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U.S.-Israel aggressive war

Israel-Palestine: Criminal lies

by Charles Judson Harwood Jr.

Lies

1. Hamas is a “terrorist organization” because they target Israeli civilians.

2. All Palestinians are “terrorists” and “criminals” who attack Israeli armed forces (IDF).

Terrorism

Bill Clinton labeled Hamas a “terrorist organization” in 1995, one of 12 groups opposing violent war crimes by Israel.

• William J. Clinton, (U.S. President), Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process, Executive Order 12947 (January 23 1995), 60:16 Federal Register 5079-5081 {fdsys.id, 9kb.txt (omits annex), 59kb.pdf, search, search} (Wednesday January 25 1995), and explanation letter to Congress (January 23 1995), reprinted, Declaration of a National Emergency With Respect to the Middle East Peace Process {fdsys.id, 12kb.txt, 118kb.pdf, search}, “Message from the President of the United States Transmitting His Declaration of a National Emergency With Respect to the Grave Acts of Violence Committed by Foreign Terrorists That Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process, Pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(B)” “referred to the Committee on International Relations” (U.S. Congress 104-1, House Document 104-23, H. Doc. 104-23, January 24 1995) {SuDoc: Y 1.1/7:104-23, Serial Set: 14296}, reprinted, 31:4 WCPD 93-95 (eo, omits annex) {fdsys.id, 5kb.txt, 14kb.pdf, ucsb}, 95-96 (letter) {fdsys.id, 6kb.txt, 88kb.pdf, ucsb}, reprinted, 1995 PPPUS 74-75 (letter only) {4kb.txt, 89kb.pdf} (book 1), White House press release, “fact sheet,” “Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials” {ucsb} (White House briefing room, 2:14-2:44pm, Tuesday January 24 1995).

The background briefers wanted their names concealed, query: are they Jewish? deceiving the public, ordering the reporters to conceal their names to conceal their bias? (Israel is a self-described “Jewish state”).

This executive order — and the legal regime it spawned — criminalizes assistance to groups who employ lawful efforts (including lawful violence) to oppose violent war crimes by Israel, and by its complicit partners in crime, including U.S. officials, chiefly, armed robbery and colonization of the 1967 oPt (the 500,000 Israeli settlers and the infrastructure which serves them).

Hence, this legal regime, itself constitutes a prima facie criminal act of complicity, in those violent crimes, and so too actions, by U.S. officials, to enforce this corrupt, dishonest, hijacking of the institutions of the U.S. government to serve Israel’s violent crimes, by a criminal enterprise, an axis of gangsters, transforming power centers of the U.S. government into their RICOs: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations.

U.S. government officials are intensifying their prima facie crimes, their state-sponsored prima facie crimes against humanity (U.S. government sponsored complicity in war crimes), enforcing this prima facie criminal legal regime.

The pretext for this designation was suicide bombings, targeting Israeli civilians, which Hamas initiated, explicitly, in response to a massacre, a year earlier (February 25 1994). An American Israeli, from the Bronx, Baruch Goldstein, an illegal settler on stolen Palestinian land, murdered 45 Palestinian civilians, in cold blood, wounded 128 more, with a machine gun, during a religious service in a mosque, in Hebron, in the oPt (Israeli occupied Palestinian territory), occupied by Israel in 1967.

This was not the work, directly, of the Israeli government, which condemned the killings, as criminal murder.

But these killings happened, as others before and since, because the Israeli state was, and is, itself engaged in a violent criminal enterprise, the armed robbery of Palestinian land, for Israeli settlers (that’s two separate war crimes), and then defending these two Israeli violent war crimes with yet more violence (aiding and abetting the original two war crimes), preserving them, making them stick, terrorizing their Palestinian victims, impressing upon them, that to resist is futile, penury, prison, maiming, death, and so worse than futile.

Thus leading by its own violent, criminal, example, Israel emboldens Israeli settlers, empowers them, facilitates them, in their violent crimes against Palestinians.

