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The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on Monday, hearing the plight of several small island nations helpless in combating the devastating impact of climate change that they feel endangers their very survival. They demand that major polluting nations be held to account. After years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters, the U.N. General Assembly asked the International Court of Justice last year for an opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.” “The stakes could not be higher. The survival of...

The High Level Military Group is "an independent body of former chiefs of staff, senior military officers and cabinet ministers from NATO countries with many decades of expertise at the highest level of land, air and sea conflict and the legality thereof," that includes members from the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Spain, Finland, and the Netherlands.The HLMG has filed an amicus curiae brief to the International Criminal Court, describing why the ICC charges against Israel of intentional starvation and unlawful killing in Gaza are false.Not just false, but egregiously and absurdly false..Within the report, the experts list no...

[Dearborn mayor: ‘The door is cracked open’ for Harris to address frustrations over Gaza.' PBS News Hour. Aug 7, 2024 6:45 PM EDT]Watching the so predictable lines of this pro jihad "Palestinian" mayor, one of his drama lines were that his/their position is "center."Asked about their "uncommitted" voice drive, then about Trump. He reminded the obvious of Trump's actions, such as moving the embassy to Jerusalem, he added about his cutting aid without Amna mentioning Palestinian Authority 'Pay for Slay' bloody problem, of course.As is typical, he cited the ICJ to "affirm" his propaganda. While the screen shows the anti-Israel...

The International Court of Justice has declared Israel's "prolonged occupation" and settlement policies in Palestinian territories since 1967 are unlawful and must end swiftly. This non-binding advisory opinion may intensify the legal and diplomatic scrutiny on Israel amid its ongoing conflict with Hamas in Gaza. The United Nations court ruled Israel's settlements in the West Bank, along with the "annexation" of East Jerusalem and continued control over certain aspects of the Gaza Strip, violate several international laws and norms, including The Hague Regulations and the Fourth Geneva Convention. "The Court considers that the violations by Israel of the prohibition of...

Dr. Guy Bechor: After Hamas brutally beat those it accused of being "thieves" and even wrote "thief" on their backs (and some of them were mere political opponents), a video that the IDF spokesman even circulated [link] around the world, Hamas gave an order to carry out a brutal lynching of them: They were stoned to death by the mob, the most brutal form of death, on video. The beauty of "the day after". After the official Hamas announcement, that it will be the ruler of the Strip and no one else, and therefore will return to sitting over the...

Trump wrote that the documentary was 'incredibly difficult to watch because, sadly, it graphically portrays the death and destruction that Hamas has unleashed.' Former US President Donald Trump urged people to watch the film Screams Before Silence by Sheryl Sandberg, which documents Hamas's sexual violence on October 7, in a post on his social network Truth Social on Tuesday morning. Trump wrote that the documentary was "...incredibly difficult to watch because, sadly, it graphically portrays the Death and Destruction that Hamas has unleashed."

יוסף חדאד - Yoseph Haddad @YosephHaddad: These are not "freedom fighters" and this is not "resistance"... these are a bunch of monstrous terrorists, sadistic murderers and barbaric rapists and it is called "terrorism"!Mar 29, 2024 Link

It's about Islamic Bigotry stupid. OIC/ICC/ICJ - same "difference" by now. What is the difference between the Islamic countries block [lobby] OIC control in the UN and: ICJ --especially under racist Arab Nawaf Salam-- and ICC--especially under Islamic Karim Khan? - the latter is also a hypocrite, given his defense for Charkes Taylor, Liberian war criminal. Just like twisted misrepresented "report" by Omar Shakir apartheid slur (2021), using HRW for his long time bigoted activities long before joining the organization. At least since 2010. _ Related: President of UN's top court has long history of anti-Israel bias: 'Conflict of interest.'....

It was to be expected. It was a long time in the making. The racist and anti-Semitic government of South Africa, a country in decline and on its way to destruction and anti-white ethnic cleansing which annihilated the former Rhodesia which became Zimbabwe, filed a complaint against Israel a few months ago before the International Criminal Court for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity”, and the complaint was deemed admissible by its prosecutor, a British Muslim named Karim Khan. The man named Karim Khan decided to request international arrest warrants against Binyamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. If these arrest warrants...

The IDF has reduced the number of troops deployed in eastern Rafah and the Givati Brigade left the Gaza Strip overnight from the area where it had been operating for the last three weeks. The military explained, according to a report by Ynet, that this was done to allow the troops to return to Gaza and Rafah at a later date 'refreshed' after weeks of combat. Four combat teams from the 162nd Division remain. According to the report, the Givati Brigade's departure from the southern city in the Gaza Strip comes amid reports that Israel will allow the reopening of...

