Significant international and local developments are happening. Israel attacked Syria in violations of the UN charter and this will seems intended to provoke a war. Israel also did not show up at a mandatory review
of its human rights record in front of the UN Human Rights Council. All 193 U.N.-member nations are required to submit to such a review
every four years, and council diplomats said they worried that if nation were
let off the hook that could undermine the process. Israel was the
first country to do so in the history of the council setting a precedent that
is very dangerous. The UN H.R. council had appointed
an independent commission which just finished a study that took months. The report of of 154 pages is titled “Report
of the independent international fact-finding mission to investigate the implications of the
Israeli settlements on the civil,
political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the
Occupied Palestinian Territory,
including East Jerusalem.” It concluded that Israeli colonial settlements in the
areas occupied in 1967 could be brought to task as war crimes under International
law.
The commission led by a French judge also stated that all
settlements (including in East Jerusalem are illegal and that Israeli leaders
could be brought to task for violating international law. All that
is needed is a technicality: for Palestinians to join the Rome statute and
bring the case before the International Criminal Court. It remains to be seen if the Palestinian
leadership would get serious or will continue lying to us (after all, they told
us that the reason for the upgrade at the UN from an observer organization to a
non-member state is to join UN agencies and hold Israel accountable). But this is not the first time we are lied
to. The last few years we were told
about the reconciliation agreement with Hamas will be implemented (soon or on
particular dates) and all dates passed without implementation. The last was when Fatah leaders told us that
the interim government will be appointed before the end of this month
(January). Well, this is also
passed. We remain trapped in the shit
hole that is the Oslo accords that have long expired (1998) and that Israel
violated anyway in its supposed 5 year interim period (1993-1998). Meanwhile this remains the most profitable
occupation in history with 10-20 billion in revenue that Israel gets from
occupying the West Bank and Gaza (and that is not counting the
settlements!). The ball is in the court
of the PLO even as that network needs to recreate itself to represent the Palestinian
people rather than the elite . Below are other things worth pondering including
exposition of Israeli lies and myths.
Note: Tomorrow/Friday are weekly demonstrations in various
locations. My recommendation is the 3 PM
demonstration in Sheikh Rarrah in East Jerusalem to protest the ongoing colonial
settlement activity ( stolen lands and houses from natives to serve Europeans
just because they are Jewish).
The report of the UN commission is here
Israeli TV admits: No rockets were ever fired from UNRWA
schools in Gaza during “Cast Lead”
The Gift of the Other: Why I Do Not Want to Leave
Palestine/Israel by LYNDA BURSTEIN BRAYER
New book: Tel Aviv historian uncovers “Land of Israel” myths
http://electronicintifada.net/content/new-book-tel-aviv-historian-uncovers-land-israel-myths/12116#.UQji7uIMOtk.email
http://electronicintifada.net/content/new-book-tel-aviv-historian-uncovers-land-israel-myths/12116#.UQji7uIMOtk.email
What I Learned About Empire in
the West Bank
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2013/01/what-i-learned-about-empire-in-the-west-bank/
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2013/01/what-i-learned-about-empire-in-the-west-bank/
Israel admits Ethiopian women were given birth control shots
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-admits-ethiopian-women-were-given-birth-control-shots.premium-1.496519
This is the new improved UN HR commission, detoxified of its anti-Israel components, supposedly (a development paralleling Jeffrey Feltman's becoming Asst. Sec. General for political affairs--the UN is "bending over backwards" to please the US and Israel), which Israel has now refused to work with.
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