destruction and dismantling of the Palestinians right to self determination, the deprivation of water, the restrictions imposed among others, also on essential goods, the constant violation of the United Nations charter and resolutions, the continued military occupation and use of illegitimate laws, used and abused as justification for the application of what in effect sums to military martial law and on an apartheid regime imposed on the Palestinian population, are not just illegal, but an attack on decency, morality, humanity, and an abomination.
The mistreatment, abuse, arbitrary arrests, constant terror, racism, apartheid, torture, and everything which naturally evolve from such “by monsters” accepted barbarity, sugar coated by the politicians and mass media with the term “prolonged occupation”, the countless references to United Nations resolutions declaring and certifying the illegality of the occupation, along with the illegality of the relentless annexation of the Palestinian land, constitutes a reality written in tons of reports which bare witnesses to the apartheid wannabe state’s horrific crimes, and as such like all criminal activities or enterprises, can not and must not be allowed to persist.
All evidences and documents, together with the public statements of the apartheid wannabe state regime, declaring public their intent to annex Palestinian territories, construct more villages on the stollen land, and removing Palestinians from their land along with all of their rights to peace, dignity and self determination, are all being denounced by tens of lawyers and judges, before the highest of World’s Courts, the International Court of Justice.
“Below a small example of the terror faced on a daily base by the Palestinian people during the last 80 years of occupation, and evidence of intent to further steal and annex Palestinian territories, by what I refer too as the apartheid wannabe state.”
Furthermore, as all economic profit derived from illicit activities, are considered illegal under both criminal and international law, so must be considered all founds and assets established through trade or commerce deriving from the illegally occupied territories.
All parties involved in any for profit activity in or from occupied territories, which do not have permission to exercise their activities on the Palestinian land by the Palestinian authorities, are to be held responsible for their part or complicity in the aforementioned crimes and as such to be held liable for among others, compensation.
The case manifested by the belligerent occupation of the israeli forces and settlements established on occupied land, must be no exception to the international law.
The court must make sure that a way to enforce it and to punish those responsible for it, will be provided.
The contempt towards the United Nation’s resolutions and to the orders expressed by the International Court of Justice in its provisional measures, must be seen as a material threat aimed not just at the existence of the Palestinian people, but for the entire world.
This threat is made visible by the way how the occupying entity’s intent is so clearly set at at eroding the rule of law, destroy morality, glorify crimes, and abuse humanity, as it unlawfully continues to annex more territories, impose the rule of terror on the Palestinians, and kills and destroys anything and anybody on its path.
Destroying archeological and spiritual sites, along with wells, roads and infrastructure, evicting entire villages to claim their territories.
Territories which it then uses for the exploitation of the natural resources, and for building more homes for its mercenaries thugs which we are told to call “settlers”, hired to frighten the Palestinians, steal their homes and land, and by terror ensure the expansion of its personal economical and geopolitical gains.
Always at the expense of the Palestinians, displaced, abused and robbed of their properties, dignity, livelihood and often even life.
Because of the non compliance and constant aggression manifested by the israeli government towards both, the Palestinian people and the international laws to which its bound, countries providing the text for the judges to use in deliberating their sentence on the matter of the illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, along with the ones providing the laws asserting the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people as well as the ones giving them sovereignty over their territories, and because of the fact, that israel is currently taking actions which are illegal, not just in Gaza but in all Palestinian territories and beyond, all nations must act together and impose immediate arms embargo, sanctions and the freezing of all commercial and diplomatic ties till its compliance to International Law is achieved.
The sanctions must be aimed at the removal of the blockade and military presence on all Palestinian territories, along with the cessation of profit derived from the illegal use of occupied territories, and must see all companies, domestic and non, which are or have been involved in commercial activities which derives from the use of Palestinian resources “without a permission of the Palestinian authorities”, held accountable.
This is one of the requests of many of the countries which have denounced the crimes of the occupation to the Court.
Sanction must enforce along with an immediate embargo on all companies and actors operating businesses from the occupied territories.
Furthermore, in the request, is included that beside the restitution of the illegally acquired land monetary compensation must be payed to victims.
Over half a century of illegal land grab and slow extermination of the Palestinian people, have lead to the ongoing explosion in violence erupting in the Gaza holocaust, an holocaust unfolding in front of our very eyes.
