Court hearing evidence of effects of Israel’s illegal occupation
Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour broke down today near the close of his presentation to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as he spoke of the effects of Israel’s illegal occupation in Palestine on his nation’s children and on the human rights of its people. The hearing is being televised live by Al Jazeera English:
The court is hearing evidence from over fifty countries about the illegal occupation. Earlier, Mansour and others had spoke of the 1948 Nakba, in which almost 800,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes with many massacred, and the world’s decades-long indifference – and of the impacts of Israel’s current genocidal campaign in Gaza.
As Mansour spoke, UK news channels covered a variety of items but did not stream the court hearing. In January, the ICJ put Israel formally on trial for genocide and ordered the apartheid regime to protect Palestinian lives. The slaughter of civilians continues unabated.
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Israel is a rogue state, it carries out genocide ethnic cleansing arrest without trial it murders with impunity and our country supports them, shame on us.
I genuinely cannot understand how any decent human being can condone the current massacres and past horrors that Israel has inflicted and is inflicting on the native population of Palestine. The only conclusion I can reach is that supporters of Israel- their Zionist “Friends” – are not and never have been decent human beings. They may hide under a facade of civilised behaviour, enter parliament, rise to the top in the entertainment industry, become political commentators or ” national treasures” but underneath each and every one of them is rotten to the core.
We should thank them, Jews committing Genocide and their unequivocal supporters have crossed the Red line, there is simply no way back to the status quo from here
Legal cases across the world will snowball, those complicit will be prosecuted
Wheres t’lobster plucker?
Did anyone hear the doctors testimony from Gaza on Jock the hats show last night? My missus had t take a pill but that didn’t prevent her tears or sleeplessness. Every media platform should play it and it should be printed and hung in every NUJ building. If you every wonder what the difference between us, socialists and liberals then commit it to memory.
Here is the full text of the amendment that Labour will put forward tomorrow.
“That this House believes that an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah risks catastrophic humanitarian consequences and therefore must not take place; notes the intolerable loss of Palestinian life, the majority being women and children; condemns the terrorism of Hamas who continue to hold hostages; supports Australia, Canada and New Zealand’s calls for Hamas to release and return all hostages and for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, which means an immediate stop to the fighting and a ceasefire that lasts and is observed by all sides, noting that Israel cannot be expected to cease fighting if Hamas continues with violence and that Israelis have the right to the assurance that the horror of 7th October cannot happen again; therefore supports diplomatic mediation efforts to achieve a lasting ceasefire; demands that rapid and unimpeded humanitarian relief is provided in Gaza; demands an end to settlement expansion and violence; urges Israel to comply with the International Court of Justice’s provisional measures; calls for the UN Security Council to be meet urgently; and urges all international partners to work together to establish a diplomatic process to deliver the peace of a two-state solution, with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable Palestinian state, including working with international partners to recognise a Palestinian state as a contribution to rather than outcome of that process, because statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people and not in the gift of any neighbour.
1. “condemns the terrorism of Hamas who continue to hold hostages;”
And the condemnation of the terrorism of Israel who not only continue to hold Palestinian hostages but were also the initial instigators of that kind of act?
Where are the provisions within this motion for the return Palestinian hostages held long before October 7th by Israel. Who continue to hold far more hostages than the Palestinians.
2. “Israelis have the right to the assurance that the horror of 7th October cannot happen again; ”
(a) Which horrors are we talking about here? Are they the ones in which Israeli survivors have from very early on unequivocally stated were carried out by Israeli forces – shelling the homes of their own citizens with tank rounds and shooting their own citizens? Or where they fired Hellfire missiles from aircraft on fleeing vehicles from a concert which a significant proportion their own citizens?
The implication of the motion is that unspecified “horrors’ were carried out by Palestinians when the evidence, along with the testimony of Israel’s own citizens involved, is that many of the horrific deaths were deliberately carried out by Israeli forces.
Are any of the ‘horror’s referred to in this motion the evidence free horrors of rape and infant beheading contained in untested allegations from the terrorist State Regime of Israeli?
(b) What words of recognition are contained in this motion in terms of the rights of Palestinians to have assurances that the horrors inflicted on them by a terrorist State operating on fascist apartheid principles over decades prior to 7th October 2023 cannot be allowed to happen again or continue?
I cannot find any.
3. What recognition exists anywhere within this motion that Palestinians also have the right to self defence?
Or are we operating to the exceptionalist criteria of the so called “International Rules Based Order”where principles and rules are applied selectively to suit particular convenience?
This is a somewhat single sided motion which, on the basis of past Western elite behaviours and policies is likely aimed to produce an end State which is more Vichy than anything viable.
Too little, to late and too one sided. No one with an ounce of integrity would trust this amendment and those Zionist fascists who are putting it forward further than you could throw a grand piano.
Dave – Your political naivety is your problem.
Billy, your disdain for practical realities is your problem and betrays your hypocrisy.
Dave – I have consistently supported Assange over many years, have you?
The only one doing any virtue signalling here is you.
…From the blert who says he ONLY voted keef because “he was the best of a bad bunch”
No, honestly!
Quite. Virtue signalling over the trial of Assange whilst at the same time showing disdain for anything which argues for an even handed approach which is the bedrock of due process and the rule of law redefines concepts such as shallow and useful idiot.
Dave – see above at 8:28pm
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