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> > > > > > Jewish fanatic settler establishes company in Iraq with
Challabi's
> > > > > > nephew
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you have a problem with Israelis doing business in Iraq?
> > > > > If not, than what's all the fuss about?
> >
> > > > Yes, because [al953's a dumbass]
& you are zionist vermin
> > >
> > > Israeli's should not be permitted to do business anywhere inside Iraq
> > > while Israel continues to occupy Arab land, violates international law
> >
> > where is it said the land is the arab land?
> > what international law is & what international law israel allegedly
violates?
> > spare us your typical hysterical bullshit & give us some answers
> > ;]
>
> UNGAR 181 states that the land was partitioned to Arabs many times.
> Might I suggest you read it!
>
> Here are some of the Violations of International Law by Israel
>
> War crimes committed during Israel's military assaults in March and
> April 2002 include:
>
> -Willful killing or killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid
> down his arms or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at
> discretion;
>
> -Extensive destruction and appropriation of property not justified by
> military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly;
>
> -The use of protected persons as human shields;
>
> -Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack
> will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to
> civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the
> natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to
> the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
>
> -Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages,
> dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military
> objectives;
> Committing outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating
> and degrading treatment;
>
> -Intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to
> religion, education, art, science or charitable purposes, historic
> monuments, hospitals and places where the sick and wounded are
> collected, provided they are not military objectives;
>
> -Pillage.
>
>
> Crimes against humanity include:
>
> Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in
> violation of fundamental rules of international law;
>
> Persecution - i.e., the intentional and severe deprivation of
> fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the
> identity of the group or collectivity - against any identifiable group
> or collectivity on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural,
> religious, gender ..., or other grounds that are universally
> recognized as impermissible under international law;
>
> The crime of apartheid defined as inhumane acts committed in the
> context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and
> domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups
> and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime.
>
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> More reading on the subject,
>
> The International Laws of Belligerent Occupation
>
> by Professor Francis Boyle
> Professor of International Law, University of Illinois
>
>
> Belligerent occupation is governed by The Hague Regulations of 1907,
> as well as by the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and the customary
> laws of belligerent occupation. Security Council Resolution 1322
> (2000), paragraph 3 continued: "Calls upon Israel, the occupying
> Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and its
> responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the
> Protection of Civilian Persons in a Time of War of 12 August 1949;..."
> Again, the Security Council vote was 14 to 0, becoming obligatory
> international law.
>
> The Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the West Bank, to the Gaza
> Strip, and to the entire City of Jerusalem, in order to protect the
> Palestinians living there. The Palestinian People living in this
> Palestinian Land are "protected persons" within the meaning of the
> Fourth Geneva Convention. All of their rights are sacred under
> international law.
>
> Francis A. Boyle is a professor of international law at the
> University of Chicago and a Defence Lawyer at the International Court
> of Justice. He received his Master's Degree and PhD in Political
> Science, as well as his Doctor of Law from Harvard University. He is
> the author of numerous books including, The Future of International
> Law and American Foreign Policy, World Politics and International Law,
> Defending Civil Resistance Under International Law, and Palestine,
> Palestinians, and International Law.
>
> There are 149 substantive articles of the Fourth Geneva Convention
> that protect the rights of every one of these Palestinians living in
> occupied Palestine. The Israeli Government is currently violating, and
> has since 1967 been violating, almost each and every one of these
> sacred rights of the Palestinian People recognized by the Fourth
> Geneva Convention. Indeed, violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention
> are war crimes.
>
> So this is not a symmetrical situation. As matters of fact and of law,
> the gross and repeated violations of Palestinian rights by the Israeli
> army and Israeli settlers living illegally in occupied Palestine
> constitute war crimes. Conversely, the Palestinian People are
> defending themselves and their Land and their Homes against Israeli
> war crimes and Israeli war criminals, both military and civilian.
