We believe that this ICJ opinion has effectively legitimized any armed combat action against Israel, including Al Aqsa Flood and actions before then, by Palestine, its citizens, agents and allies, within the period that the ICJ identifies Israel as an illegal occupier and going forwards.
What should happen now (among other things) is that Palestine should put out formal calls for allies to enter Palestine and secure the territory, like Russia answered the call of Syria.
Theoretically, any ally answering this legal request can attack Israel from within or without Palestine and do so legally.
Obviously, the political, access and logistics issues are problematic, but exactly where do the tunnels lead to?
This is even worse for the Western vassal Arab and Muslim states, whose lack of action and support for Palestine exposes them for what they are known to be: complicit with the genocide of fellow Arabs and Muslims, as well as the rest of the Palestinian population.
If they were not complicit, they would've acted by now.
The World Court has just rejected all Israeli, US & western objections, ruled that the Israeli occupation of Gaza & the West Bank, including East Jerusalem (and all settlements), is entirely unlawful & declares Israel is committing racial segregation/apartheid in the OPT.
Importantly, they also ruled that the Oslo agreements do not and cannot trump the obligations of international law, which protect the rights of the Palestinian people.
And it rules that Israel must evacuate all settlers, dismantle settlements and the wall, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims, and allow all Palestinians who were forced out to return.
All states and international organizations must end any aid or assistance to the occupation and must take action to ensure that Israel complies and ends the occupation.
All decisions had overwhelming support across the court. As usual in Israel cases, Judge Sebutinde voted against every decision (sometimes joined by Abraham (France) and Aurescu (Romania)).
This is an historic decision, codifying what has long been known in the international legal community, but giving further support to the struggle for Palestinian liberation & providing another stepping stone in the path toward ending apartheid, colonialism & genocide in Palestine.
Today’s ICJ opinion on Palestine, about which I posted earlier, is also important because it will force heretofore trepidatious UN officials, agencies & spokespersons to align their positions, in public & private, with the Court’s findings. No more silence on apartheid, right to return, reparations, Jerusalem, and the primacy of international law above “Oslo” & other convenient dodges.
Israel's response will be:
UN, ICJ, world is anti-semitic
Fuck you
We kill & take anything
You're all Nazis
All structures, institutions, laws, principles & morals are inapplicable to us, all wrong & anti-semitic
ICJ Opinions don't count
When you consider yourself supreme, you believe you can do anything you want.
The final check on that is to be left to do what you want. Then you hit limits of your imagined supremacy, which include your dependency on all the inferior goy, plus all the goy who fight you.
Let's see how much longer Israeli supremacy holds out & whether the world is convinced of that supremacy.
Spoiler: it's not supreme and only a minority of people are convinced. Imagined supremacy is outnumbered.
QED.
Israel must "finish the job" with USNATO sponsors...
“Finishing the job" carries the outsized risk of finishing itself.
Most of the world wants to see those odds play out somehow, via jaw jaw or war war.
The world's "most moral" and "toughest" occupation force has admitted it's already beaten.
Israel can't calculate odds.
Israel admits it's shit at war.
Israel isn't doing war.
It's doing occupation, apartheid, murder and theft. That's what the ICJ opinion today lays out.
Israel rejects the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that was published today regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Unfortunately, the Court’s opinion is fundamentally wrong. It mixes politics and law. It injects the politics of the corridors of the UN in New York into the courtrooms of the ICJ in The Hague.
The opinion is completely detached from the reality of the Middle East: while Hamas, Iran and other terrorist elements are attacking Israel from seven fronts - including from Gaza and Judea & Samaria – with the aim of obliterating it, and in the aftermath of the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, the opinion ignores the atrocities that took place on October 7, as well as the security imperative of Israel to defend its territory and its citizens.
The opinion contradicts the guiding principle that formed the basis of all the peace agreements and arrangements that have been reached to date between Israel and its neighbors, according to which the resolution of the conflict will only be possible through direct negotiations between the parties. The opinion only distances the possibility of resolving the conflict. The Palestinian Authority, which initiated the move, is not interested in peace, but in slinging mud at Israel. Peace can only be achieved through direct negotiations between the parties, and the Palestinian Authority will not be able to evade this reality by turning to international tribunals.
It should be emphasized that the opinion is blatantly one-sided. It ignores the past: the historical rights of the State of Israel and the Jewish people in the Land of Israel. It is detached from the present: from the reality on the ground and the agreements between the parties. And it is dangerous for the future: it distances the parties from the only possible solution, which is direct negotiations.
Furthermore, it should be clarified that the opinion published today is an advisory opinion and it is not legally binding. The State of Israel adheres to the rule of law, and has an independent and respected legal system. It is committed to international law and it will continue to protect its citizens in accordance with international law.
