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1967 oPt: Israeli occupied Palestinian territory, Jimmy Carter's book tour (2006-2007)

2002-2006: interviews, news, events, comment, context

Tough Love: Jimmy Carter, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

 

by Charles Judson Harwood Jr.

 

2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., 2007 Jan., Feb., March, April, May, June, July, August, Sept., Oct, Nov., Dec., 2008 Jan., Feb., March, April, May, June, July

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< 2002 >

 

Michael Ben-Yair (Israel attorney general, 1993-1996 Dec. 31), “The war's seventh day {copy, pf, copy, rss, rss, menu, search} (Haaretz, Tel Aviv, Sunday March 3 2002).

“ Michael Ben-Yair: The Six-Day War ...

[T]he war’s seventh day, which began on June 12, 1967 and has continued to this day, is the product of our choice.

We enthusiastically chose to become a colonial society, ignoring international treaties, expropriating lands, transferring settlers from Israel to the occupied territories, engaging in theft and finding justification for all these activities.

Passionately desiring to keep the occupied territories, we developed two judicial systems: one — progressive, liberal — in Israel; and the other — cruel, injurious — in the occupied territories.

In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture.

That oppressive regime exists to this day.”

 

umist

The Israel Lobby
Settlements
Blockade, reprisals
Bombing Iran
War Crimes Act
Iran uranium timeline
Iraq wmd war timeline: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005-2006, 2007-2008
Congress debates, votes

Ilan Pappé (senior lecturer in political science, University of Haifa, chair, Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa), interviewed by Greg Dropkin (founder, webmaster, LabourNet UK), “Israeli Jewish myths and the prospect of American war{81kb.pdf}, part of this video: A State of Denial: An interview with Dr Ilan Pappe {44:01, 161mb.flv, source}, audio {44:01, 40.3mb.mp3, source} (Joseph Cooper, producer/editor), which also features excerpts from Ilan Pappé’s lecture, later that same day of the interview, in the evening, “The Deterioration of Democracy and Liberalism in Israel,” remarks (speech, Q&As), moderated by Paul Kelemen (lecturer, School of Social Sciences) (UMIST: University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, now part of ManUni: University of Manchester, “Britain’s largest single-site university,” Roscoe building, lecture theatre 'B', Brunswick Street, Manchester England, Wednesday September 11 2002, 6pm, sponsors: JfJfP: Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Manchester PSC: Palestine Solidarity Campaign, NW England Friends of Peace Now).

Portions of this video interview of Ilan Pappé are included in Occupation 101 (Triple Eye Films, 90 minutes, first film festival screening: March 2 2006, DVD released: May 15 2007), a film by Sufyan Omeish, Abdallah Omeish (producers, directors), winner of 7 film awards, this being one of 34 interviews in the film (“Award-winning documentary film on the root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The film depicts life in occupied Palestine under Israeli military rule.”).

Subsequently, Ilan Pappé, author, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications, Oxford England, published October 12-19 2006, U.S. November 20) {U.K., U.S., Germany}, forthcoming, Ilan Pappé, The Bureaucracy of Evil: The History of the Israeli Occupation (Oneworld, July 1 2010) {U.K., U.S.}.

Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As) (University of London, SOAS: School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H, Monday September 16 2002, 6-8:30pm, sponsor, Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition), remarks published, Ilan Pappe, “The '48 Nakba & The Zionist Quest for its Completion{ipappe, pf, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy, copy} (Between the Lines, volume 2, number 18, October 2002).

Jimmy Carter (U.S. President, Jan. 20 1977-1981 Jan. 20), interviewed in Oslo Norway by Tim Sebastian (BBC News, HARDtalk, BBC World, BBC News 24, Tuesday December 10 2002, BBC TV-2, Saturday December 14 2002) {BBCcat andm378l}, video {23:30, 6.64mb.rm, rss menu, search, search, search, a/v, a/v, rss}, transcript, “Jimmy Carter,” reported, “Continuing to search for peace” (BBC News, December 10 2002).