An holocaust happening because of the impunity and trust given to an entity defined by the great majority, as a genocidal and pro apartheid entity which persists in killing and with robbery spree, protected by a State which instead of following the international laws and provisions, have for decades used and continues to use its power to veto each and every resolutions which condemns its colonial enterprise, and thereby allows it to continue to rob, arrest, torture, murder and now, and obviously now, commit Genocide.
As we have witnessed till this recent days, the theater of US politics, is as absurd or perhaps as senile, as it can possibly be.
With the condemnations for the mass killing and for the prevention of access of the much needed humanitarian aid, and at the same time it’s pledge to send more more bombs and missiles to a country which is unequivocally with it, carrying out more massacres on the civilian population and executing a text book Genocide now under investigations, ignoring the Court’s orders, the United States government, as in fact proven its bias to the law as well as is for profit, genocidal intent.
Slow Genocide or quick Genocide, all depending on its arms supplies and everybody knows where they come from and who the arms suppliers are.
Here some of the points pointed out to the International Court of Justice by a few of the testifying countries.
A special note, the Palestinian deposition was compelling and heartbreaking, any how because I am s working on a dedicated article I did not write about it on this one.
You can find the transcript by s clicking here
Here the link to the transcript to the depositions
From Syria’s concluding statement
To the question regarding discriminatory legislations and measures.
“Since its inception, “israel” has adopted various discriminatory legislations aimed to ensuring its control over the maximum geography with the minimum possible number of Palestinians.”
How is shown for example, in the way by building so called settlements which surrounded the once isolated villages, the colonizers have managed devise a plan designed to encircle Palestinian villages, blockade them from transit on the main roads, for to eventually force the residents to abandon their homes and land and leave, for to eventually expropriate their homes and land and annex them as their own.
In this way, the Palestinian territories have been relentlessly and constantly fractured and divided by check points and road closures, designed to isolate them from the rest of the Palestinian territories.
The Syrian representative went on saying, “ The United Nations Human Rights Council has described the “israeli” discriminatory measures as “(1) a combination of movement restrictions consisting of the wall, checkpoints, a permit system that affects only the Palestinian population, (2) and the application of a two-tier legal system that facilitated the establishment and consolidation of settlements, (3) and other violations and forms of institutional discrimination”.
These policies and practices include, according to these resolutions, “killing and injuring civilians, arbitrary arrests and detentions, in addition to forced displacement of civilians, transfer of settlers to the occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories, destruction and confiscation of civilian properties and demolishing homes”.
31. The actions of israel are part of a large-scale, repressive, organized and systematic régime. Such actions have been identified as apartheid after a thorough factual and legal examination by the United Nations special procedures and by various international organizations. Apartheid is most manifested in the occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, where illegally located settlers benefit from far-reaching privileges at the expense of the basic rights of the Palestinian people.
Syria went on saying that the occupying regime, is obliged to immediately repeal all legislations aimed at or leading to the maintenance and perpetuation of apartheid and racial discrimination against the Palestinian people. This includes the termination of its settlement activities, the cessation of all discriminatory policies and practices, along with due compensation to all those affected by these policies and practices, including Palestinian refugees.
The Syrian representative went on saying, “ For third States, they must not recognize this illegal situation and must not provide any help or assistance in any way that may sustain and maintain this situation”.
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Syria then talked about THE ILLEGAL STATUS OF OCCUPATION
On the 36 paragraph. “The acts and practices of occupying Powers are strictly regulated by international law and international humanitarian law. Article 49, paragraph 6, of the Fourth Geneva Convention stipulates that “the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its civilian population to the territories it occupies”.
37. While the occupying Power is obliged under international law to administer the territory for the benefit of the people under its occupation, israel administers the territory only for the benefit of its settlers, and even to ensure the sustainability of the illegal occupation of others’ lands.
38. While annexations or claims of sovereignty over territories under the interim administrative authorities of the occupying Power are strictly prohibited, israel has sought to exercise fait accompli sovereignty over Jerusalem and the occupied Arab territories.
It then went on remind the court that the israeli occupation in and of itself, should be considered absolutely illegal.
The Syrian representative went on with the following statement.
