7/23/24 to All My Federal Politicians

Subject:  International Court of Justice Just Delivered Another Land-mark Ruling Concerning Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Palestine.

Judging from Netanyahu’s and the U.S.’s furious reaction, the ICJ ruling must have really hit a nerve.

Advisory opinions from the ICJ are the most authoritative interpretations of international law that you can get. It means the court’s 15 lawyers and their teams studied a certain legal question for months and years and then deliver a judgment in the sense of a “super expert opinion” on the matter.  In the practice of international law, these opinions then become “sources of law”.  They can be the basis for future verdicts on concrete questions if members decide to drag each other to the court and they can inform UN members at the General Assembly and the Security council of what the law actually says. 

While Israel forcefully “rejects” the ruling and certainly won’t adjust its behaviour. This is a big set-back for the Zionist project which was founded on clearing all “Arabs” from Palestine.

International Law represents first and foremost the “general collective will” of the international community as expressed through treaties, declarations, custom, and—expert opinions.  So, what this verdict signifies is another instant of “the world” not recognizing Israel’s claims over Palestinian lands. Israel says, literally, “The people of Israel are not occupiers”.  This statement is the core of the issue. The verdict means that the world does not recognize precisely this claim, namely that Israel, by virtue of Jews having lived in these lands 2000 years ago, derives some magical historical rights over the land. This is not a concept of international law and won’t be one. 

https://youtu.be/eJlnZj5j6nI?si=G2VTughW3cFBadh5

OBEY THE LEAHY LAW!   OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW!  STOP SUPPORTING ISRAEL!    STOP KILLING PEOPLE!  STOP SUPPORTING THE OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE!     AND . . .  

Spend the taxes of “WE THE PEOPLE” on improving the lives of “WE THE PEOPLE”.