 

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< 2004 >

 

Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2004 I.C.J. 136 (U.N. I.C.J.: International Court of Justice, The Hague, Advisory Opinion, July 9 2004) {8.1mb.pdf, source}, ICJ summary {128.5kb.pdf, source} {UNBISnet: ICJ883, ISBN: 9210709934, LCCN: 2001380451, OCLC: 156587491, WorldCat}, series, I.C.J. Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders {UNBISnet, ISSN: 0074-4441, LCCN, UCal}, U.N. Doc. A/ES-10/273 (July 16 2004) {469kb.pdf, UNBISnet, browse}.

Maps

Map of Security Fence Project (“Revised route of the security fence according to the government decision of April 30, 2006”) {2.6mb.jpg, source} (“Revised route of the security fence, updated map as of April 30th 2006”) (IDFMU, map scale 1:200,000).
Map of Security Fence Project (“Revised route of the security fence as of April 2007”) {7.25mb.jpg, source} (Israel Ministry of Defense, IDFMU: Israel Defense Forces, Aman: Military Intelligence Directorate, MU: Mapping Unit, map scale 1:250,000).

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Source: (for those below): U.N. OCHA-oPt: Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, occupied Palestinian territory {maps: barriers, closures}, copy: OCHA, ReliefWeb, Complex Emergency: Occupied Palestinian Territory (CE)) {maps}.
West Bank Barrier Route (map, June 2007) {464kb.pdf, barriers, copy, source}.
West Bank Barrier Update (map, April 2007) {293kb.pdf, source}, “on 30 April 2006, the Israeli cabinet approved a revised route ... the revisions include ...”
West Bank Barrier Route Projections (map, April 2007) {with the previous map, separate earlier versions: 436kb.pdf, 547kb.pdf, barriers}, 712 km, 80% of it seizing 10.17% of the West Bank and East Jerusalem (142,130 acres, 57,518 hectares), isolating 200,000 Palestinians in guarded ghettos.
The next maps depict additional confiscations: barricaded settlements, networks of barricaded roads (which double as internal “barriers”), right of free passage, access rights to extensive “closed areas.”
West Bank & Gaza Strip Closure Maps (April 2007) {7.20mb.pdf, closures}, inside the occupied territories: “a 17 pages booklet with in-detail maps of all governorates, key figures, and barrier projections. Detailed maps of Hebron's old city and East Jerusalem.”
West Bank Closure Photo Album (May 2 2007) {9.62mb.pdf, closures}, inside the occupied territories: photos of tools, erected by the occupying power, to block access and restrict movement, inside the occupied territories, by the occupied population, and to alter and control their behavior, marked on maps by symbols, with these names: “checkpoint, earthmound, road block, road gate, earth wall, trench, road barrier, passage, observation tower.”
West Bank: Effect of closure and permit regime on Palestinian movement (map, November 2006) {308kb.pdf, closures, copy, source}, inside the occupied territories: “permit required for all 'closed areas' ... effective partitions due to closure policy.”
Fragmentation of the West Bank (map, May 7 2007) {508kb.pdf, closures, copy, source}, inside the occupied territories: “Israeli settlements, roads primarily for settler use, closed military zones ... checkpoints, underpasses.”
West Bank: Access and Closures (map, April 19 2007) {8.27mb.pdf, closures, summary}.
South Qalqiliya (map, July 2 2007) {367kb.pdf, barriers, copy, source}.
North Tulkarm (map, July 2 2007) {508kb.pdf, barriers, copy, source}.

ucla

Ilan Pappé, “Israel's Road Map to Nowhere: The End of the Peace Process?,” remarks (speech, Q&As), moderated by Gabriel Piterberg (associate professor, department of history) (UCLA: University of California, Los Angeles, CSTCH: Center for Social Theory and Comparative History, venue: SPA: School of Public Affairs building, room 2343, Los Angeles California, Monday November 15 2004, 2-4pm PT), audio {1:07:00} (CD No. 30, $11) (Global Voices for Justice, Long Beach California).