“4. LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR ISRAEL
40. The legal consequences constitute israeli commitment to an immediate and unconditional end to its occupation of the Arab territories in Palestine and the rest of the occupied Arab territories, including the Syrian Arab Golan, in addition to providing compensation to all those affected.
5. LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR THIRD STATES
41. For third States, it is imperative to commit to support all efforts exerted to end the illegal occupation without delay and to refrain from any actions that contribute to maintaining the illegal situation.
6. LEGAL CONSEQUENCES FOR THE UNITED NATIONS:
42. For the United Nations, in particular the General Assembly and the Security Council, it should consider the additional measures and binding international legitimacy tools stipulated in the Charter that are required to ensure the implementation of their relevant resolutions without any further delay, including the immediate and unconditional end to the israeli occupation of the occupied Arab territories in Palestine and the Syrian Golan.
7. CONCLUSION
43. Honourable judges, the Syrian Arab Republic reaffirms the principle that States shall not obtain legal rights from unilateral acts that do not comply with international law. Syria also re-emphasizes the temporary nature of the occupation, and that even if it is a fait accompli, this does not and will not give the occupying Power the right to acquire sovereignty over the occupied territories, no matter how long this brutal occupation lasts.
44. Syria reiterates that the stability of the Middle East and the credibility of the United Nations system, including the esteemed Court, require taking measures to ensure the implementation of all relevant international resolutions to end the israeli occupation of all occupied Arab territories, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions.
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45. Mr President, esteemed Members of the Court, the Court today in this case does not create new rights, but rather reveals rights that are violated by israel, every day since 1948.
46. israel is not only committing the horrendous acts that we have just mentioned, but we are currently witnessing israel committing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip, attacking Syria, attacking Lebanon, and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. In fact, one of the reasons for israel’s consideration of itself as being above the law is that it has been carrying out illegal occupation and committing crimes for 75 years, without facing accountability or any sort of consequences.
47. Today, it has become imperative for all States to convince or to show israel, the occupying Power, by all possible legal means, that it does not have a green light to annex more occupied territories, expel their indigenous people and build more illegal settlements. Most importantly, convincing and showing israel that there will be no peace, no security or stability for all and, equally, without ending the occupation and establishing a viable and sustainable Palestinian State that possesses full components and authorities like all Member States of the international community.
48. The continuance of these violations means more israeli escalations vis-à-vis the Palestinian people exercising their legitimate right to resist the occupation.
49. Many decades have passed and the suffering of the Palestinian, Syrian and Lebanese peoples under the israeli occupation continues, mainly due to the absence of a decisive and credible political will that is keen to implement the provisions of international law.
50. Your honors, today, and for all these reasons, and for the sake of genuine peace and unshakable justice, we look forward to the role of jurists who took it upon themselves to equally uphold the provisions of the law, in order to contribute to achieving peace and justice to those people suffering under the most violent, most tyrannous and most oppressive form of occupation in the history of humanity.
After the statement of Syria, country which like Palestine, have suffered and continues to suffer the consequences of the apartheid wannabe state occupation, I will mention some of the sharp and well articled sentences and links to related laws, from the representative of Pakistan.
From Pakistan
Here some of them.
ISRAEL CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO BENEFIT FROM ITS OWN WRONGS
Here some of its technical legal arguments expressed in its submission.
19. The Court has heard various competing submissions this week with respect to question (b) of the request, but there can be little doubt as to the central importance of three matters:
(a) First, the role of the rules on the use of force in governing the unlawfulness of a given occupation
itself.
97 UNGA res. A/ES-10/L.25, 26 October 2023; see also UNSC res. 2720 (2023), 22 Dec. 2023, para. 12. 98 Wall Advisory Opinion, separate opinion of Judge Al-Khasawneh, p. 238, para. 13.
99 Ibid; see also CR 2024/7 p. 40, para. 12 (Nusseibeh).
100 CR 2024/5, p. 35, para. 16 (Al Atiyah).
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(b) Second, the series of General Assembly and Security Council resolutions that have consistently and expressly called for israel’s withdrawal101 and referred to “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war”102, which is a corollary of those rules103.
(c) Third, the Court’s Advisory Opinion on Namibia is a helpful reference point for the Court.
