| Posted By:jasmin On 6/23/2008 |
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A little reminder about Israeli violations of UN resolutions
Did you know that:
Between 1948 and the 1967 war, there were six UN resolutions condemning
Israel for its raids on its neighbours Gaza, Jordan and Syria which
recommended that Israel suspend its no mans zone in Jerusalem; and urging
compliance with UN resolutions?
Did you also know that:
In the period between the 1967 war and the year 2000, the UN Security
Council has passed 138 resolutions relating to the Israel/Palestine
conflict, all of which have been ignored including the following:
* On June 14, 1967, the Security Council called upon Israel to ensure the
safety, welfare and security of the inhabitants, facilitate the return of
those inhabitants who have fled the areas since the outbreak of the
hostilities and recommends the scrupulous respect of the humanitarian
principles contained in the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949
(Resolution No. 237).
* On November 22, 1967, Resolution 242 referred to the inadmissibility of
the acquisition of territory by war and called for the withdrawal of
Israeli forces from territories occupied in the conflict....
* On May 21, 1968, Resolution 252 called on Israel to rescind measures
changing the legal status of Jerusalem and to end its expropriation of
land and properties.
* On March 22, 1979, the Security Council adopted Resolution No. 446,
which stated that the policy of establishing Zionist settlements in the
Occupied Territories had no legal validity and called on Israel to desist
from taking any action which would result in changing the legal status and
geographical nature and materially affecting the demographic composition
of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including Jerusalem, and in
particular, not to transfer parts of its own civilian population into the
occupied Arab territories.
Did you also know that:
Fourteen resolutions have criticised Israel for defying UN resolutions?
Four resolutions have accused Israel of violating the UN Charter?
Seven have reprimanded, warned or criticised Israel for its deportations
of Palestinian civilians?
A further 19 resolutions have accused Israel of violating the terms of the
Fourth Geneva Convention, which deals with the protection of civilians in
war and under occupation?
Did you also know that:
Even this underestimates the true scale of Israel's defiance of the UN,
since the chief backers of the Zionist state, the USA and Britain, have
regularly used their power to veto Security Council draft resolutions. In
total, the USA had blocked more than 35 draft Security Council resolutions
on Israel?
Did you also know that:
The USA, in fact, bankrolls Israel's oppression of the Palestinians, which
is smaller than the state of New Jersey, and that Israel receives nearly
one third of the entire annual USA Foreign Aid Budget approximately $6
billion as economic and military aid and loan guarantees. A massive $2
billion is earmarked for military aid?
Consider this:
Iraq's flouting of the UN constituted a causus belli that legitimised the
bombing of Iraq, the overthrow of its government and the subsequent
occupation of the country. Israel's flouting of resolution after
resolution, on the other hand, was deemed irrelevant.
The historical record embodied in these resolutions demonstrates the
essentially criminal character of successive Israeli governments and is
the real reason why Israel cannot submit to the International Court of
Justice. To do so would mean accepting international law as set out by the
UN and recognising that its actions for the last 37 years have violated
every aspect of the Fourth Geneva Convention, adopted by the UN in 1949.
More fundamentally, it would mean abandoning its policy of establishing a
Greater Israel through the forcible expropriation of the majority of the
West Bank and its incorporation into the Zionist state.
Now that you know, what are you going to do about it?
Note: the above adapted from the article "Why Israel boycotted the
International Court hearing on West Bank wall"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/testdir/feb2004/isra-f28.shtml
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