 

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< 2005 >

 

Ilan Pappé (senior lecturer in political science, University of Haifa, chair, Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa, author), “To boldly go: Haifa University academic Ilan Pappe is one of the few Israelis supporting the university boycott of Israel. Here he explains why.” {pf, search, search, ipappe, pf, source, linked, source} (EducationGuardian, a weekly supplement to The Guardian, London, Wednesday April 20 2005).

tour

Ilan Pappé, California speaking tour (October 26-30 2005).

Ilan Pappé, interviewed in 2004, “Ilan Pappe Interview” (Alternate Focus, “Broadcasting the other side of the story,” San Diego California, Chuck Orr (narrator), Al Maaz, George Nassar (camera), Benjamin Calloway-Jones (audio), John Odam, Tobis Films (post production)), also broadcast, as part of the series, “America, Israel and Palestine: Cause and Effect” (Global Information Services, Greenbrae California) (“films series for PATS: public access television, PBS: Public Broadcasting Service, film festivals, et al.”), broadcasts, Berkeley, South Marin County, Novato, San Francisco California, Groton Connecticut, Oahu Hawaii, Vancouver Washington, 2005-2008), e.g., “Ilan Pappe Interview” (BCM: Berkeley Community Media, B-TV 28, Alternate Focus, Berkeley California, October 20, 30, 31, November 4, 2005), AF video, “Ilan Pappe Interview{28:31, 42mb.mp4, 85mb.flv, archive} (Blip.tv, Middle-East-Series, streaming/download video archive, posted February 5 2008) {rss, search, search}.

BDS
(boycott, divestment, sanctions)

“ Ilan Pappé: Every other means, in the last 38 years, have failed.”

Ilan Pappé, Zeev Maoz (UCD: University of California, Davis, professor of political science, director, international relations program), interviewed by Mary Ambrose, “Is it time to divest from Israel? A debate between Ilan Pappe (Haifa University) and Ze'ev Maoz (UC Davis)” (Radio KALW, Your Call, San Francisco, Wednesday October 26 2005, 11am-noon PT), audio {61:30 at 6:28-58:17, 14.4mb.rm, source, rss, menu, search, linked, source}.

Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), “Israel and Palestine: The Peace Charade,” introduced by Mahmood Ibrahim (chair, department of history, Cal Poly Pomona: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona), moderated by Sonali Kolhatkar (host, Pacifica, radio KPFK, Uprising Radio) (Westwood United Methodist Church, 10497 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, Wednesday October 26 2005, 7-10pm) {search} (co-sponsors: WiB-LA: Women in Black-Los Angeles, PAS: Palestine Aid Society, MPAC: Muslim Public Affairs Council, CAIR-Southern California), audio {1:15:00}, “Israel and Palestine: The Peace Charade” (CD No. 29, $11) (Global Voices for Justice, Long Beach California).

kpfa

Ilan Pappé, interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman, introduced by Dennis Bernstein (Pacifica, radio KPFA, Flashpoints, Berkeley California, Friday October 28 2005, 5-6pm PT, and KFCF, Fresno California) (“59,000 watts ... our signal reaches one third of the state ... founded in 1949 ... the first community supported radio station in the USA”), audio {59:50 at 26:46-39:03, 10.2mb.mp3, rss, podcasts, source, source, archive, archive, search, search, linked, source} (“a special segment with Israeli dissident Dr. Ilan Pappe on the stepped-up ethnic cleansing of Palestine”).

Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As) (Calvary Presbyterian Church, Social Witness program, 2515 Fillmore Street, San Francisco, Friday October 28 2005), transcript (introduction), audio {44:15, 40.5mb.mp3, source, source, search, linked, source}, Jeffrey Blankfort (producer), “Ilan Pappe: Sanctioning and Divesting from Israel and Afterward” (A-Infos Radio Project, radio4all.net, Watkins Glen New York) (“Israeli professor Ilan Pappe speaks to Presbyterian audience on the need for sanctioning and divesting from Israel as necessary to achieve a just one-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict”).