Frequently, typically, practically always, for 40 years (since 1967), the IDF (Israeli army) also incites, aids and abets, facilitates violent crimes by Israeli settlers, against Palestinians, by refusing to do its legal duty (as the government of the 1967 oPt), to intervene, to prevent those Israeli settler crimes. And, to deter them. Virtually always, the IDF and other Israeli state authorities, refuse to arrest, investigate, prosecute, the Israeli settlers afterwards, the one or two exceptions in 40 years, bending to public clamor, were promptly released from prison, following conviction, and welcomed back to their illegal settlements, a returning hero.

Israeli settlers, in the oPt, thus feel immune, licensed, by the Israeli state, to wage violent crime against Palestinians

Each instance of this criminal complicity, in Israeli settler crimes, by the Israeli army (IDF) is a war crime by the IDF commanders responsible, and by each of their civilian masters responsible, including each member of the Israeli cabinet who does not regularly advocate effective measures to terminate IDF criminal complicity in settler crimes.

And, each instance of this criminal complicity is also a violation of the laws of war by the Israeli state, the occupying power of the oPt, governing the oPt through its army (IDF), a corrupt and violent criminal organization.

So ruled the Nuremberg tribunals, when German military officers said they weren’t responsible for the violent crimes of various other groups operating in the territory they occupied, the Einzatzgruppen, Gestapo, SS, SD, SA, and such. The laws of war are plain, the tribunals replied, the army was the government of the occupied territory with the duty to suppress violent crime from whatever source, and especially by its own government’s operatives, regardless of their orders and their chains of command. The High Command Case, judgment (October 27-28 1948), 11 N.M.T. 462-697, at 542-549 (“Responsibility of Commanders of Occupied Territories”) {58.5mb.pdf, source}. The Hostage Case, judgment (February 19 1948), 11 N.M.T. 1230-1319, at 1256-1257 (“The duty and responsibility for maintaining peace and order, and the prevention of crime rests upon the commanding general.”).

This scenario, this 40-year, ongoing, Israeli state violent criminal enterprise, this is a continuous threat of more of the same in the future, continuous war crimes, including the routine killings of Palestinian civilians, both by Israeli settlers and directly by their own government, the IDF (Israeli army), the Israeli occupation government of the 1967 oPt.

This ongoing threat, against Palestinian civilians, prima facie justifies Hamas, under the laws of war, their decision to resort to suicide bombings, targeting Israeli civilians, as belligerent reprisals (discussed below). So too, from a later date, Qassam rockets, fired from Gaza.

Then, Bill Clinton did it again, 2 years later, under some new criminal U.S. criminal laws, “criminal” because these new U.S. laws are themselves tools of the U.S. criminal conspiracy, and RICO criminal enterprise, as they likewise aid and abet, facilitate, Israel’s violent war crimes (confiscation/population of 1967 oPt land, and force to do it and defend it).

This time, Bill Clinton relabeled Hamas a “terrorist organization,” without regard to the fictitious Middle East Peace Process, which U.S. officials subvert, disrupt, by facilitating ongoing U.S. support for Israel, which empowers Israel to continue to violate, to disrupt, the 1993 Oslo peace process, and accelerate its criminal confiscation/population of Palestinian land (the 1967 oPt).

Hamas had more company, on Bill Clinton’s new list, now one of 30 groups. Bill Clinton explained it, Madeleine Albright (Jewish) explained it, signed it.

• Madeleine Albright (Secretary of State), Designation of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (Public Notice 261262, Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterroism), 62:195 Federal Register 52650-52651 {fdsys, 8kb.txt, 12kb.pdf} (Wednesday October 8 1997).

Her press spokesman, James Rubin (Jewish) (he married Christiane Amanpour the next August), he described the extensive government enterprise, the individuals, who pinned that label on Hamas:

But James Rubin did not describe the criminal lie this designation depends upon, nor did he name the individuals who masterminded that lie, nor others who agreed to promote their lie.

This lie is reasserted again and again, each time this designation is renewed, each time U.S. officials refer to Hamas as a “terrorist organization,” each year when U.S. State Department officials publish their annual human rights report (about everybody else, but not themselves, the U.S.A.), a lie by omission, each and every time concealing material information refuting that label.

