Why the continuous bombardment of Palestine, and the invasions of Lebanon and Syria, show that international law is a selective power wielded by colonial powers.
Netanyahu has turned Israel into a terrorist state intent on exterminating Palestinians to create Greater Israel.
It is a strategy which makes Israel less safe, not more. Every time an Israeli kills a Palestinian, it causes more people to hate Israelis - a self-defeating strategy.
I would caution you not to make the mistake of placing the blame on Netanyahu and the current political system in Israel. The extermination of the native inhabitants of Palestine was, and continues to be, the most important principle since Zionism was conceived as an aspiration for the Ashkenazi Jew. The dehumanizing barbarism inflicted upon the Palestinians by Zionists has always been present as a primary "necessity," the final solution. The only new element this time around is the fact that we have been able to witness, in real time, the psychopathic raw nature of Zionism. Just listen to the average Israeli, and very soon you will realize the skillful brainwashing that has been carried out in order to dehumanize the Palestinians and carry out the extermination and theft of land and cultural appropriation guilt-free.
Ahmad's professor is an abject liar--international law professors all over the world have documented Israel's war crimes for years, and there's absolutely no doubt that the IDF has been breaking international law multiple times every day. The problem is with the way the UN is set up--no nations should ever have been given veto power. If it weren't for that, UN peacekeepers could have been sent into Gaza many months ago. Israel has flouted international law from the beginning, making a mockery out of the UN and tying its hands, because all it needed to do was throw money (and blackmail) at US politicians, who are hamstrung by pork barrel funding for elections. All Israel has to do is threaten to not fund some politician coming up for election, or fund scummy ads against him or her, and they control everything. It is not the international law that is at fault--it is big cracks in the way the governance system works.
It is certainly true that Netanyahu is not alone, but is merely the latest in a long line of Jewish leaders who believe Palestinians must be crushed or exterminated to create Greater Israel, dating back to before 1946.
That's really powerful - and all true.
Netanyahu has turned Israel into a terrorist state intent on exterminating Palestinians to create Greater Israel.
It is a strategy which makes Israel less safe, not more. Every time an Israeli kills a Palestinian, it causes more people to hate Israelis - a self-defeating strategy.
I would caution you not to make the mistake of placing the blame on Netanyahu and the current political system in Israel. The extermination of the native inhabitants of Palestine was, and continues to be, the most important principle since Zionism was conceived as an aspiration for the Ashkenazi Jew. The dehumanizing barbarism inflicted upon the Palestinians by Zionists has always been present as a primary "necessity," the final solution. The only new element this time around is the fact that we have been able to witness, in real time, the psychopathic raw nature of Zionism. Just listen to the average Israeli, and very soon you will realize the skillful brainwashing that has been carried out in order to dehumanize the Palestinians and carry out the extermination and theft of land and cultural appropriation guilt-free.
This is such an important point. Is international law operating in exactly the way it was designed to?
It looks like it, since Israel is still flattening Gaza, and now Lebanon and Syria.
It looks like it's just a tool of the imperialist order.
The West has never treated anyone as human except for their own interests. Humanity doesn't exist in a nutshell.
Ahmad's professor is an abject liar--international law professors all over the world have documented Israel's war crimes for years, and there's absolutely no doubt that the IDF has been breaking international law multiple times every day. The problem is with the way the UN is set up--no nations should ever have been given veto power. If it weren't for that, UN peacekeepers could have been sent into Gaza many months ago. Israel has flouted international law from the beginning, making a mockery out of the UN and tying its hands, because all it needed to do was throw money (and blackmail) at US politicians, who are hamstrung by pork barrel funding for elections. All Israel has to do is threaten to not fund some politician coming up for election, or fund scummy ads against him or her, and they control everything. It is not the international law that is at fault--it is big cracks in the way the governance system works.
The points made about international law are spot on.
This is a brilliantly written article and says it all.
It is certainly true that Netanyahu is not alone, but is merely the latest in a long line of Jewish leaders who believe Palestinians must be crushed or exterminated to create Greater Israel, dating back to before 1946.