Ilan Pappé, interviewed Saturday October 29 2005 by Steve Zeltzer, “One on One: Labor, Zionism and Palestinians, an interview with Israeli University lecturer Ilan Pappe on the Israel-Palestine conflict” (Labor Video Project, Labor on the Job, Comcast cable TV channel 29, San Francisco, Friday November 25 2005, 6:30-7:30pm PT, and Sacramento, Philadelphia, Kalamazoo Michigan) (“the longest running labor cable show in the United States, since 1983”), transcript/audio {57:00, 52.2mb.mp3, rss, source, source, search} (slow download), Jeffrey Blankfort (producer), Claudine Faehndrich (transcriber), “Ilan Pappe on the Israel-Palestine conflict” (A-Infos Radio Project, radio4all.net, Watkins Glen New York, posted March 3 2006), audio/transcript copy {57:00, 28.9mb.mp3, search} (ICH: Information Clearing House, posted March 4 2006). “Labor on the Job interviews Israeli university lecturer Ilan Pappe about his struggle for equal rights in Israel and the boycott of Bar-Ilan and Haifa by the UK Association of University Teachers for the harassment of him and his student.” “Professor Ilan Pappe (Haifa University) on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Professor Pappe speaks about Zionism, the Palestinian Nakba, teaching the truth in Israel, the desirability of a one-state solution, Israel-Palestinian labor relations and divestment.”

Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), introduced by Khalil Barhoum, “Boycott, Divestment, and Apartheid” (First Congregational Church of Oakland, United Church of Christ, 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland California, Saturday October 29 2005, 7:30-9pm) (cosponsors: Firedoll Foundation, KPFA 94.1FM, Vanguard Public Foundation, American Friends Service Committee, Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace/Bay Area, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco, Global Exchange, International Solidarity Movement/Bay Area, Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for a Free Palestine, Media Alliance, Students for Justice in Palestine/UC Berkeley, and SUSTAIN/Bay Area, MECA: Middle East Children's Alliance), later broadcast (about 33%), introduced by Malihe Razazan (Pacifica, radio KPFA, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Berkeley California, Wednesday February 1 2006, 7-8pm PT, and KFCF, Fresno California) (“59,000 watts ... our signal reaches one third of the state ... founded in 1949 ... the first community supported radio station in the USA”), audio {59:50, 36:40 at 3:20-40:00, 10.2mb.mp3, rss, podcasts, source, archive} (“This Wednesday night, as part of KPFA’s winter fund drive, we will hear a talk by Professor Ilan Pappe of Haifa University titled Boycott, Divestment and Apartheid. Dr. Pappe is a senior lecturer in political science at Haifa University. He is well known as a revisionist Israeli Historian and as a critic of Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians. His recent books include The Modern Middle East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine (2003), The Israeli-Palestine Question (1999), and The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 (1992).”), subsequently, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications, Oxford England, published October 12-19 2006, U.S. November 20) {U.K., U.S., Germany}.

Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), “Gaza: The Great Deception – with Historian Ilan Pappe” (Stanford University, Building 320 Room 105, Braun Corner, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford California, Sunday October 30 2005, 3pm), events {search}, poster: “Disengagement from the Gaza Strip: Its aftermath and prospects for peace, with award-winning historian & Israeli equal rights advocate Ilan Pappe” {218kb.jpg, source} (Ilan Pappé: “The path to peace is one Americans and even South Africans have already adopted: Equal rights. In our case, that means equal rights for everyone, in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, regardless of whether they are Jewish, Muslim, or Christian.”) (cosponsors: ICA/IR: Division of International Comparative and Area Studies, International Relations, CaSA: Department of Cultural and Social Anthroplogy, CJME: Coalition for Justice in the Middle East, Stanford University, OASIS: Organization of Arab Students In Stanford, MSAN: Muslim Student Awareness Network at Stanford University, SAAAC: Stanford Asian American Activism Committee), reported, Ada Yee, “Israeli prof takes pro-Palestinian stance in speech” (The Stanford Daily, Monday October 31 2005) {archive, search}.