>
> The U.N. Human Rights Commission
>
> Indeed, it is far more serious than that. On 19 October 2000 a Special
> Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopted a Resolution
> set forth in U.N. Document E/CN.4/S-5/L.2/Rev. 1, "Condemning the
> provocative visit to al Aqsa Haram Sharif on 28 September 2000 by
> Ariel Sharon, the Likud party leader, which triggered the tragic
> events that followed in occupied East Jerusalem and the other occupied
> Palestinian territories, resulting in a high number of deaths and
> injuries among Palestinian civilians." The U.N. Human Rights
> Commission then said it was "[g]ravely concerned" about several
> different types of atrocities inflicted by Israel upon the Palestinian
> People, which it denominated "war crimes, flagrant violations of
> international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity."
>
> In operative paragraph 1 of its 19 October 2000 Resolution, the U.N.
> Human Rights Commission then: "Strongly condemns the disproportionate
> and indiscriminate use of force in violation of international
> humanitarian law by the Israeli occupying Power against innocent and
> unarmed Palestinian civilians...including many children, in the
> occupied territories, which constitutes a war crime and a crime
> against humanity;..." And in paragraph 5 of its 19 October 2000
> Resolution, the U.N. Human Rights Commission: "Also affirms that the
> deliberate and systematic killing of civilians and children by the
> Israeli occupying authorities constitutes a flagrant and grave
> violation of the right to life and also constitutes a crime against
> humanity;..." Article 68 of the United Nations Charter had expressly
> required the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council to "set up" this
> Commission "for the promotion of human rights."
>
> Israel's War Crimes against Palestinians
>
> We all have a general idea of what a war crime is, so I am not going
> to elaborate upon that term here. But there are different degrees of
> heinousness for war crimes. In particular are the more serious war
> crimes denominated "grave breaches" of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
> Since the start of the Al Aqsa Intifada, the world has seen those
> inflicted every day by Israel against the Palestinian People living in
> occupied Palestine: e.g., wilful killing of Palestinian civilians by
> the Israeli army and Israel's illegal paramilitary settlers. These
> Israeli "grave breaches" of the Fourth Geneva Convention mandate
> universal prosecution for their perpetrators, whether military or
> civilian, as well as prosecution for their commanders, whether
> military or civilian, including Israel's political leaders.
>
> Israel's Crimes Against Humanity against Palestinians
>
> But I want to focus for a moment on Israel's "crime against humanity"
> against the Palestinian People -- as determined by the U.N. Human
> Rights Commission itself, set up pursuant to the requirements of the
> United Nations Charter. What is a "crime against humanity"? This
> concept goes all the way back to the Nuremberg Charter of 1945 for the
> trial of the major Nazi war criminals. And in the Nuremberg Charter of
> 1945, drafted by the United States Government, there was created and
> inserted a new type of international crime specifically intended to
> deal with the Nazi persecution of the Jewish People.
>
> The paradigmatic example of a "crime against humanity" is what Hitler
> and the Nazis did to the Jewish People. This is where the concept of
> crime against humanity came from. And this is what the U.N. Human
> Rights Commission determined that Israel is currently doing to the
> Palestinian People: Crimes against humanity. Legally, just like what
> Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews.
>
> The Precursor to Genocide
>
> Moreover, a crime against humanity is the direct historical and legal
> precursor to the international crime of genocide as defined by the
> 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
> Genocide. The theory here was that what Hitler and the Nazis did to
> the Jewish People required a special international treaty that would
> codify and universalise the Nuremberg concept of "crime against
> humanity." And that treaty ultimately became the 1948 Genocide
> Convention.
>
> In fairness, you will note that the U.N. Human Rights Commission did
> not go so far as to condemn Israel for committing genocide against the
> Palestinian People. But it has condemned Israel for committing crimes
> against humanity, which is the direct precursor to genocide. And I
> submit that if something is not done quite soon by the American People
> and the International Community to stop Israeli war crimes and crimes
> against humanity against the Palestinian People, it could very well
> degenerate into genocide, if Israel is not there already. And in this
> regard, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is what international
> lawyers call a genocidaire--one who has already committed genocide in
> the past.
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