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Zionists in 2025… “Palestine never existed”
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Scott Ritter “debates” Alan Dershowitz
Apr 26, 2025
The author and Alan Dershowitz during their debate.
There comes a time when the continuation of a struggle based upon the purity of purpose ceases to make sense, and compromise becomes the name of the game, especially when the stakes are measured in human life. There comes a time when engaging in dialogue becomes more important than winning a debate.
The world is beset with a myriad of conflicts that have polarized the participants to the point that their respective worlds have gravitated into extremes of right and wrong, black and white, good versus evil. This is normal in conflict—the tendency to dehumanize your opponent to the point that their lives hold no value, and their opinions are rejected out of hand. If, at the end of the day, one side is eventually able to prevail over the other, then to the victor go the spoils. The winner writes the history, and their position will be exalted while the loser will be condemned for decades, if not centuries, to come.
But what happens when a conflict reaches the point where there can be no clear winner, and the black-and-white, good versus evil struggle simply becomes a human meatgrinder delivering nothing but death and destruction? When an off-ramp from the horrors of sustained mortal combat must be constructed by those who refuse to beat their swords into plowshares?
Here there is a distinct need for dialogue, whether done directly between the parties involved or, more commonly, with the assistance of a mediator.
Scott discussed this article on Ep. 258 of Ask the Inspector.
I recently was invited by Mario Nawfal’s new project, 69 X Minutes, to participate in a “debate” with Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz on the topic of Palestine and Israel, and which side had the stronger argument regarding legitimacy of their respective cause. I did my due diligence, researching Mr. Dershowitz’s position on the issue (he is unabashedly pro-Israel), and critically examining his previous engagements of this sort with persons taking a pro-Palestinian position.
Almost invariably, what was intended to be a constructive discussion turned into a recital of extreme positions by both sides, peppered with personal attacks that did nothing to further the debate. I had originally planned to avoid personal attacks but instead try to engage in what I openly acknowledged was “click bait”—trying to “one- up” Mr. Dershowitz by playing to the pro-Palestinian crowd, mirror-imaging their own oft-stated positions and repeating their time-tested retorts to Mr. Dershowitz’s familiar case on behalf of Israel.
Alan Dershowitz
At that moment I was struck by an epiphany of sorts: did Mario Nawfal invite me on his new project to simply provide a cut-and-paste restatement of those who had gone before? Yes, I could make the same time-tested arguments as had those previously put in opposition to Mr. Dershowitz. Who knows? I might garner more supporters on X and Telegram, and more subscribers (paid and unpaid) to my Substack.
But then I scanned the headlines. Palestinian civilians were still being slaughtered in Gaza and the West Bank, and Israel’s genocidal policies in opposition to Hamas and other resistance groups continued unabated.
Nothing I would say in a click-bait generating “debate” with Mr. Dershowitz would change any of this harsh reality.
It was time, I decided, to break the paradigm of black and white, right and wrong, good and evil, and instead try to engage with Mr. Dershowitz in a manner that was designed more to foster the act of dialogue over the theater of debate.
I knew from the start this would be a very unpopular move; my X follower count would drop by thousands, as would my Telegram followers. I would lose Substack subscribers by the dozens, which meant a significant drop in personal income.
The destruction of Gaza at the hands of Israel
But I could not ignore the hypocrisy attendant to any activity on my part that did not seek to bring an end to the killing in Gaza, especially if I continued to raise the murder of Hind Rajab and her family, and tens of thousands like them, as justification for my hardline stance in opposition to Israel’s genocidal policies.
So, I decided that instead of confronting Mr. Dershowitz, I would have a conversation—a dialogue—where I would respectfully listen to his point of view, and then, void of any hostility or confrontation, articulate my own position, even if it was in violent opposition to that being presented by my debating opponent.
The result speaks for itself.
Yes, I have been vilified by the pro-Palestinian crowd as being “too soft” on Mr. Dershowitz. Many of those in the digital mob who claim to be pro-Palestinian have stepped forward proclaiming how they could have done a better job of attacking Israel and Mr. Dershowitz.
Perhaps.
But the innocent civilians of Gaza and the West Bank would still be dying, and the cause of a Palestinian state would not have been advanced one iota.
