The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has ruled that it has jurisdiction to investigate alleged war crimes by Israel in the Occupied Territories. This might lead to the ICC issuing arrest warrants against Israeli officials and military leaders. Israel – as usual – reaches to its proven and successful hammer and cries Antisemitism.
Anyone who believes that Israel has no right to take over and settle Palestinian lands conquered in 1967 with its own Jewish population, anyone who believes that what Israel does in scandalously criminal, anyone who believes that military control over millions of Palestinians is not only damaging to Palestinians but also has a corrupting effect on the Israeli population and causes Antisemitism, thereby endangering the Jewish people as a whole – should support bringing an end to the Occupation.
Israeli voters have proven to be stubborn opponents of any retreat from the Occupied Territories. They support governments that systematically slice Palestinian land and settle Jews on this land. It seems that only trauma, will bring about change in this attitude. A serious war with tens of thousands of dead would be such a trauma. Those who want to prevent this kind of trauma, should support the softer kind: effective sanctions that will force Israel to abide by UN resolutions and International law.
The ICC decision is a welcome step.
This is just plain silly.
ReplyDeleteDear Alex, You have misrepresented what I have written. I am saying that to prevent war, we need a non-war trauma that would make clear that occupation and apartheid have a price.
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