 

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< 2006 >

 

Norman Finkelstein (DePaul University, assistant professor of political science), Shlomo Ben-Ami (Israel minister of public security, 1999-2000, foreign minister, 2000-2001), debate, moderated by Amy Goodman (host), “Fmr. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami Debates Outspoken Professor Norman Finkelstein on Israel, the Palestinians, and the Peace Process” (Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report, New York City, February 14 2006), DemNow video {54:03, 97.10mb.rm}, Google video {55:00, 117mb.flv, .flv.mp4, search}, DemNow broadcast audio {54:00, 13.81mb.rm}, full debate audio {1:31:51, 42.05mb.mp3}, DemNow broadcast transcript {pf}, full debate transcript {copy, source}.

soton

Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), “Zionist Fables from Left to Right: From Herzel to Sharon” (Soton: University of Southampton, Highfield Campus, Physics Lecture Theatre A (46:3001), Southampton Hampshire England, Friday February 24 2006, 7:30pm), reported, Malcolm Levitt, “Ilan Pappe” (Viewpoint, “A forum for independent internal comment within the University of Southampton,” issue 451, May 17 2006) {831kb.pdf, source}, letters/reply, Natan Meir (Lecturer in History, member of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations), Tobias Brinkmann (Lecturer in Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish Relations), reply by Malcolm Levitt, “Letters. Ilan Pappe” (Viewpoint, issue 452, July 6 2006) {831kb.pdf}.

Ilan Pappé, remarks (speech, Q&As), moderated by Ussama Makdisi (associate professor of history), “The Peace Charade in Palestine and Israel” (Rice University, Dean of Humanities, History Department, lecture series, “The Arab World: History, Politics, and Culture,” Farnsworth Pavilion, RMC/LSC: Rice Memorial Center, Ley Student Center, 6100 Main Street, Houston Texas, Tuesday February 28 2006, 7-9pm CT) (cosponsors: AAEF: Arab-American Educational Foundation, Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy), poster {632kb.pdf, source, 1.5mb.pdf, source}, Rice video (rm, wm) {1:28:49, Q&As at 50:15, 227mb.rm, 386mb.wmv, source, search}, later broadcast (48-minute edit), introduced by Said Fattouh, audio {60:32 at 9:58-58:55, 10.3mb.mp3, rss, source, search} (Pacifica, radio KPFT, Arab Voices, Houston-Galveston, Wednesday October 4 2006, 7-8pm CT).

Jimmy Carter, remarks (speech, Q&As), “The Major Obstacles to Peace in the Holy Land{pf}, “Peace versus Democracy in Palestine: A Conversation with Jimmy Carter,” presiding, Thomas R. Pickering (senior vice president, international relations, The Boeing Company) (CFR: Council on Foreign Relations, New York City, March 2 2006), FNS transcript {copy} {Carter archive, CFR archive}, video {1:03:37, 108.7mb.wmv, 188.26mb.mp4}, audio {21.9mb.mp3}.

Jimmy Carter, “Colonization of Palestine Precludes Peace{pf, copy, copy, copy} (Carter Center, Atlanta, March 13 2006) (“This op-ed was published in Haaretz {Friday March 17 2006, text, pf} and at least 70 other newspapers worldwide”), reported, Chris McGreal (Jerusalem), “Israel's colonisation of Palestine blocking peace, says Jimmy Carter{pf} (The Guardian, London, Saturday March 18 2006).

John J. Mearsheimer (professor of political science, co-director, Program on International Security Policy, University of Chicago), Stephen M. Walt (professor of international affairs, academic dean 2002-2006, KSG: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), “The Israel Lobby” (London Review of Books, volume 28 number 6, dated March 23 2006), footnoted version, John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy{1411kb.pdf, copy} (Working Paper Number: RWP06-011, March 13 2006, Faculty Research Working Paper Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) (“about 250,000 downloads,” as of about May 1: Walt, speaking on C-Span, June 23 2006), response to responses, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, “Letters: The Israel Lobby{copy} (London Review of Books, volume 28 number 9, dated May 11 2006).

“ Mearsheimer, Walt. The United States has become the de facto enabler of Israeli expansion in the Occupied Territories, making it complicit in the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians.”