Reacting to UN's ICJ ruling under racist Arab-Islamic Nawaf Salam Expert Analysis (on ): “This is another day of shame for the ICJ in its discriminatory treatment of Israel. Let’s not forget that this case was brought by South Africa — a country disgraced by a leadership that actively supports Hamas and that tars Israel with the defamatory accusation of ‘genocide.’ Israel, which has undertaken a major effort to move more than a million civilians out of Rafah to safety in advance of its operation to defeat Hamas in that city, will rightly disdain this ruling.” Ambassador Arden: "We don't...

The court's orders The ICJ has made several orders including for Israel to: • halt military operation in Rafah • open the Rafah border crossing with Egypt for the entry of humanitarian aid at scale • ensure access to Gaza for investigators and fact-finding missions • report to the court within a month on its progress in applying these measures 13-2 judgement

Why ICC’s ingrained bias ensures no fair ‘trials’ for Israel. May 24, 2024 | Greg Rose Karim A. A. Khan KC, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim A. A. Khan KC, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) The Australian – 24 May 2024 The request for an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defence Minister, made by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor, is unsurprising, but not for the reasons many might think. An integral purpose of the ICC’s political project has always been to delegitimise Israel. A target was drawn on Israel in the 1990s...

OPINION China’s recent outcry over the alleged breach of ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ with the Philippines reveals a profound irony, given the history of its coercion and deceit There is a huge amount of insincerity and gall involved in the Chinese complaint that the Philippines had torn up the bilateral ‘Gentleman’s Agreement,’ between Beijing and Manila. While the term ‘Gentleman’s Agreement’ has an implicit assumption of ‘trust’ as a fundamental tenet besting a relationship, which may otherwise not be legally binding -- to even imagine that there has been any element of ‘trust’ between these two sparing countries, is to put oneself...

Former International Court of Justice President Joan Donoghue says media inaccurately covered interim verdict in January, which ruled on rights of the plaintiffs, not Israel's actions. Video from X

ON THAT G SLUR (PALLYWEID)Omer Bartov can be credited to be the first to come up with the G slur at the Oct 7 war. Which explains why longtine Israelophobe C. Amanpour promoted his rhetoric on Nov 15, 2023, and she anxiously asked him when the G word can already/finally be applied. That was long before Gaza's 'dead baby strategy' human-shields en-masse genocidal Hamas Jihadofascist regime sent it's allies in South African government to file at ICJ. ___ On July 25, 2014 racist Francesca Albanese (who recycled antisemitic tropes in 2014 [TOI, 14.12.22; UNWatch, 6.2.23], her husband worked for Palestinian...

The Government is going to intervene in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice. Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, will update the Cabinet that he has directed officials to prepare a Declaration of Intervention. If approved by the Government, this will be filed at the court in The Hague for the case against Israel under the 1948 Genocide Convention. It is not clear yet what points of law Ireland will reply upon for its intervention. …

Ireland has told the UN’s top court that states are obliged to co-operate to bring an end to “Israel’s serious breach” of its duty to respect the rights of Palestinian people. Irish Attorney General Rossa Fanning said states are obliged not to render aid or assistance in maintaining this situation. He said it was Ireland’s view that all states are required to review trading relationships with settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, requiring them to take steps to prevent trade which maintains settlement activity or implicitly legitimises Israel’s annexation of that territory. The proceedings follow a December 2022 resolution of...

The Irish Government will today make a submission at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case concerning Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. The proceedings follow a December 2022 resolution of the UN General Assembly, meaning they predate the 7 October massacre in Israel and the ensuing hostilities in Gaza. The assembly has asked the UN’s top court to examine the legal consequences of the “ongoing violation by Israel of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination” due to its prolonged occupation and settlement of Palestinian territories. The case is entirely separate from the one brought before the...

Do you hear the court in The Hague? The family of the leader of Hamas receives life-saving treatment in a hospital in Israel! Listen to this story: the whole difference between Israeli humanity and the cruelty of Hamas: While the leader of Hamas is holding 136 hostages, and after celebrating the massacre in Otef, the family of Ismail Haniyeh is receiving life-saving treatment in a hospital in Israel. His sister's grandson, who was born in the last few days in Israel, is hospitalized in Pagia in intensive care