Instead, Mr. Dershowitz and I finished our dialogue agreeing that we disagreed—vehemently in some instances—on many of the issues that defined the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But then Mr. Dershowitz did an amazing thing.
He said that our dialogue was unique in his experience in that both sides treated the other with respect.
That we sought to find common positions amongst our many points of disagreement.
And then he said he would like to continue this conversation.
And therein lies the key to victory.
Not a victory defined by defeating or discrediting the other side—that methodology has been proven to be a distinct failure, fanning the passions that promote conflict instead of cooling tempers so that reason might prevail.
No, the key to victory in a conflict whose only output is dead bodies is the termination of that conflict on terms that will not satisfy the hardliners on either side of the Israeli-Palestinian issue. This can only be done by finding common ground and developing a since of mutual empathy as fellow human beings.
I don’t know if Alan Dershowitz and I will continue our dialogue. I sincerely hope we do.
What I do know is that the only path that will lead to the end of this conflict is one that foregoes traditional definitions of victory, and embraces a common understanding of peace.
And this can only happen through dialogue.
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Irish Lawyer spells out Israel’s destruction of Gaza at The Hague
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Irish Lawyer spells out Israel’s destruction of Gaza at The Hague
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP4FR5fYeQ4)
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh spoke as part of the Palestinian delegation at the ICC in their case against Israel, where she went into immense detail on the failure of Israel to ensure the basic human rights of Palestinians in Gaza.
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israel is now seeking to destroy Palestinians as a group including by
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inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their destruction by seizing ever more
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Palestinian territory and by turning Gaza into an uninhabitable wasteland
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incapable of sustaining human life in addition to seeking to destroy the protective application of international
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law to the Palestinian people Israel appears set on destroying the very international framework created to
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ensure compliance with international law and accountability for its breach with
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profound consequences that reverberate far beyond Palestine and Palestinians on
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the 27th of March of this year the last international staff of the United
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Nations Relief and Work Agency left Gaza given Israel’s recently passed
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anti-UNRA legislation no further UNRA staff is likely to be permitted entry
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three days earlier on the 24th of March the Secretary General of the United
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Nations had announced his I quote difficult decision to reduce the organization’s footprint in Gaza even as
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humanitarian needs sore and the United Nations concern over the protection of civilian intensifies.” End quote his
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decision evocative of previous genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia followed Israel’s
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breach of the ceasefire agreement on the 18th of March 2025 and its resumption of its siege and
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large-scale assault on Gaza as had been threatened by the Israeli Defense Minister Israel Catz I
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quote the gates of Gaza closed and the gates of hell reopened
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israel killed almost 500 people including more than 180 children in the
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deadliest 24 hours in Gaza since October 2023 one strike on a designated UN
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compound killed one international UN official and injured seriously five
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others the Secretary General’s decision to reduce the United Nations footprint in Gaza followed days later
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the United Nations itself cannot keep its staff in Gaza safe from Israel
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because nowhere and no one is safe the past 18 months have been the
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deadliest ever in the history of the United Nations of over 418 aid workers
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killed in Gaza 295 of them were UN staff
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most of them teachers doctors nurses engineers operational staff were
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Palestinian those Palestinian staff remain in Gaza their own footprint is
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also being reduced each day as they are injured and
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killed as stated by Medan San Frontier Gaza has been turned into a mass grave
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of Palestinians and those coming to their assistance end quote
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in the words of the secretary general it is a killing
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field since March 2025 Israel has no longer even maintained the pretense of
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designating so-called humanitarian zones in the last month alone it has
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bombed over 20 times the tents of the displaced in Alawasi the overcrowded
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sandy wasteland to which it repeatedly ordered Palestinians to flee a ground
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invasion of which is now reportedly imminent as stated by UNICEF I
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quote “Images of children burning while sheltering in makeshift tents should
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shake us all to our core.” The warnings of United Nations
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officials could not be clearer including by the head of office for OCHA in the occupied Palestinian territory who
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himself remains in Gaza i quote variously “As humanitarian leaders we
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are repeating unequivocally to the world we are being deliberately blocked from saving lives in Gaza and so civilians