Criminal facilitation

“ A person is guilty of criminal facilitation in the second degree when, believing it probable that he is rendering aid to a person who intends to commit a class A felony, he engages in conduct which provides such person with means or opportunity for the commission thereof and which in fact aids such person to commit such class A felony.”

New York Penal Code, § 115.05, accord, Arizona, § 13-1004 (“knowingly provides the other person with means or opportunity for the commission of the offense”); Kentucky, § 506.080 (“knowingly provides such person with means or opportunity for the commission of the crime”); North Dakota, § 12.1-06-02 (“knowingly provides substantial assistance to a person intending to commit a felony”); Tennessee, § 39-11-403 (“knowingly furnishes substantial assistance in the commission of the felony”); Guam, § 9-4.65 (“knowingly furnishes substantial assistance to him”); United States, 18 U.S.C. 18 U.S.C. § 2339A (“provides material support or resources ... knowing or intending that they are to be used in preparation for, or in carrying out ... 35 different crimes), and see, Model Penal Code § 206, commentary (American Law Institute) {LCClass: KF9219, ditto, ditto, LCCNs: 80050699, 84051700}.

“ § 2339A. Providing material support to terrorists

(a) Offense.— Whoever provides material support or resources ... knowing ... they are to be used in preparation for, or in carrying out, a violation of section ... 956 ... or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 15 years, or both, and, if the death of any person results, shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.”

18 U.S.C. § 2339A. And see, 18 U.S.C. § 956 (“Conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim, or injure persons or damage property in a foreign country”). Query: Does this include armed robbery? of Palestinian land and water?

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

“ Part 2. Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Applicable Law

Article 8
War crimes

1. The Court shall have jurisdiction in respect of war crimes in particular when committed as part of a plan or policy or as part of a large-scale commission of such crimes.

2. For the purpose of this Statute, "war crimes" means:

(a) Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, namely, any of the following acts against persons or property protected under the provisions of the relevant Geneva Convention: ...

(iii) Wilfully causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or health;

(iv) Extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly; ...

(vii) Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement;

(viii) Taking of hostages.

(b) Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in international armed conflict, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts: ...

(viii) The transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies, or the deportation or transfer of all or parts of the population of the occupied territory within or outside this territory; ...

(xiii) Destroying or seizing the enemy's property unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war; ...

(xxv) Intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare by depriving them of objects indispensable to their survival, including wilfully impeding relief supplies as provided for under the Geneva Conventions; 

Part 3. General Principles of Criminal Law

Article 25
Individual criminal responsibility

3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person: ...

(c) For the purpose of facilitating the commission of such a crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission;

(d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:

(i) Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or

(ii) Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime; ...

* * *

Article 30.
Mental element

1. Unless otherwise provided, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court only if the material elements are committed with intent and knowledge.

2. For the purposes of this article, a person has intent where:

(a) In relation to conduct, that person means to engage in the conduct;

(b) In relation to a consequence, that person means to cause that consequence or is aware that it will occur in the ordinary course of events.

3. For the purposes of this article, "knowledge" means awareness that a circumstance exists or a consequence will occur in the ordinary course of events. "Know" and "knowingly" shall be construed accordingly.”

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (adopted July 17 1998, entered into force January 7 2002), 2187 U.N.T.S. 3 {1.02mb.pdf, cod, 218kb.pdf, icc} (t.reg. 38544), status {126kb.pdf, 101kb.xml} (mtgsc) (108 parties) (ICC, The Hague).  CJHjr

The Israel Lobby?” (Radio WGBH, Open Source, Boston, April 4 2006, 7:00-8:00 p.m. ET), Christopher Lydon (host), interviewing Steve Clemons, Daniel Levy, Daniel Drezner, audio {52:00, 47.62kb.mp3, archive, rss, menu, rss, rss, rss rss}, broadcast by 33 U.S. radio stations (via PRI: Public Radio International, Open Source from PRI) (July 4 2005-2007 June 30) and by satellite radio (XMPR: XM Public Radio, XM channel 133, April 5, 3:00-4:00 a.m. ET).

