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PA's UN bid may lead to ICC action against settlers
Tova Tzimuki
Published: 13.09.11, 10:44
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31. #2 - a member State status is not retroactive
William ,   Israel   (09.13.11)
You can't become a State tomorrow, and sue for for an action yesterday under the same status. You're new at the "law" thing, aren't you?
32. Donor nations are getting fed up with U.N. and I.C.C.
Chaim ,   Israel   (09.13.11)
The ICC, like the U.N., is a despicable Jew and Israel hating body, which always looks for excuses to demonize Israel. It has nothing to do with the upcoming P.A. statehood fiasco. Israel needs to take on the ICC head on. We have incontrovertible proof Judea and Samaria belong to Israel. Let us serve in on the U.N., ICC, all world governments and media. The ICC will face an enormous backlash, which will ultimately end it's existence, if it proceeds with racist action against Israel. More and more people in the Western World are fed up with the lies and hypocrisy. U.S. Republicans, Canadians and many other donor nations, are starting to ask very serious questions about the continued existence of disgusting organizations like the U.N. and I.C.C.
33. PA Bid Retaliation and Law
Mary Snow ,   USA   (09.13.11)
Appeasement , Peace at any cost, one-sided concessions has always led to war not peace as it did in Czechoslovakia in 1938. Why Are we falling all over ourselves to try and prevent an action that they are planning to do anyway. No more appeasement no more compromise if they precede with the UN option annex all of Area C ad B as well as cut off funds to PA and block access to Israeli Ports. But no more weakness. Eugene W. Rostow assistant secretary of state for the United States in 1967 who wrote UN resolution 242 wrote in several articles in 1991 that resolution 242 never meant for Israel to go back to the 67 borders. He also wrote that settlements were legal in the West Bank based on the fact that the British mandate in 1922 could not be rescinded. There is nothing in his writings in any agreements that say Israel had to go back to 67, and nothing was ever mentioned about land swaps. Short of that I can never support a State of Israel built on weakness controlled by the United States. If the Israeli leadership continues to surrender it will prove in my mind that what I have believed for some time that much of the Israeli leadership and political power brokers are corrupt to the core and that their main interest is financial gain and personal glory
34. #3 - it's a 2 way street, Nour
William ,   Israel   (09.13.11)
You slaughtered families as they sleep and lob rockets into civilian areas.... the settlers burnt a mosque. Which one is the war crime per intl law? We know what you think but no one cares about your opinion, which was underscored with the Palmer Report.
35. The issue of "occupied" land has never really been tested
William ,   Israel   (09.13.11)
Nour and Salma believe, like ACRI, that the ICJ statement on the status of the land overrides UNR242. However, the statement by ICJ is NOT an actual legal ruling but rather an advisory, therefore the argument has actually not been tested against previous laws, conventions, and historical facts. A full litigation on the law for an official ruling must take place prior to trying anyone under the claim that the land is "occupied". Now - this all rests on the UN State bid being successful. If it's not, the "Palestinians" don't have a case, nor a mandate, to continue in the land, and settlers gain the upper hand.
36. #18 - your wet dreams do not equal law
William ,   Israel   (09.13.11)
Israel has already been deemed legal, created on public Mandate land (and privately-owned Jewish land), and gained a majority of global support. With that in mind, your hopes are nothing more than racist wet dreams. And besides, if Israel can be questioned in this manner, so can every other Arab State created by the British artificially, like Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen, etc. No one wants to open that can of worms.
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