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29 Jun

Nigel What I find even more ironic is the use of McDonald's as an example of a corporation putting principle before profit considering it's a business empire based on selling dangerously unhealthy foods to it's clients. Kevin Jon Heller I considered adding a snarky comment that, health-wise, the settlers are much better off with McDonald's around... Nigel Indeed - bring on the boycotts! Avi Keslinger The settlements are not illegal. The entire Ottoman province of Palestine (including Jordan, which at most should be the Palestinian state) was given to the...
29.06.13 | |

04 Aug

reader Deleuze was a resolute critic of Israel in his writings (see his essays, "The Spoilers of Peace" and "The Indians of Palestine"), so I'm not sure he would have been quite so pleased about his appropriation here. Ps: This essay first appeared in 2006. For a more productive use of social theory by Weizmann himself (instead of by the Tsahal), his essays on the Politics of Verticality and the Geometry of Occupation are much more insightful. vimothy Weizman's hyperventilation notwithstanding, the language of Deleuze or (say) EBO looks cool...
04.08.09 | |

31 Aug

...forms by quasi-fascist forces (and not so quasi-) all over the world, I find myself teaching more respect for the "culture of formalism," to use a phrase from Martti Koskenniemi which I (like many other critical people) resisted when he first coined it. This is a topic itself worthy of a symposium: " the critique of law in an era of rising fascism." I touched on this in an essay on Israel/Palestine on this blog a couple of months ago, but the issue takes myriad forms all over the world......
31.08.20 | |

05 Jun

...it were, it would not be possible for other nations to routinely exercise jurisdiction over events onboard foreign ships in their territorial waters, and merchant ships could grant political refuge/asylum as warships currently can. Nevertheless, it is correct that the ICC can exercise jurisdiction over events onboard civilian ships and aircraft registered by a state party. But that is because Article 12 para. 1 (a) of the Rome Statute specifically extends jurisdiction to vessels and aircraft, not because they are state territory per se. Of course for the ICC to...
05.06.10 | |

12 Aug

...is willing to kill off its citizens to keep the cash flowing. So do the Palestine, where a family can get set for a generation by having a son or daughter who becomes a suicide bomber. Raping enemy women is actually illegal, and the idea of enslaving them, and passing thme out to the roops (Mentioned in the Bible)is simply beyond belief anymore. In the meantime, it is no longer any joy to be a soldier, as there are too many politically correct idiots in charge of the battle field....
12.08.05 | |

22 Apr

...a false negative, e.g. letting an inciter commit his vile crime–which would be catastrophic. Professor Gregory Stanton of Mary Washington University and GenocideWatch and Dr Rony Blum of Hebrew University and Yale University and I have advocated shifting the focus of genocide law and preventive activity from proof of intent after the event to prediction and prevention. (Memorandum submitted to Council of Foreign Relations, April 2006, via Paul Fold of US Senate Foreign Relations Committee). As is known to everyone in this discussion, The Rome Statute of the ICC, which...
22.04.08 | |

23 Nov

...38 of the First Additional Protocol, which simply prohibits misuse — they would be guilty of “making improper use” as long as the conflict qualified as international. The ICC has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in Afghanistan. (Pakistan has signed but not ratified the Rome Statute.) Ken and I have discussed before — see here and here — the possibility that the ICC will investigate such crimes. If it does, the actions of the Blackwater employees should certainly be on its list of targets: the prohibition of perfidy is fundamental...
23.11.09 | |

10 Jun

...has accepted the jurisdiction of the ICC either). The only way this case gets to the ICJ is as an advisory opinion referral. This could happen. I wonder if Israel would put up a defense. They have some pretty strong legal arguments. But is the ICJ biased against Israel? The 2004 Wall judgment doesn’t inspire confidence from Israel’s point of view, but the membership of the Court has changed. And I think that Israel would have a better chance at the ICJ than in the court of world media opinion....
10.06.10 | |

19 May

...of the Bush Administration, which were actually reversals from their first term, as a simple case of continuity - which is misleading. You identify the substantive, radical departures of sanctioned behaviour which are glossed over in the analysis, such as the actual practice of torture and the closure of GTMO. You also point to broader policy positions encompassing the broader Middle East and the Israeli-Palestine issue which obviously underlie a completely different understanding of the role of credible intermediation and universalisability in fostering international peace and security and the importance...
19.05.09 | |

23 Jan

...Palestine as a full state member of the UN and they can decide who gets the seat the Ambassador from Hamas or from President Abbas! We'll have peace in the Middle East too because the all the efforts at the UN to trash Israel will FINALLY succeed. Richard Galber I agree The US should leave the UN' and stop direct and indirect funding of the UN to the tune of billions It would mean the UN finding a new home away from the glitz and glamour of New York And...
23.01.17 | |

26 Apr

...the Oslo Agreements had transformed the illegal situation. Elizabeth Samson attempts to employ the Oslo Accords as if the expired interim agreements created the right for Israel to treat Palestine as its Protectorate or a autonomous dependent State. In 1967 Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban dismissed the idea, and admitted that the days of creating entities with limited sovereignty had passed. Elizabeth claims that Israel doesn't have effective control because "the state in power “exercises the functions of government in such territory” (Fourth Geneva Convention, Art. 6)". Article 7 of...
26.04.12 | |

31 Jul

...attrition as successful in getting Israel to withdraw from Lebanon. Moreover, and more fundamentally, 'Hizbu'llah's reluctance to grant Israel recognition is rooted in its rendition of the origins of the Israeli state, which it unequivocally portrays as a "rape" or "usurpation" of Palestinian land, thereby rendering it a state which is "originally based on aggression." [....] Hizbu'llah does not just anathematise Israel on account of the circumstances of its establishment, but also because of its contemporary political and military activity. [....] [T]he Judaisation of Palestine is not the final end...
31.07.06 | |