This is their criminal lie: That it’s a violent crime, when Palestinians target Israeli civilians with Qassam rockets and suicide bombers.

Each member of the criminal conspiracy knows, that civilian targeting is merely a prima facie crime. They know, each of them, that civilian targeting is lawful, in certain circumstances, on certain facts.

And they know, each of them, that these exonerating facts and circumstances exist, that Israel legally justifies civilian targeting by Palestinians, because Israel commits ongoing war crimes, which kill Palestinian civilians.

Israeli settlement of the oPt, for example, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel in the 1967 6-day war. A 40-year crime wave, by Israel. The two Israeli war crimes of armed robbery (looting, seizing Palestinian land by armed force) and colonizing (transfer of Israeli citizens, to live on that stolen land).

These are violent war crimes by the government of the Palestinians, their own government, namely, the Israeli army, belligerent occupier of the 1967 oPt. And so too Israeli detention, killing, maiming, of Palestinian citizens, for the past 42 years, during the course of Israel’s conduct of its violent war crimes, implementing its violent crimes, defending its violent crimes, aiding and abetting its violent crimes, these two, continuous, continuing, Israeli war crimes, armed robbery (looting) and colonizing (the 500,000 Israeli settlers and their infrastructure).

And recently, Israel’s merciless blockade of Gaza, an episode of that 40 year crime, a tactic, to defend their settlement war crimes, by dividing Palestinians, diverting attention, provoking violence. And separate continuous war crimes as well, Israel’s unlawful blockade of humanitarian supplies (food, water, medicine, clothing, shelter, fuel for cooking, heating, electricity). In November 2008, Israel permitted 23 trucks a day to enter Gaza; 3-years earlier, it was 631 trucks per day (December 2005), before Hamas won the election, on January 26 2006 (56% of the seats, in the legislative council, on a 75% voter turnout).

This U.S.-Israel aggressive war, to overthrow the elected Hamas government, and to punish and terrorize Palestinians, to teach them, to never again vote for Hamas:—

This is a reproduction, and by some of the same individuals (e.g., Elliott Abrams), of the Reagan-Bush war on Nicaragua (1981-1991), aided and abetted by Israel, presumably in return for favors, green-lights, money, arms, U.N. vetoes. The Nicaraguan Sandinista party was elected, on November 4 1984, to govern Nicaragua, by 67% of the vote, on a 76% voter turnout.

Violent crime flourishes, when it’s not prosecuted.

It’s terrorism, says George W. Bush, the violent crime he authorized (David Rose, Gareth Porter):

• George W. Bush (U.S. President), Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism, Executive Order 13224, section 3(d) (September 23 2001), 66:186 Federal Register 49079-49083 {fdsys, 15kb.txt, 98kb.pdf} (Tuesday September 25 2001).

They know, each of them, the members of the U.S. criminal conspiracy, that the generality of Hamas attacks are certainly lawful, or certainly probably so, and likely too each and every attack, one-by-one, were its particulars carefully studied.

(Two caveats: A few rockets are launched from Gaza by another belligerent power, Fatah and its operatives, who also represent a segment of Palestinians. Some, maybe all of them, might be launched on secret orders of the U.S./Israel, who have Fatah elements in their pay, as a provocation Israel can cite, for its purposes. As reported by Jeremy Bowen, BBC middle east editor, Israeli officials also concede that some rockets are intentionally targeted at vacant land in Israel, launched for show).

Some agents of the criminal conspiracy may not have known about this law of belligerent reprisals, when they first agreed to promote the lie. If they didn’t know it was a lie, they were not members of the criminal conspiracy, though they promoted its criminal aims. They didn’t agree to commit any crime. They were unwitting, “innocent agents” of the conspirators, unconscious tools of a criminal enterprise.

But not others of them.

Those who later learned, for example, of the law of belligerent reprisals. They voluntarily joined the criminal conspiracy, they shed their innocence, they made their moral choice, they acquired their criminal intent, the moment they first continued to promote it, what they then knew was a lie, a criminal lie.