20. Pakistan hopes to assist the Court by suggesting a slightly different way of looking at things, which leads to the conclusion that israel’s occupation is unlawful and unlawfulness must have
consequences.
A. The principle that no State can profit from its own wrong
21. In this respect, Pakistan considers that a useful touchstone for the Court is the general principle that no State can benefit from its own wrong104.
22. As Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice explained:
“The general principle is that States cannot profit from their own wrong . . . and similarly that rights and benefits cannot be derived from wrong-doing. This admits of no doubt. It is a wide general principle having many diverse applications under international law . . . of course these principles apply not merely as regards treaty obligations but to general international law obligations also.”105
23. Notably, in the Wall case, israel accepted that this principle is “as relevant in advisory opinions as it is in contentious cases”106. The principle is particularly important where, as here, the wrongs at issue are of the most serious kind.
B. The principle in the context of the applicable law
24. Second, the principle in the context of applicable law. This principle is one of the underpinnings of the prohibition on the acquisition of territory either by force or through the denial
101 See e.g. UNSC resolutions 242 (1967), 22 Nov. 1967; l (1968), 21 May 1968; 258 (1968); 476 (1980), 30 June 1980; 681 (1990), 20 Dec. 1990; 2334 (2016), 23 Dec. 2016, preamble, para. 1. See also e.g. UNGA resolutions 2799 (XXVI), 13 Dec. 1971; 37/123, 20 Dec. 1982; 44/40, 4 Dec. 1989; ES-10/13, 21 Oct. 2003; ES-10/15, 20 July 2004; ES-10/18, 16 Jan. 2009; 67/19, 29 Nov. 2012; 77/25 (2022), 30 Nov. 2022, para. 12 (a).
102 Wall Advisory Opinion, p. 182, para. 117; see also p. 166, para. 74. See further Written Statement of Palestine, paras. 2.28-2.30.
103 Wall Advisory Opinion, p. 171, para. 87.
104 See also CR 2024/4, p. 111, para. 25 (Mansour).
105 G. Fitzmaurice, “The General Principles of International Law Considered from the Standpoint of the Rule of Law”, (1957) 92 Recueil des Cours, pp. 117–118. See also H. Lauterpacht, (1937) 62 Recueil des Cours, “Règles générales du droit de la paix”, p. 184.
106 Wall Advisory Opinion, p. 163, para. 63? of self-determination. The wrongs are obvious and no benefit in terms of lawful possession or a legal entitlement to administer the territory could be derived.
25. As to this case, if the Court agrees with Pakistan and with many other States that israel is in continued breach of these fundamental primary obligations, it cannot allow israel to benefit from its own ongoing wrongs by somehow avoiding the natural consequences that must follow under this law of State responsibility. These include the obligations of cessation and non-repetition which require immediate and unconditional withdrawal107, as well as the obligations of non-recognition and non-assistance for all other States.
26. As to the applicable primary rules, it is customary international law and the Charter that govern the illegality of a given occupation at any point in time. As a separate matter, international humanitarian law governs the conduct of an occupying Power with respect to the occupied population.
27. But if the occupation itself is unlawful, that carries legal consequences for israel and for all States under the secondary rules of State responsibility. Those legal consequences are in no way displaced by separate consideration of the lawfulness under international humanitarian law of particular conduct in the course of the occupation, much less by hope for a negotiated solution.
Any other approach would effectively permit israel to benefit from its own wrongdoing.
Those are only a few examples of the many concerns and issues expressed, not just by the aforementioned countries, which are the only ones I am discussing in this paper, as more than 52 countries presented their cases to the International Court of Justice,“52 giving their deposition in person, while few other have only given it under written form”.
Because the entire archive of depositions is of over 500 pages and because it would take a book to comprise them all, I will have to list the rest in my next articles.
You can also read the full deposition of the over 52 countries by clicking on this link.
Meanwhile, the brutal genocide continues in Gaza, and in the rest of Palestine where murder of Palestinian civilians by the rogue wannabe state continues, along with the destruction of building and infrastructure and the expansion of the illegal squats on Palestinian land, which medias continues to call with the benign term of “settlements “.
Images of the torture of prisoners and civilians by the supremacist rogue entity, continue to slip out from the besieged enclave, in which, for the first time in world history, no foreigner journalist has been allowed to enter.
