Israel Didn’t Even Try to Defend the Legality of Its Occupation to World Court | Truthout
| | | | | | | | | | | Israel Didn’t Even Try to Defend the Legality of Its Occupation to World... Marjorie Cohn Israel’s system is “an even more extreme form of the apartheid" than South Africa’s was, South African ambassado... | | | Although Israel didn’t appear at the hearing, it submitted a five-page statement which called the General Assembly’s questions “a clear distortion of the history and present reality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” Israel didn’t even attempt to defend the legality of the occupation, focusing instead on why the ICJ should not render an advisory opinion. Israel complained that the ICJ “is asked simply to presume Israeli violations of international law — to accept, as given, plainly biased and flawed assertions directed against Israel alone.” Although consent of the parties is not required for the ICJ to render advisory opinions, Israel protested that it had “not given its consent to judicial settlement of its dispute with the Palestinian side.” Israel contends that the occupation can only end after a negotiated settlement. But as Mohamed Helal from the African Union noted, “To condition the end of occupation on a negotiated settlement is to make the occupation permanent, given that the occupying Power — Israel — refuses to negotiate on the basis of the two-State solution and it has declared its will that it will never accept the establishment of a Palestinian State.” “Successive Israeli governments have given the Palestinian people only three options: displacement, subjugation or death; these are the choices, ethnic cleansing, apartheid or genocide." -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29306): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29306 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104782044/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