And not those with a legal duty to inquire about it, to discover it, to report it, to announce it, to put it on the table for formal discussion, to formally dissent against lies — many of those “hundreds and hundreds of lawyers,” for example. Such willfully blind government officials, their jobs required them to investigate and to speak, yet these people signed-on to the criminal conspiracy, with criminal intent, the moment they decided to not investigate, to not speak. They didn’t want to hear about it, and they didn’t want to have to report it, if it came to their attention. They didn’t want to jeopardize their jobs, or jeopardize its aims, by formally confronting the conspiracy with bad news.

This news: So long as any informed, reasonable, person (e.g., Richard Falk, in the company of thousands) can reasonably view what Israel does as unlawful, under the laws of war, continuing illegalities, killing, injuring, Palestinian civilians, then what Hamas does, targeting Israeli civilians, this is a prima facie lawful law enforcement action, lawfully designed to lawfully coerce Israel to terminate its violent war crimes.

On these facts, Hamas cannot have criminal intent, and so cannot commit a crime.

On these facts, Hamas cannot be lawfully labeled a “terrorist organization.”

Hamas is doing what they are lawfully entitled to do.

May be, this or that reprisal rocket, a court might decide it was not justified, by the particular Israeli provocations Hamas cited. An inconceivable decision, because Israel continuously wages violent war crimes, continuously denies it’s doing so, and so continuously threatens more of the same in the future. And because of the kill ratios, 10-to-1, 100-to-1 (Palestinian civilians to Israeli civilians). Hamas is legally entitled to launch rockets at Israeli civilians, from now to kingdom come (because they rarely kill anybody), until Israel renounces war crimes, as a tool of its military doctrine.

But there will be no court decision, and there will be no impartial forensic inquiry, and that’s precisely the justification for belligerent reprisals.

There is no other remedy, no other way to hold to account a belligerent opponent (Israel) who is determined to wage war by unlawful methods. Crime pays, when it’s not punished.

Hamas is lawfully entitled to punish that crime, to deter future such crimes.

Hamas is entitled to form an opinion, on the facts available to them, and to act on their opinion. Hamas reprisals are lawful, targeting Israeli civilians, unless no reasonable informed person can reasonably share that view.

That’s what the U.S. believes, formally accepts, and formally declares, to be a correct statement of the customary law of war. And no treaty binding on Israel-Palestine says otherwise.

And so too the EU4 (U.K., France, Germany, Italy), they too formally agree, declare, and accept, the same, they back the U.S. view.

Yet, the U.S. and the EU4, these are the very leaders of the international conspiracy to falsely and unlawfully label Hamas a “terrorist organization.”

These international leaders advance the aims of their conspiracy by their overt acts, their acts of complicity. They lie. They conceal their own official view. They conceal ongoing Israeli prima facie war crimes which they know to be a provocation for lawful Hamas reprisals. They conceal what Hamas has to say about it, their explanations, the details Hamas cites (Israel’s war crimes) to justify their civilian targeting.

And what are the aims of these international leaders and of the conspiracies they head?

To provide material support to Israel (money, arms, diplomatic backing, U.N. vetoes), and thereby aid and abet them (because they desire it), or else facilitate them (because they know Israel will probably continue to do it), what they know to be violent war crimes by Israel, chiefly Israel’s 40-year crime wave, Israel’s looting of the oPt, Israel’s violent armed robbery of Palestinian land, the land Israel occupied in the 6-day war (1967), and population of that stolen land, with 500,000 Israeli settlers, swelling by their thousands, year-on-year.

Both of these violent war crimes were defined (1800s, 1907, 1949) long before the 1967 war, and German officials were prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned, at Nuremberg, for doing it, the exact same thing, in Poland, in world war two.

War

Their first criminal lie has an antecedent. A second criminal lie, a second criminal conspiracy, launched in the preceding decade (1980s), by many of the same people.

This is their second criminal lie: That Hamas, and all Palestinians, are also criminals and terrorists, if they don’t target Israeli civilians, but target Israeli armed forces instead (the IDF); their chains of command are “terrorist organizations” and so too their political supporters.

