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26 Jan

...of Foreign Relations Kevin meanwhile was (nearly) rendered speechless , not once but twice , first by the US Air Force’s claim that US militarism is a fitting tribute to Martin Luther King and then by an article quoting Jeh Johnson as stating that MLK would approve the US’ current wars. He also thought that it was pathetic for Susan Rice to object to a “State of Palestine” nameplate in the UN Security Council. And this brings me to his next post on Palestine, summarizing why it matters formally that...
26.01.13 | |

21 Aug

...vision of “a region where two democratic States, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace within secure and recognized borders”. The most recent is resolution 2334 (2016), which was adopted during the presidency of Barack Obama, in which the council reaffirmed that “the establishment by Israel of settlements in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, has no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-State solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace”....
21.08.20 | |

23 Jun

...the Centre for Evidence & Criminal Justice Studies in Northumbria University will jointly host a symposium on ‘The Situation in Palestine- Emerging Domestic and International Jurisprudence’. This event reflects on international and domestic developments to defend Palestinian rights. This symposium brings together leading practitioners and scholars of international law who have been at the forefront of pursuing and analysing this emerging jurisprudence. We will reflect critically on the situation in Palestine today and the possibilities and limits of these various legal initiatives in different judicial arenas. The event’s keynote speakers will be...
23.06.24 | |

25 Feb

...obligations towards the Palestinian Territory must be assessed going forward. Israeli Belligerent Occupation of the Palestinian Territories 1967-1994 Israel first established effective control over the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem—then widely referred to as the “Palestinian territories”—during the 1967 “Six Day War,” an IAC between Israel and several Arab States, including Egypt and Jordan. Much as today, the international legal status of those territories was ambiguous in 1967. The Palestinian territories constituted those parts of the former Mandate of Palestine that lay outside the 1949 armistice lines...
25.02.25 | |

09 Oct

is. While it is true that the State of Palestine is recognized by over 100, it is misleading to make numerical comparisons between the State of Palestine and Kosovo when it comes to the recognition of their statehood. As you know very well the 50 states that recognized Kosovo make up 70.24% of the global GDP. Moreover, besides being recognized by 22 out of 26 and 27 member states of NATO and EU, respectively, Kosovo is recognized by 7 out of 8 member states of G8. In a nutshell, Kosovo...
09.10.08 | |

30 Jan

...like Hamas and Fatah, do not belong to the State of Palestine in the sense that they are fighting for the State and the State has accepted that the group is fighting on its behalf (2020 Commentary to GC III, para. 1,005). These groups are also not under the overall control of Palestine or another State in the sense that they have “a role in organising, coordinating or planning the military actions of the military group, in addition to financing, training and equipping or providing operational support” (Prosecutor v. Tadić,...
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22 Feb

22 October 2019, ICC-02/17-95. The AC should have sanctioned the ECLJ for submitting a backdated document — I assume in the hope that no one would notice. Instead, the AC granted the ECLJ’s request to appear in the Afghanistan situation. So, to recap: in the Afghanistan situation, the AC does not apply Reg. 33(2) when it is ignored by a state and is knowingly violated by an ultra-right pro-Israel organization. In the Palestine situation, the PTC applies Reg. 33(2) inconsistently and in a manner that excludes — and only excludes...
22.02.20 | |

17 May

...have been deliberately constructed in a manner that has resulted in apartheid, see Saree Makdisi’s Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (2008), and Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi, eds., The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Territories (2009). In the latter volume, Hilla Dayan notes that ’it is important to clarify that apartheid in South Africa is neither a precursor to nor repeated in Israel/Palestine, nor is apartheid a conceptual basis for comparing the two countries. The tendency in most comparisons of the...
17.05.10 | |

13 Aug

...of the International Criminal Court (ICC) establishes that intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population, as well as intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to education, are war crimes. However, the ICC can only prosecute crimes if the alleged perpetrator is a national of one of its State Parties, if the crime was committed on the territory of a State Party, or if the matter is referred by the UN Security Council. While Israel has signed the ICC Statute, it has never ratified it, and Palestine’s declaration accepting the ICC...
13.08.14 | |

19 May

...so Apple comes up with a ridiculous pretext for rejecting it and hopes nobody notices. I know what you’re thinking: doesn’t Apple has the right to avoid “political” games? Isn’t it smart business to stay out of the Israel/Palestine conflict? Fair question. And in response I give you this: Meet Israeli Heroes, an Angry Birds rip-off in which — according to Boing Boing — “you hurl cartoon missiles at vaguely Arabic-looking adversaries.” Currently available for free on iTunes. So much for Apple’s political neutrality. Liyla and the Shadow of War...
19.05.16 | |

04 Oct

state" like the Vatican. It's interesting to note, that when the Vatican's bid for full membership in the UN failed in 2004, it asked for its own privileges to be upgraded to those already enjoyed by Palestine. Compare the rules annexed to A/RES/52/250 (1998) with those annexed to A/RES/58/314 (2004) See also: "The Holy See backs off from its claim for full membership of the UN, settling for the rights already held by Palestine." So the debate is really only about the use of the word "state" instead of "entity"....
04.10.12 | |

17 Sep

...and Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), as well as numerous academic articles. This act of denial of entry and deportation by the Israeli state and its agencies is part of a systematic policy of denial of entry to international academics, professionals and activists intending to visit Palestine. This policy represents an attack on Palestinian academic freedom, and is routinely practiced at the two entry points, the airport in Tel Aviv and the Jordan valley crossing from Jordan. Israel is truly the Donald Trump of...
17.09.16 | |