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are dying.” As humanitarians we need to emphasize that we cannot accept that
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Palestinians are dehumanized to the point of being somehow unworthy of
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survival what is happening here defies decency it
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defies humanity it defies the law end
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quote before turning to what that law is in terms of Israel’s obligations as a
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member of the United Nations it’s important to recall the reason for the organization’s presence and vital role
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in Palestine as recently acknowledged by the Israeli finance minister Smatish I
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quote “For 75% of Gaza’s population it’s not their homeland do you know what
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their homeland is hifur Tiberius Acra
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Jaffa this is a refugee population that has been in Gaza since
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1948.” End quote those refugees their children and
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grandchildren have indeed been in Gaza since 1948 and in East Jerusalem and in
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the rest of the West Bank and violently scattered to the four corners of the earth since being forcibly expelled from
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their homes on the creation of the state of Israel the mass displacement and dispossessions Palestinians refer to as
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al-Nakba the catastrophe they are the people alongside those
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Palestinians previously long and deeply rooted in Gaza whom Israel is bombing
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starving maming and killing and whom it has violently displaced over and over
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again for 18 long months in the West Bank including East
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Jerusalem also Israel is subjecting to ongoing and intensifying attack that
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same refugee population alongside other Palestinians including those violently
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displaced previously since Israel’s occupation began in 1967
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israel’s ongoing mass displacements its demolitions of homes entire refugee
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camps and necessary infrastructure and its ever escalating killings of Palestinian men women and
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children risk in the words of the Secretary General transforming the West Bank into another Gaza
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having denied for 77 years the right of return of refugees and the perempary
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right of Palestinians to self-determination in violation of international law and UN resolutions
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israel is now seeking to destroy Palestinians as a group including by
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inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their destruction by seizing ever more
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Palestinian territory and by turning Gaza into an uninhabitable wasteland
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incapable of sustaining human life having willfully destroyed the ability
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of the Palestinian people to sustain themselves independently Israel is now intensifying
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its weaponization of the food and relief assistance on which it has long forced so many Palestinians to rely for their
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survival it is also seeking to destroy UNRA the very agency mandated by the United
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Nations to provide them with life sustaining aid and assistance including
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to I quote prevent conditions of starvation and distress among them end
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quote until a just and lasting resolution of their plight in accordance with international law including General
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Assembly Resolution 1943 of 1948
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it is against that backdrop that I turn to Israel’s breach of its duty to cooperate with the United
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Nations article 25 of the charter stipulates that all members shall give
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the United Nations every assistance in any action it takes in accordance with
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the present charter this is a broad obligation of cooperation binding members without
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restriction as to the nature of the action involved or the identity of the United Nations entity taking it subject
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to the action being in accordance with the charter this is reflected in state
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practice including written statements in these proceedings and numerous UN resolutions concerning Palestine
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israel now argues before the this court that the article 25 obligation should be
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interpreted as restricted to certain limited actions taken by the security council where the United States
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repeatedly wields its veto to shield Israel from accountability
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but Israel interpreted this obligation very differently when being considered for membership in the United
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Nations at a meeting of the committee considering its application in 1949 Israel undertook unqualifiedly to I
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quote cooperate with the organs plural of the United Nations with all the means
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at our disposal in the fulfillment of the part of resolution 194 concerning
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refugees end quote israel has also interpreted the obligation broadly when commending other
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states for acting as quote loyal members of this organization end quote in
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providing every assistance to the UN pursuant to article 25 israel cannot now credibly assert for
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itself a different interpretation of the charter the court has itself confirmed the