So it was, on January 26 2006, Hamas politicians won a majority, in the election to the 88-seat Palestinian parliament, the Legislative Council, and Israel arrested them, victorious Hamas candidates. “Of 43 Hamas candidates elected to the Palestinian parliament from the West Bank, 41 are in prison” (Jimmy Carter, April 22 2008, “Trip Report by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan: April 13-22, 2008”). “Israel detained eight members of the Hamas-led government and 20 MPs on 29 June. Palestinians called that an act of war.” (BBC News, August 6 2006, “Israel holds Palestinian Speaker”). Obeying Israel’s orders, Fatah also routinely arrests Hamas politicans.

Israel arrests them for who they are, not for what they do. “An Israeli military court has sentenced the speaker of the Palestinian parliament to three years in prison for belonging to an illegal organisation. Aziz Dweik, a member of Islamist group Hamas, has already served more than two years and will be freed in August.” (BBC News, December 16 2008, “Israel jails Hamas speaker Dweik”). This, the very same Hamas the U.S.-Israel governments blessed, as a contending political party, in the election, expecting them to be defeated, at the polls.

This is 41 war crimes by Israel, because the laws of war do not entitle an occupying power (Israel) to pin a yellow star on people, and then arrest them, for wearing a yellow star.

Their second criminal lie, its formulation, can be glimpsed in their pronouncements, about the 1987 U.S. decision to not ratify Protocol-I (1977) to the 4 Geneva Conventions (1949).

This is the targeting protocol (plus other topics). It mostly restates, declares, defines with better particulars, the existing customary international targeting law of war, i.e., what it says is binding (in the opinion of the U.S. military and U.S. government), and wilful material violations of what the protocol says, these are war crimes, under international law and under U.S. military law — whether the U.S. ratifes it or not.

But not all of it. Protocol-I also has new provisions, which are not otherwise binding law, and the conspirators complained about some of these and some targeting wording (which criminalizes some U.S. military targeting doctrine, a topic for another day).

But their preoccupation, their main justification, the main reason they advanced, for not ratifying, was a provision in the protocol which asserts, that a “war of national liberation” is an “international” armed conflict (and so Protocol-I applies to it), i.e., a civil war in which other nations are entitled to participate, because of the international nature of its subject matter, typically, the overthrow of a criminal indigenous regime, or a colonial regime, a foreign occupier.

The conspirators said this is nonsense, that people who wage war to overthrow their own government, these people, inevitably, are criminals and terrorists.

The conspirators did not mention Israel or Palestine but, in retrospect, that’s obviously what they had in mind, what actuated their decision, what promoted their pronouncements, what induced them to lie about their opinion, they wanted to provide material support for Israel.

But what U.S. officials, the conspirators, condemned, it was then, and is now, plainly, customary international law, which stood in their way.

The U.N. Charter, it’s most pressing goal, is to defend peace against war. And two virulent threats, to international peace and security, are these: denial of human rights, and denial of self-determination.

A colonial regime denies both.

In theory, an imperial power can be benign, and govern honestly, in the interests of the occupied citizens. “Canadians know best.” They could govern the United States, for example, better than Americans can govern themselves. They could argue that. And it might transpire, for a while.

But not for long. A colonial regime, inevitably, will serve its foreign master, the foreign citizens of the foreign power. The individuals who take the decisions, in the colonial regime, they have their jobs, and their advancement to consider. They know their master will be served, or else its servant can look elsewhere, for a job.

Colonial powers routinely loot the natural resources of its wards (the usual motive of an imperial power). Colonial powers routinely oppress the citizens in their care, when those citizens complain about it. Violence, bribery, puppet governments, discrimination, devious laws, dishonest administration, these are tools of colonial powers.

Israel is a colonial power.

Israel occupied Palestinian territory, in the 6-day war (1967), and then, Israel proceeded to use its army (IDF), the government of the oPt, to loot the oPt of its natural resources, its prime land, its water, its economic livelihood, and when Palestinians complained about it, Israel defended its armed robbery, with violence, oppressed the victims, with its army (IDF), walls, ghettos, movement restrictions, a Bureaucracy of Evil (Ilan Pappé, forthcoming), a recreation of Nazi occupations, the same Nazi methods, but with improvements, less killing but more sadistic.

