The UN’s highest court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has issued a ruling on Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories, saying it is unlawful and must come to an end as rapidly as possible.
The non-binding ruling comes amid an open-ended war in the Gaza Strip and growing calls from ministers in the Israeli government to expand control over the West Bank into a full-scale annexation. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel should prepare to make the move in response to the ICJ ruling, arguing it was necessary to “thwart” any Palestinian state.
The status quo, arguably, already precludes the creation of a Palestinian state, with settlements positioned to prevent any contiguous territory from being available for an independent Palestine.
The ICJ’s ruling, which, again, is non-binding, is that the settlements and the government’s actions, including the systematic discrimination against Palestinians inside the territory already amount to annexation in parts of would-be Palestine.
Israel responded with anger to the ruling with accusations of antisemitism. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir appeared to call once more for the annexation, saying “the time has come for governance and sovereignty.”
Settler leaders echoed the call for “sovereignty” over the occupied territories, saying the ICJ’s ruling that the settlements are a violation of international law was itself a violation of international law and the Bible, and insisting that Israel should apply sovereignty to “Judea and Samaria.”
Oye Vey! How can nearly everything be an accusation of antisemistism?! The situation requires realistic solutions for everyone involved.
Hopefully the IDF won't blow up the ICJ after this ruling.
Most significant is the brutally tough language in the ICJ opinion regarding reparations and expelling the settlers.
Any individual or institution can be sued now for supporting the occupation.
Yes, … and (tho Israel has killed irony) on the precedent of the "holocaust industry".
I haven't read the ruling yet, but I'm interested to find out what they consider to be Occupied Palestine.
Perplexity's analysis:
"While the Court does not explicitly delineate Israel's boundaries, it clearly indicates that the territories occupied since 1967 are not considered part of Israel under international law. The opinion implicitly recognizes Israel's pre-1967 borders (often referred to as the "Green Line") as the basis for distinguishing between Israeli territory and occupied Palestinian territory."
Israel has never defined it's borders and historically the Green Line was not intended to. The Green Line, the map color of the collective lines of demarcation agreed to in the 1949 Armistice Agreements negotiated and signed between Israel and each individual Arab state ending the ’48 Israel-Arab war. It served as the de facto borders of Israel from 1949 until the ’67 Six-Day War and continues to be internationally recognized as Israel’s borders with it's occupied Palestinian territories.
The armistices were intended as temporary on the path to creating permanent peace treaties; each agreement was different by state but all, except Lebanon, reportedly at Arab state insistence included specific legalese stipulating the demarcation line was not to be in any sense construed as a border. But the first peace treaty was not to be until Egypt, 12 years on the other side of '67, and Syria and Lebanon have yet to sign a peace treaty with Israel, and the Green Line continues to serve a purpose beyond it's original intention.
“Israel has never defined it’s borders”
Incorrect. Israel agreed to the borders set in UNR 181 as a condition of UN membership, and to this day those are its internationally recognized borders. Areas outside those borders are no more part of Israel than Iraq was part of the US during the 2003-2011 occupation.
Well I'll be damned, you've a pig there the whole world of lipstick couldn't transform and, due respects, I'm way too old to waste time with it.
The 20% of historic Palestine that was supposed to become the sovereign Palestinian state under the terms of the Oslo Accords most likely.
Oslo did not mention the Palestinians.
How have you arrived at that conclusion?
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"non-binding" – read "irrelevant". The only way to change the situation is through armed force.
Non-binding means the security Council didn't vote and approve.
and can't enforce anything. Nothing but hot air as long as the USA is in control.
… or BDS.
The total disarmament of Israel would be essential.
Go go there and try it. Russian police on occasion disarmed Jews right before the Pogroms.
How does that compare with the sadistic treatment of genocide of the Palestinians?
The IDF are sadistic cowardly mass-killers. They use 2000 pound bombs to bomb flimsy tents cities, and white phosphor and cluster bombs against women and children all on illegally occupied territory as the ICJ finally after many decades confirmed. But the law means nothing to the criminals in Tel Aviv, DC, and Europe. You see nothing wrong with that? Next, whatever they say are lies, they have no credibility
left.
It is not antisemitism. It is truth. They are monsters.
Israel delenda est.
Go there and try it.
Symbolic gesture that won’t do a damn thing.
Bunch of murderous lunatics.
ICJ does not have a martial force that can effect arrests. Just talk, talk, talk, write, write, write.
From the Jerusalem Post:
"MK Yuli Edelstein, chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, called the decision "another illusory and despicable decision of the court in The Hague, which was hijacked by Islamists and their supporters, and turned from a court of justice into a court of empowering and encouraging terrorism."
Can someone please inform me what the specific period of time Israel, evidenced by abidance of ICJ rulings and UN resolutions, believed the ICJ was a "court of justice" not yet hijacked by Islamists and their supporters.
non-binding ruling>>
This is a simple issue where the General Assembly votes and take action independently fro the Security Council and the Israeli Veto.
If 173 nations Sanction Israel then Palestine will be enabled ..
Decades of illegal settlements in the occupied WB the whole world knew and watched silently has not changed, why mention it now, nothing will change unless Israel will be at least demilitarized and Palestinians receive international military protection.
That's the only thing left on their card which would vanish soon…!