For now, among others over 132 local journalist have already been murdered in less then 5 months, in an unprecedented world record for the Guinness book of death and destruction by wars.
Also record is the number of medical staff killed, and of UN staff members.
Such a situation, in which should the killing would have been committed by any other country on the planet, would have seen armies marching in to depose and arrest the war criminals, is in effect continuing unhindered and unrestrained, turning those countries which shield the rogue wannabe state, into legally complicit in the Genocide and atrocities committed.
It is then necessary for the people residing in those countries in which the genocidal politicians are protecting and or endorsing, arming, and colluding with the Genocidal entity, to organize acts of protests and of civil disobedience, as well as filing lawsuits against their Genocidal and embezzling representatives for crimes against both their oath of office, complicity in Genocide and abuse of power.
Here images from this morning, Palestinians being frightened and intoxicated with chemical bombs, dropped around one of the so called safe zones in which, after being displaced from their home, are now living in makeshift tents.
Immagine yourself with your family in this situation.
And rest assure, to do this to animals would be considered a crime, so this is indeed yet an other unequivocal warcrime committed by a clearly genocidal monsters.
To be noticed once again, as I tried to warn about from the offset of this Genocide, the governing body of the UN is in effect, helping the apartheid wannabe state to destroy Gaza.
Not only, the Secretary General have taken out the status of protectorate from the United Nations facilities in Gaza, but he is also responsible for having allowed hospitals to become “legitimized” targets, as well as allowing for the mass murdering of UN staff members, by him deprived of security.
32 hospitals operating under his watch, have been force closed and partially destroyed, and now, instead of demanding armed escort for his aid trucks, have decided to stop sending aid trucks to the north, and thereby, issuing a sure death sentence for those who remained in the north of the besieged Gaza concentration camp.
https://english.almayadeen.net/in-pictures/top-un-official-accused-of-ignoring-gaza-genocide
Once again, I must emphasize the need to call to the attention of the world, to the horrors and failures of the most devious and disgusting Secretary General in the history of the United Nations, and thereby, for his and his staff immediate replacement with someone who’s at heart and mind the well being of people, and not the one of corporations, global enslavement, and death.
It is not just my opinion he and his personal staff are the key elements within the United Nations, actively working to destroy the entire concept of the UN from within, as he and his staff push on to legalize warcrimes, Genocide.
Genocide, which and he describes, like the murdering of journalists as “unfortunate”,
Doing absolutely nothing to stop it from taking place, and actively working in its implementation as he allows the destruction of sanctuaries and infrastructure which he should protecting by mandate.
When this video was filmed, there had been already over hundred journalist murdered by the israeli bombings and targeted assassinations, yet not one word of blame for the killers, as he blames instead “the conflict”.
The force closure of hospitals, and the cut of life saving supplies to both hospitals and now, to the entire north of the Gaza Strip, are indeed prove of its failures and incompetent work.
We can also understand that, if the situation in Gaza is now so extreme that if informations of people from the center and south, which are supposed to have more access to aid are told to be dire that children are now dying for starvation, the situation in the north, which is cut off from the rest, must be much worst.
Death by starvation signed United Nations, will soon be the reality of the 700000 estimated to be left dying without hospitals, aid, or protection from a self proclaimed supremacist, pro apartheid/slavery Genocidal entity.
As always, action is needed, accountability for the crime of Genocide is a must, and when corrupted and mentally unstable politicians prove them self to be in support of Genocide, it becomes the duty of the people to take them down.
Incitement a Genocide or arming one, are crimes not just under International law, but also under domestic law.
For the soldiers on the killing fields or on the apartheid roads, bury your bullets, smash your guns and walk away from the Genocide now!
It is the duty of the citizens to denounce the alleged crimes to the local authorities and to file lawsuits, this is particularly important now, as the International Court of Justice, as already expressed an opinion in favor of the irremediably obvious conclusion alleged by the South African evocation of the Genocide Convention.
File lawsuits and complaints, demonstrate and call for an end to the genocide and occupation.
Demand for the UN peacekeeper force’s boots on the ground in Gaza and the end of atrocities now!
Stop Genocide and end apartheid and occupation now!
Sol Sön
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Sol