Many, most, nearly all, countries assert, that citizens thus oppressed, by a colonial regime, and a criminal regime, if they organize to wage war, to overthrow that regime, that war is legally justified. They say, it’s offensive war, but it’s not aggressive war, because its war-aim is lawful, to defend their human rights. They say, the fighters are prima facie lawful combatants of a “belligerent” (the organization of rebelling citizens). They say, the colonial/criminal regime treats them unlawfully (a war crime), when they label the fighters per se as “terrorists” and “criminals.” They say, any nation (e.g., Iran) is legally entitled, prima facie, to intervene and assist the freedom fighters.

What these nations say is documented — as the generally accepted view of customary international law — by many examples of past state practice, by tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of pages of documents, by thousands of hours of discussions, in the U.N., in its agencies, in other forums, over the past 40 years — the era of decolonization.

But this is not what the U.S. criminal liars say. They rubbish this view. In effect, they say, “This is not customary international law; no reasonable, informed, person can reasonably hold this view,” the very view held by most of the world’s governments.

They say, practically speaking, fighters in a war of national liberation are per se terrorists, that only states have the right to wage war.

George Schultz (Secretary of State) fronted the criminal conspiracy which incited the later transformation of this meritless argument (and therefore a prima facie dishonest argument, a “lie”) into a deemed fact, unlawfully enacted into law, adopted as the foundation of a violent, criminal, U.S. foreign policy. His Legal Adviser likely organized it (Abraham Sofaer). Other neocons, like Douglas Feith, propagandized for it. And George Schultz described who was responsible for it, an extensive U.S. government enterprise, many lawyers among them.

In his letter to Ronald Reagan (December 13 1986), George Schultz declared — in effect and without naming them — that Palestinian fighters are criminals:

Ronald Reagan poured fuel on the fire (January 29 1987):

Complicity

In a conflict between law and order, some prefer order to law, and desire victims of violent crime to submit, to the demands of violent criminals, to avoid a breach of the peace, a disturbance of their tranquility.

Gordon Brown, for example (U.K. prime minister).

Without a vote in Parliament — which he promised, he would always first secure — Gordon Brown, on TV, in Jerusalem, in the name of the U.K., he declared war on the Palestinians (January 18 2009). He harnessed the U.K. together with the U.S. and Israel, adding horsepower, to the world’s most deadly, most merciless, most criminal, war-mongering, troika.

Gordon Brown pledged, that U.K. armed forces would aid and abet Israel’s violent war crimes, and aggressive war, by preventing arms-smuggling for Palestinian fighters.

Gordon Brown pledged, that U.K. armed forces will help Israel blockade Gaza by sea (a blockade of non-contraband and humanitarian supplies, a war-crime, under international law), and by the tunnels from Egypt.

Gordon Brown pledged, that U.K. armed forces will help seal the sewers beneath the Warsaw Ghetto.

Will the U.K. miliary high command agree? to obey Gordon Brown’s criminal order? and commit themselves, as willing accessories? in Israel’s violent war-crimes?

I doubt it.

Gordon Brown might soon be humiliated, by the U.K. military high command. They’re not patsies. They lie, on orders, now and again, but they’re very adverse to putting themselves in the dock, in a war crimes tribunal.

Gordon Brown, before he declared war on the Palestinians, he surely got agreement from Jock Stirrup (Chief of the Defence Staff). It wouldn’t be the first time the Chief blessed a violent war crime. A predecessor (Terrence T. Lewin, at Chequers, May 2 1982, at noon), he blessed Margaret Thatcher, her ambush of the Belgrano, the particularly pernicious war crime of perfidy, emblematic of Perfidious Albion.

But Jock Stirrup won’t be commanding the bridge, when the Iranian merchant ship, carrying humanitarian supplies, approaches Gaza.

And so Jock Stirrup, he too, is in for a big dose of humiliation.

That U.K. warship commander, he will not obey a criminal order to blockade a humanitarian relief ship. He will stop it, and he will search it, for contraband (guns and ammo), but when he finds none, he will bid its captain “God speed,” and allow him to pass on, towards Gaza.