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nature of the obligation in its reparation for injuries advisory opinion it emphasized the importance of the duty
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noting that I quote the effective working of the organization the accomplishment of its task and the
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independence and effectiveness of the work of its agents require that these undertakings should be strictly
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observed accordingly as the under as the secretary general has underscored it has
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been a long-standing position of the secretariat I quote that member states are required to provide every assistance
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to United Nations entities to ensure the effective implementation of their mandates
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he reaffirmed this just four months ago in his letter to the Security Council and General
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Assembly underscoring that as a member of the United Nations Israel is required
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quote to give UNRA every assistance end quote in any action taken in accordance
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with the charter israel is intentionally and egregiously failing to do so
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secondly and relatedly Israel is egregiously breaching its obligations to
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respect the inviability of UN premises and the immunity of UN premises property and assets pursuant to article charter
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article 105 and Israel’s obligations under the 1946 convention on the
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privileges and immunities of the United Nations
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israel is similarly in egregious breach of its obligations to respect the privileges and immunities of UN
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officials including salaried Palestinian staff international staff and experts on
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UN missions including factf finding missions those obligations are
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unqualified and apply both in times of peace and of armed conflict
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they cannot be abregated by a military occupier particularly one that is
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unlawfully present in occupied territory given that those obligations
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bind Israel pursuant to the charter and the 1946 convention to which it is a
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party they are entirely unaffected by Israel’s announced withdrawal from its
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bilateral agreement with UNOA israel’s violations of those obligations
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in the West Bank including East Jerusalem include its forcible entry into UN schools its seizure and often
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violent shuttering of UN premises and its failure to protect them from attack by Israeli
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civilians they also include Israel’s obstruction or prohibition of the movement of Palestinian UN staff and of
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the access by international UN staff to the occupied Palestinian territory
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in Gaza Israel’s violations of those obligations include its obstruction of
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UN aid supplies goods and equip equipment into and throughout the
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territory and its attacks on UN food stores distribution facilities and
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humanitarian convoys further violations include Israel’s use
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of UN premises as military bases and its violent lethal attacks on UN schools
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shelters and healthc care facilities which have been a feature of every large-scale military assault on Gaza
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since at least 2009 since October 2023 alone Israel has
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attacked more than 310 UN facilities in Gaza many being struck repeatedly
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israel violates the immunities of UN officials including by killing injuring
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and unlawfully detaining them and subjecting them to violent interrogation
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and ill treatment including severe beatings water boarding deprivation of
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food and water and threats of extreme harm to their families
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such violations against UN staff also constitute serious breaches of Israel’s
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obligations under the 1973 convention on the prevention and punishment of crimes
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against internationally protected persons for 18 months and long
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previously Israel has failed to prevent violent attacks on UN officials or to
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prosecute those responsible the Israeli attacks on the 23rd of March 2025 on UN personnel and
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other aid workers in Rapa stands as a stark example
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the slide on your screens shows the mangled wreckage of a UN vehicle crushed
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by Israeli soldiers and hidden in the sand buried alongside its murdered
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driver a UN employee and 14 medics and first responders with their destroyed
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ambulances and fire truck they were only recovered six days later
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an initial joint UN mission to recover the bodies having been abandoned after I quote encountering hundreds of civilians
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fleeing under gunfire the acting director of OCH in Gaza described I quote again witnessing
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a woman shot in the back of the head when a young man tried to retrieve her
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he too was shot end quote as a video recording has exposed
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the Israeli army’s Golani unit responsible for the attacks on the 23rd of March was briefed prior to its
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deployment to Rafa that I quote “Everyone you encounter is an enemy if
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you spot a figure open fire eliminate and move on.”
