2022 UN Report charges Israel with Apartheid, Crimes

Submitted by Linda Wood on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 1:29pm

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114702

Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territory is ‘apartheid’: UN rights expert

25 March 2022

Human Rights

Calling on the international community to accept and adopt the recent findings in his report, an independent human rights expert said on Friday that “apartheid is being practiced by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territory”.

The UN Special Rapporteur’s report echoes recent findings by Palestinian, Israeli and international human rights organisations who analized Israel’s 55-year occupation of the Palestinian Territory.

“There is today in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967 a deeply discriminatory dual legal and political system, that privileges the 700,000 Israeli Jewish settlers living in the 300 illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967.

‘Open-air prison’

Mentioning the lack of rights of people living in the same vicinity, but separated by walls, checkpoints and roads, Mr. Lynk acknowledged that “there are more than three million Palestinians living under an oppressive rule of institutional discrimination and without a path to a genuine Palestinian state that the world has long promised, is their right”.

“Another two million Palestinians live in Gaza, described regularly as an ‘open-air prison’, without adequate access to power, water or health, with a collapsing economy and with no ability to freely travel to the rest of Palestine or the outside world”, he added.

… The independent rights expert added that Israel’s military rule in the occupied Palestinian territory has been deliberately built with the “intention of enduring facts on the ground to demographically engineer a permanent, and illegal, Israeli sovereign claim over occupied territory, while confining Palestinians in smaller and more confined reserves of disconnected land”.

International community’s responsibility

Citing inhumane acts, arbitrary and extra-judicial killings, torture, the denial of fundamental rights, an abysmal child mortality rate, collective punishment, an abusive military court system, and home demolitions, Mr. Lynk said the international community bears much responsibility for the present situation.

“For more than 40 years, the UN Security Council and General Assembly have stated in hundreds of resolutions that Israel’s annexation of occupied territory is unlawful, its construction of hundreds of Jewish settlements are illegal, and its denial of Palestinian self-determination breaches international law,” he added.

Highlighting that no accountability had ever followed, the Special Rapporteur concluded, “if the international community had truly acted on its resolutions 40 or 30 years ago, we would not be talking about apartheid today.”

Mr. Lynk called on the international community to come up with an imaginative list of effective accountability measures to bring the Israeli occupation “and its apartheid practices” in the occupied Palestinian territory, to a complete end…

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Submitted by humphrey on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 2:00pm

This is what happens when you have the support of the MSM

in your back pocket.

Israelis couldn’t even spot a massive offensive operation being prepared under their noses, but now want us to believe that they know all the Hamas locations and that’s what they’re hitting?

Get outta here man, they’re erasing neighbourhoods with half-assed intel to show force.

— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) October 9, 2023

Submitted by QMS on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 2:29pm

Someone please remind me why Israel owns the US congress?

Never quite figured that one out. For awhile there Kiev was our capital,
but I guess that is changing now.

Submitted by on the cusp on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 2:40pm

Bibi has declared

full blown siege warfare.
It doesn't seem to be a war crime anymore.

—

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by Linda Wood on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 3:02pm

Photos of attacks on Gaza

at Al Jazeera:

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/10/8/israeli-strikes-flatten-buil...

Submitted by Linda Wood on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 3:15pm

Haaretz blames Netanyahu

At Newsweek:

https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-haaretz-israel-gaza-blame-attack-1832963

Benjamin Netanyahu Blamed by Top Israel Newspaper in Scathing Attack
BY BRENDAN COLE ON 10/9/23 AT 4:22 AM EDT

Benjamin Netanyahu "bears responsibility" for the deadliest raid into Israeli territory in 50 years, newspaper Haaretz has said.

... As the consequences of the deadliest raid into Israeli territory since Egypt and Syria's attacks in the 1973 Yom Kippur War continue to unravel, the editorial board of Israel's third-biggest newspaper said that the conflict "is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu."

The op-ed said that the prime minister had "completely failed to identify the dangers he was consciously leading Israel into" when he established a government of "annexation and dispossession" and by appointing Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir to key positions.

Smotrich, a right-wing politician appointed minister of finance in 2022, has caused controversy by expanding Israeli settlements in the West Bank and opposing Palestinian statehood. Ben-Gvir is the security minister, who has faced charges of hate speech against Arabs.

The paper said that Netanyahu's foreign policy "openly ignored the existence and rights of Palestinians" and expected the Israeli prime minister to "certainly try to evade his responsibility and cast the blame on the heads of the army, Military Intelligence and the Shin Bet security service.

...The piece said that Netanyahu had shaped the policy of the government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, which aimed "to crush the Palestinian national movement in both its wings, in Gaza and the West Bank."

The newspaper said that after winning in the last election, his "fully-right government" had taken steps to to annex the West Bank and to carry out ethnic cleansing in parts of the Oslo-defined Area C, including the Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley."

The piece criticized Netanyahu for a "massive expansion" of settlements and increasing the Jewish presence on Temple Mount near the Al Aqsa Mosque, as well as a peace deal with Saudi Arabia "in which the Palestinians get nothing."

And how I wish our mainstream media would write a similar article about Nuland leading us, as well as the world, into the madness in Ukraine.

Submitted by Linda Wood on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 3:20pm

Craig Murray

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/10/now-we-have-your-attention/

Now We Have Your Attention
October 9, 2023 by Craig

There have been decades of photos of dead Palestinian women and children, and kids being beaten, humilated and imprisoned by Israeli soldiers. The historic killing rate in this “conflict” has been fairly consistent at about 40:1.

None of this ever caused more than a raised eyebrow and a mild tut-tut from the western “liberal” Establishment. I can’t recall camera crews ever pursuing any zionist politicians down the street demanding that they use the word “condemn” of the latest Israeli atrocity.

The paroxysm of hatred in the political and media class, unleashed by a single day of the boot being on the other foot is instructive. It is particularly instructive in their near complete unanimity – what percentage of the discussion on broadcast TV or radio have you heard this last 48 hours given over to Palestinian or pro-Palestinian voices?

Yet it is very plain from social media that the public is by no means as unanimous in their support of Israel as are the political and media class...

I am extremely sorry for all those who die, as in all wars. I am sorry even for the deaths of individual Israeli soldiers, and more so for all the innocents who died and are now dying.

But I will not condemn Hamas.

For this I do not even need to delve into the backstory of Hamas’ initial sponsoring by Israel to split Fatah. They have grown well past that. I do not condemn Hamas because the resistance of the Palestinian people is a reflex response to their slow genocide.

Yes it is an inchoate and violent response. Of course I wish it did not have innocent victims.

The people I do condemn are the political class internationally who, with one voice, put out statements supporting “Israel’s right to self-defence”. A right they grant to the oppressor but deny to the oppressed.

Those are the people who need to be condemned.

Submitted by QMS on Mon, 10/09/2023 - 4:05pm

May cooler heads prevail

The European Union has announced that it will not suspend payment of development aid to Palestinians, reversing course after an earlier announcement that it would freeze all aid payments was met with widespread criticism.

and a two-front war?

The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has fired a barrage of rockets into Israel after at least three of its members were killed during an Israeli bombardment of southern Lebanon amid soaring tensions on Israel’s northern border.