But will that U.K. warship commander then attack the Israeli blockade force, when they block or attack that innocent Iranian merchant ship, to suppress Israel’s violent war crime, the war crime of its axis ally, the coalition manager of the U.S.-U.K.-Israel warmonger troika.

That’s his duty, the U.K. warship commander, under the laws of war, if the Israeli blockade force refuses to obey his order, to let that Iranian ship pass (after they search it, if they want to).

Will he have courage? to do his duty? the U.K. warship commander? or is he a coward, and a criminal.

We’ll have to wait and see.

Meanwhile, I’m reserving a seat, in the dock, at the Hague war crimes tribunal, for a cowardly U.K. warship commander, should one emerge, from events, a seat next to his criminal commander, Jock Stirrup, and their political master, Gordon Brown.

Gordon Brown can certainly enforce order by force, and thumb his nose at law.

Gordon Brown can help Israel, imprison Palestinians in Gaza. Gordon Brown can help Israel, seal the tunnels into Egypt. Gordon Brown can help Israel, force Palestinians to accept their victim hood, the morsels of food Israel whimsically permits NGOs to toss them, now and again, while Israel busily robs their land, in the West Bank.

But Gordon Brown cannot, by his fiat decree, by his Führer order, decriminalize Israel’s violent war crimes.

Or his own.

German officials, they learned that lesson well, at Nuremberg. But not their descendents. Now, grown strong, they once again inhale the aroma of power, begin to strut, to scorn law, the judgments at Nuremberg, and why shouldn’t they, their prosecutors then (U.S., U.K., France) are their partners now, partners in violent crime. They feel immune, all of them together.

The violent criminal Angela Dorothea Kasner Merkel, German chancellor, likewise complicit in Israel’s violent war crimes.

The only thing Gordon Brown can do, by backing Israel, is to knowingly and willfully, with specific intent, join with Israel and be a violent criminal himself, eligible for trial and punishment by any country in the world which can manage to get its hands on him, him, and the rest of his violent criminal gang, of U.K. government officials.

Accessories to Israel’s violent war crimes, aiding and abetting, facilitating.

Even if naughty victims refuse to obey Gordon the Great, his Law of Submission, and even if they use force, to resist the violent crimes against them —

Even Gordon the Great can’t transform lawful violent resistance, by victims, into a crime.

Even Gordon the Great can’t transform Israel’s armed robbery — Israel’s looting of Palestinian land and water — even Gordon the Great cannot transform that violent war crime into a lawful urban renewal project, a confiscation of land in the nature of eminent domain.

Even Gordon the Great can’t transform 500,000 Israel settlers into lawful residents, on stolen land, Israel’s war crime, permitting the transfer of their citizens into the oPt, the 1967 Israeli occupied Palestinian territory.

The only thing Gordon the Great can do is decide what will Gordon the Great do. And he made his decision. Gordon Brown has united with Israel, to aid and abet, facilitate, Israel’s violent war crimes.

The decision by the Israeli government, in the far long ago, to use its army (IDF), to rob the land it occupied in 1967, and to populate that stolen land with Israeli citizens, this is a criminal decision, and those actions are war crimes, defined and settled, long before that 1967 war.

This criminal Israeli decision, and these violent Israeli war crimes, they have nothing to do with anything the Palestinians do, or don’t do, ever did, or ever didn’t do. Nothing whatsoever.

These are relentless, violent, war crimes, for more than 40 years — by each complicit individual Israeli official and by each complicit U.S./U.K. official, who conspires, incites, aids and abets, facilitates, Israel’s violent war crimes, with money, arms, and diplomatic support.

For these violent war crimes, by these U.S./U.K. and Israeli officials, there is no defense, no justification, no excuse.

Charles Judson Harwood Jr., WarLaw

From Nashville Tennessee:
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Montgomery Bell Academy (1956-1960)
Vanderbilt University (1960-1964, BA 1964)
Vanderbilt Law School (1964-1967, JD 1967)
Tennessee Bar No. 005483 (August 12 1967) (lawyer)

 

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Posted Jan. 20 2009. Updated April 24 2009.

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