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It was the recording of the Israeli attacks on the 23rd of March found on the mobile phone of a slain Palestinian
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Red Cresant paramedic that compelled Israel’s retraction of its initial attempted justification of the
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killings that recording of Rafat Rodan’s final words also reflects the sacrifice
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made by so many in Gaza who have given their lives for others after reciting the Muslim prayers
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of the dying and knowing his mother’s heart would be broken by his death he called
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out “Forgive me mother forgive me i chose this path to help people forgive
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me.” As stated by the director general of the
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International Committee of the Red Cross quote “The situation in Gaza will haunt
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us for decades because no one will be able to say we weren’t aware all the
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information is available the images are there.” End quote they are being streamed from the
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phones of the living and the dead
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all the information is available also of Israel’s long-standing violations of the fundamental human rights of Palestinians
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which is a third topic to which I now turn israel’s actions including those
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long predating October 2023 are egregious violation of articles 55 and
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56 of chapter 9 of the charter through those articles Israel quote
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pledged to take joint and separate action in cooperation with the United Nations to promote higher standards of
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living and universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all end
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quote the obligations to which chapter 9 gives rise are not optional
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as the United States explained in its submissions in the southwest Africa case which concerned another situation of
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occupation of Namibia by apartheid South Africa I quote “In accordance with
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chapter nine of the charter states have an obligation to cooperate with the United Nations towards the realization
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of human rights and fundamental freedoms without discrimination for the people of
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Namibia.” end quote the same applies without
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discrimination to the people of Palestine that is because through the
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charter the people of the United Nations including Israel have declared
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themselves quote determined to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights in the
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dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of nations large
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and small end quote one of the foundational purposes of the
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United Nations is I quote to achieve international cooperation in solving
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international problems of a humanitarian character and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and
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for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction end
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quote international law protects and binds all peoples equally
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there are no children of a lesser God yet for decades Israel has denied
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and violated with impunity the fundamental human rights of the Palestinian people in breach of its
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obligations under the UN charter and international human rights law while in
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parallel preventing attempts by the UN other organizations and third states to
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ensure their fulfillment it has violated the right of Palestinians to development causing
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widespread poverty across the occupied Palestinian territory and forcing large numbers of people into depend dependence
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on international assistance and then it has obstructed that international assistance or destroy destroyed it once
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provided it has violated the rights of Palestinians to food to water to health
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to physical integrity to education to property to shelter and above all else
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their right to life including through the system of racial discrimination and apartheid it has
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imposed the hundreds of thousands of Palestinian men women and children whom it has imprisoned many without charge or
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trial have been particularly severely impacted israel’s violations have been
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extensively documented by UN bodies and by Palestinian and international NOS’s
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and their breach is recorded by this court in two previous advisory opinions however even as against that
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standard Israel’s violations since October 2023 have been unprecedented
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the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former defense
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minister Galant include the crime against humanity of persecution defined
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as I quote the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights
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contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group or
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collectivity in addition to the war crime of starvation dealt with in the previous presentation warrants have also
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been issued for the crimes against humanity of murder and inhumane acts
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involving killing and the infliction of great physical or mental suffering or serious injury committed as part of a
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widespread or systematic attack against a civilian population
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the ICC pre-trial chamber considered for example that I quote “by intentionally
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limiting or preventing medical supplies and medicine from getting into Gaza the two individuals are responsible
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for inflicting great suffering by means of inhumane acts on persons in need of
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treatment doctors were forced to operate on wounded persons and carry out
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amputations including on children without anesthetics causing these
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persons extreme pain and suffering end quote and almost
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inconceivably the situation has deteriorated further since those warrants were issued
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as of late 2024 the UN had already assessed that local water and food
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production in Gaza crops olive tree orchards fishing cattle and poultry
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farms had been all but destroyed as had been essential services including
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electricity water and sewage alongside the destruction of bakeries shops and
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trade and now no fuel no medicine no food no
