tweakabelle -> RE: Furious Palestinians burn American flags (12/16/2017 4:25:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle Which part of "events elsewhere are completely irrelevant to any determination of Israeli culpability" is too difficult for you to understand? The question is whether the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem is legal or illegal under international law. It matters not an iota what happens elsewhere. The question is whether Israeli actions are criminal or not. Wrong. By your definition, the Jordanian annexation is a war crime. I realise you're not all that bright, but you can't point to rule of law when the law isn't applied equally. It seems to have escaped your attention that this thread is about the status of Jerusalem, and Israel's illegal annexation of East Jerusalem. What happens elsewhere is irrelevant. Here's some background to help you familiarise yourself with the issue at hand as you have given no indication that you know anything at all about it: "During the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel occupied East Jerusalem, a part of the West Bank, from Jordan. On June 27, 1967, Israel unilaterally extended its law and jurisdiction to East Jerusalem and some of the surrounding area, incorporating about 70 square kilometers of territory into the Jerusalem Municipality. Although at the time Israel informed the United Nations that its measures constituted administrative and municipal integration rather than annexation, later rulings by the Israeli Supreme Court indicated that East Jerusalem had become part of Israel. In 1980, Israel passed the Jerusalem Law as part of its Basic Law, which declared Jerusalem the "complete and united" capital of Israel. In other words, Israel purported to annex East Jerusalem.[22][23][24] The annexation was declared null and void by UNSC Resolutions 252, 267, 271, 298, 465, 476[25] and 478.[26]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation#West_Bank Please note the UNSC's declaration of Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem as "null and void". That is the current legal status of East Jerusalem, under Israeli occupation, in international law. Whether you like or dislike, accept or reject this fact is about as irrelevant as anything can be. Your ill informed and biased rants matter not an iota - the legal status of Jerusalem has been decided and will remain so until all the concerned parties come to an agreement to change it. It is not the prerogative of a US President to unilaterally alter this status (see below). quote:
Also, firing rockets into a civilian area is also a war crime - so the Arabs calling themselves 'Palestinians' are a group of war criminals. Don't bleat about international law - a concept you CLEARLY do not understand - when your entire concept of the law is something that only applies to Israel. For once you are correct. Firing rockets into civilian areas is a war crime and all those who do it deserve to be dealt with severely after being given a fair trial, no matter who does it or why. However the second part of your claim is incorrect. Only those Palestinians who commit these acts are war criminals, not all Palestinians as your post wrongly asserts. Of course by the very same token those Israelis - members of the IDF - who fire missiles heavy artillery and aerial bombardment into Palestinian civilian areas are just as guilty of war crimes as members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad and deserve to dealt with in exactly the same manner. Given your repeated complaints about one sided applications of the law, your one sided insistence that only Palestinians are war criminals tells us more about the blatant hypocrisy of your rabid anti-Palestinian racism than making any point with legal merit, no matter how tenuous or accidental. As is very clear from the above, I believe both sides have their war criminals. I see both sides as steeped in the blood of innocents and neither has any claim to moral superiority in this regard, as I have repeatedly and consistently posted on these boards. Each is as bad as the other. However Trump's idiotic recognition of Israel's illegal annexation of East Jerusalem places the US in a position whereby it is explicitly rewarding war criminals for their war crimes. This is not something any other US president has been prepared to do, for obvious reasons. It was a rash act by an ignorant and arrogant President who doesn't seem to have any understanding of the issues involved, or perhaps couldn't care less. One immediate effect is that it has eliminated the US from any peace broking role. How anyone can claim this has brought a peaceful resolution of the conflict any closer is beyond me. The rest of your post degenerates into racial smears and abusive trash and deserves to be scornfully dismissed as such. You ought to be aware that those who defend the Israeli regime that enforces apartheid on the West Bank automatically forego any right to criticise others for alleged racism. All your racial smears achieve is to highlight the blatant hypocrisy and rampant racism that permeates your post and your worldview, such as it is.
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