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'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Sat Dec 31st, 2022 at 10:08:55 PM EST

#uncharter #UNSCresolutions #hypocrisy #exposed

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Dec 31st, 2022 at 10:09:58 PM EST
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Can't explain away the occupation of Palestinian territory ...



'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Sat Dec 31st, 2022 at 11:21:12 PM EST
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by Cat on Sun Jan 1st, 2023 at 01:54:49 PM EST
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"our local Tuscany"
At a ceremony Sunday, [tourism minister Haim] Katz said he would channel resources to promote tourism in the West Bank. "We will invest in areas that may not have received sufficient support to date," he said. "For example, our local Tuscany in Judea and Samaria," he added, using the biblical term for the West Bank favored by religious and right-wing Israelis.

The West Bank settler community has developed a small tourism sector that includes hotels, bed and breakfasts and wineries. Israel considers these industries to be part of the country's broader tourism sector, while international human rights groups have said they deepen control of occupied territory.
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archived war crimes update in memoriam
by Cat on Sun Jan 1st, 2023 at 04:29:43 PM EST
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Given insight to Ukraine's instructions, how  might one explain the remaining 27 non-voting members'—Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, CAR, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Dominica, Equitorial Guinea, Eswatini, Gambia, Guinea, Kazakhstan, Madagascar, Niger, North Macedonia, Sao Tome-Principe, Seychelles, Suriname, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Venezuela—plenary resolve, motives, and pecuniary interests in endorsing ICJ authority?
by Cat on Mon Jan 2nd, 2023 at 03:18:22 PM EST
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Quite interesting entry by year ...

ICJ -- Declarations recognizing the jurisdiction of the Court as compulsory

The States parties to the Statute of the Court may "at any time declare that they recognize as compulsory ipso facto and without special agreement, in relation to any other State accepting the same obligation, the jurisdiction of the Court" (Art. 36, para. 2, of the Statute).

Each State which has recognized the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court has in principle the right to bring any one or more other States, which have accepted the same obligation, before the Court, by filing an application instituting proceedings with the Court. Conversely, it undertakes to appear before the Court should proceedings be instituted against it by one or more other such States.

The declarations recognizing the jurisdiction of the Court as compulsory take the form of a unilateral act of the State concerned and are deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

On 4 July 2018, Palestine deposited in the Registry of the Court a declaration ...

The big three are lacking: China, Russia, United States 🙃

Quite amazing the demonstrations near the Carnegie Peace Palace which houses the Highest International Court in The Hague.

Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory - July 2004

'Sapere aude'

by Oui (Oui) on Mon Jan 2nd, 2023 at 03:43:03 PM EST
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US hasn't signed on to the domestic provisions of the Geneva Conventions either.  Can't imagine why that would be.
by rifek on Mon Jan 2nd, 2023 at 06:56:10 PM EST
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Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols

Despite being signatory to the Conventions, there are some notable and often-criticized U.S. cases involving conduct that would otherwise be prohibited by the Conventions, such as Hamdi v. Rumsfield (2004). In Hamdi, a U.S. citizen was accused of being a member of the Taliban forces on U.S. soil as an "enemy combatant," and was detained by unilateral Executive decision.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the validity of his detention.



'Sapere aude'
by Oui (Oui) on Mon Jan 2nd, 2023 at 09:10:21 PM EST
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