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water nothing has been permitted by Israel to enter Gaza for 57
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days three days ago on Friday the UN World Food Program announced that it had
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now I quote depleted all its food stocks in Gaza
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widespread malnutrition rampant infectious diseases alongside untreated
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conditions and the severe mental impact of Israel’s assault on Gaza together with its systematic destruction of 95%
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of Gaza’s hospitals and maternity clinics and its killing of so many of Gaza’s medical experts will impact
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Palestinians for generations this is not just about Gaza’s present but about its very
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future and Gaza’s future its approximately 1 million children are
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being impacted particularly severely children are literally freezing
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and starving to death they include 79 children including
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eight newborn babies who died during the particularly harsh cold weather of Christmas and New Year gone by
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gaza is now home to the largest cohort of child amputees in the world the largest orphan crisis in modern history
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and a whole generation in danger of suffering from stunting causing irreparable physical and cognitive
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impairments over 15,600 children have been killed
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violently tens of thousands more of Gaz’s children are injured or missing
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and many of those so those surviving are so traumatized that they openly express
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the wish to die they like everyone in Gaza are in desperate urgent need of assistance
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which Israel continues to block as recently warned by the heads of
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12 international aid agencies I quote “Survival itself is now slipping out of
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reach israel’s acts are not just murderous and
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inhumane they are genocidal as the UN Commission of Inquiry and others have concluded and as is the near consensus
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view across the human rights community while the determination of Israel’s international responsibility for
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genocide is a subject of other proceedings before this court the risk to the right of Palestinians to be
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protected from acts of genocide is at issue in these proceedings that is because the court is being asked
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to advise on Israel’s obligations in relation to the provision of aid and other services to Gaza in the context of
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a binding determination by a competent organ of the United Nations being the
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court itself that there exists a real and imminent risk of irreparable prejudice to the right of Palestinians
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to be protected from acts of genocide and that Israel must ensure humanitarian
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aid and basic services in that situation despite Israel’s objections
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there is nothing to pres prevent the court advising on the obligations flowing from that situation in these
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proceedings on the contrary given that what is an issue is at the very least a situation
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of a risk of a violation of a permpary norm of an ergonom’s nature the court
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could itself risk I quote failing in the discharge of its judicial functions if
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it did not declare that there is an obligation especially upon members of the United Nations to bring that
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situation to an end end quote as the court underscored in the Southwest Africa
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case in the context of what UNRA’s commissioner general commissioner general has called I quote one of the
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darkest times for our common humanity that we vowed would not happen again end quote the court might well consider it
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particularly important to remind all states again as it did a year ago in Nicaragua versus Germany of their
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international obligations under the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide
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as well as under other binding rules of international law that brings me to the fourth and
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penultimate issue Israel’s violations of UN resolutions and the orders of this court
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applying the court’s reasoning in Southwest Africa there is no doubt that the four Security Council resolutions
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addressing the current situation in Gaza are binding decisions pursuant to
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article 25 of the charter having regard to their subject matter their imperative
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language and the discussions leading to them those discussions include the
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Secretary General’s exceptional triggering in December 2023 of article
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99 of the charter the most powerful tool available to him permitting him to bring
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to the Security Council quote any matter which in his opinion may threaten the
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maintenance of international peace and security end quote
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israel’s continuing failure to comply with those resolutions with unanimous resolution 2417 which condemns the
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unlawful denial of humanitarian access to civilian populations and with dozens
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of other Security Council resolutions since its admission to the United Nations constitute repeated violations
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of Charter Article 25 reflecting a fundamental rejection of the Security
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Council’s authority israel has similarly defied numerous
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General Assembly resolutions including those calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire setting out the
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modalities for the implementation of this court’s 2024 advisory opinion and I
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quote “Strongly deploring the continued and total disregard and breaches by the
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government of Israel of its obligations under the charter.” End quote
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israel continues to defy resolution 194 concerning the right of return of
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Palestinian refugees with which it unequivocally undertook to comply on being admitted to UN membership and
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resolution ES1024 demanding that Palestinians displaced during Israel’s occupation be
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allowed to return home as stipulated by this court in its 2024 opinion
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israel has also repeatedly violated Charter Article 941 by failing to comply
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with this court’s binding orders in South Africa versus Israel israel’s prime minister has
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rejected the court’s authority asserting that I quote “Nobody will stop us not
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the Hague not the Axis of evil and not anybody else.”
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Just 12 days ago its defense minister declared in defiance of this court’s
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orders that I quote “Israel’s policy is clear and no humanitarian aid is about
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to enter Gaza.” in violation of the court’s order to
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maintain open land crossing points in particular the Rafa crossing previously
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described by the UN High Commissioner as quote the symbolic lifeline for 2.3
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million people in Gaza israel has closed all
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crossings and it has turned Rafa itself once a refuge for almost 1.5 million
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displaced Palestinians into a post-apocalyptic wasteland
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the slide on your screens reflective of the general tenor of Israeli media since at least October
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2023 shows Rafa devastated with the caption “The annihilation of Rafa is
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complete,” alongside an Israeli flag and a flexed bicep
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plans are reportedly underway for Israel to annex 75 square kilometers of Rafa
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1ifth of Gaza to Israel’s so-called buffer zone permanently this together with Israel’s
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continuing maritime blockade cuts Gaza and its people off from direct aid and assistance and from the rest of the
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world in further violation of the court’s orders Israel continues to block
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UNmandated investigatory bodies from Gaza while destroying and burying
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evidence of its crimes despite the extraordinary efforts of Palestinian journalists who are
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themselves repeatedly targeted and killed so much remains undocumented
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as stated by UNRA’s commissioner general I quote I shudder to think of what will
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still be revealed about the horrors that have taken place in this narrow strip of
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land simultaneously Israel obstructs external investigations
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it does so while its officials denounce the UN commission of inquiry and the human the UN human rights council itself
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as quote a propaganda mouthpiece for terrorist organizations and anti-semitic
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Israel haters engaged in blood liels and calls for the council to be quote
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removed from this earth and so to my final submission
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concerning the principle of good faith one of the United Nations bedrock principles set out in article 22 of the
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charter it provides all members in order to ensure to all of them the rights and
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benefits resulting from membership shall fulfill in good faith the obligations
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assumed by them in accordance with the present charter
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the obligation reaffirmed in the declaration on friendly relations was described by the court in the nuclear
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test case as quote one of the basic principles governing the creation and
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performance of legal obligations whatever their source end quote
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it reflects not only the maxim of pact but also that of quihabet camode
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fer debit honor whomever receives the advantages must also bear the
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responsibilities israel is failing to fulfill its charter responsibilities in good faith
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its violations of the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people its attacks on the United Nations and on UN officials
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property and premises its deliberate obstruction of the organization’s work
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and its attempt to destroy an entire UN subsidiary organ are unprecedented in
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the history of the organization they evidence a fundamental repudiation by Israel of its charter obligations
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owed both to the organization and to all UN members and of the international rule
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of law they are antithetical to the actions of a peaceloving
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state israel’s very submissions to this court violate its obligations to cooperate with the UN in good faith
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advancing allegations for which Israel has persistently failed to provide credible evidence
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this is notwithstanding the Secretary General’s call on Israel quote to refrain from such
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misrepresentations end quote given how very damaging they are to the United
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Nations but for Israeli officials damage to the United Nations appears to be the
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point their attacks are not limited to UNRA or indeed the UN Human Rights Council
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israel has declared the secretary general of the United Nations himself persona non grata in Israel accusing him
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of being quote an official Hamas spokesperson engaged in anti-semitic and
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anti-Israel conduct israeli officials demand his resignation labeling his triggering
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triggering of Charter Article 99 and his calls for a ceasefire in Gaza quote a
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danger to world peace senior Israeli officials leveled similar
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accusations at the United Nations itself as an organization denouncing it as quote “a swamp of anti-semitic bile an
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accomplice to terrorists and a stain on humanity.”
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Israeli officials have even sought to discredit this court calling it quote an anti-semitic
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court comprising judges from Muslim dictatorships which has been manipulated
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and weaponized in the persecution of the Jewish people as stated by UNRA’s Commissioner
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General I quote “The international order is crumbling in a repetition of the
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horrors that led to the establishment of the United Nations and in violation of
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commitments to prevent their occurrence the attacks on UNRA are an integral part
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of this this disintegration.” End quote not stopping at Unura the Israeli
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ambassador to the United Nations itself has demanded that the entire UN and
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quote its corrupt courts the ICC and the ICJ must be defunded end quote
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in addition to seeking to destroy the protective application of international law to the Palestinian people Israel
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appears set on destroying the very international framework created to ensure compliance with international law
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and accountability for its breach with profound consequences that reverberate
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far beyond Palestine and Palestinians if these venerable institutions are to
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survive and if in the words of the UN relief chief quote “The basic principles
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of law still count the international community must act while it can to
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uphold them.” End quote mr president members of the court
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the international community is so acting in seeking the court’s advice on these matters having regard to the court’s
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prior vital unwavering reaffirmation of international law in its 2024 advisory
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opinion mindful of the former Secretary General’s description of the United Nations as quote the hope and home of
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all humankind with the charter at its compass end quote the state of Palestine
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respectfully calls on this court to provide this further advisory opinion
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urgently to reset that compass in the continuing desperate hope that
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international law might finally prevail
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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:
We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury, proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, maybe being a BRICS partner…
Ikus Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka
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1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)