Tony Judt (professor of european studies, director Remarque Institute, NYU: New York University), “A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy{copy} (The New York Times, April 19 2006) (“American influence in that part of the world now rests almost exclusively on our power to make war: which means in the end that it is no influence at all. ... Europeans, Latin Americans, Africans or Asians. Why, they ask, has America chosen to lose touch with the rest of the international community on this issue? Americans may not like the implications of this question. But it is pressing. It bears directly on our international standing and influence; and it has nothing to do with anti-Semitism.)”

Deborah Amos (foreign correspondent), introduced by Renée Montagne, “Paper on Israel Lobby Sparks Heated Debate” (NPR: National Public Radio, Morning Edition, Washington D.C., Friday April 21 2006, 5-7am, at 5:21-5:29 a.m. ET) (hour-1, segment-b) {317kb.pdf}, NPR transcript, audio (ditto, ditto) {7:46, 2.5mb.rm, 8.15mb.wma, rss, rss, menu, menu} {player} (2-hour program audio segments).

Michael Massing, “The Storm over the Israel Lobby” (The New York Review of Books, volume 53 number 10, dated June 8 2006). “The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that analyzes political contributions, lists a total of thirty-six pro-Israel PACs, which together contributed $3.14 million to candidates in the 2004 election cycle. Pro-Israel donors give many millions more ... What AIPAC wants can be summed up very succinctly: a powerful Israel free to occupy the territory it chooses; enfeebled Palestinians; and unquestioning support for Israel by the United States ... while AIPAC focuses most of its efforts on Congress, the executive branch is more often lobbied by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations ... the heads of more than fifty American Jewish organizations.”

John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt (studio), Dennis Ross, Steven Spiegel, James Thurber (telephone), interviewed by Diane Rehm, “Israel's Influence” (NPR: National Public Radio, Radio WAMU, The Diane Rehm Show, Washington D.C., Wednesday June 21 2006, 10am-noon at 10-11:00 a.m. ET) (“Two political scientists argue that the Israel lobby wields extraordinary influence over U.S. foreign policy. We’ll hear different perspectives on its power in Washington.”), audio {51:20, 6.15mb.rm, 11.0mb.wma asx, rss menu, menu, rss menu} (their first radio appearance, since publishing their paper, on March 23 2006).

John Mearsheimer (Chicago), Stephen Walt (Cambridge Massachusetts), interviewed by Brian Lamb (C-Span founder and CEO), “Lobbying for Israel” (C-Span, Washington Journal, Washington D.C., June 23 2006, 7-10am at 9-10am ET), C-Span video (deleted) (copy, request) {1:00:30, smil, sehedule, 186638890, 193069-3, rss, archive, search: Mearsheimer, Walt, IsPal, library: Mearsheimer, Walt, IsPal} (their first TV appearance, since publishing their paper, on March 23 2006), transcript.

John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, interviewed by Steve Inskeep, introduced by Lynn Neary (NPR: National Public Radio, Morning Edition, Washington D.C., Thursday July 6 2006, 5-7am, at 5:21-5:29 a.m. ET) (hour-1, segment-b) {317kb.pdf}, “Researchers Say U.S. Policy Influenced by Israel,” NPR transcript, FNS transcript (none) {Walt|Mearsheimer|Lobby archive, ME archive}, audio (ditto, ditto) {7:45, 2.5mb.rm, 8.13mb.wma, rss, rss, menu, menu} {player} (2-hour program audio segments).

Dennis Ross (WINEP), interviewed by Steve Inskeep (NPR: National Public Radio, Morning Edition, Washington D.C., Friday July 7 2006, 5-7am, at 5:21-5:26 a.m. ET) (hour-1, segment-b, first item) {317kb.pdf}, “Former Envoy: Israel Lobby Not All-Powerful,” NPR transcript, FNS transcript (none) {Ross|Lobby archive}, audio (ditto, ditto) {5:07, 1.65mb.rm, 5.39mb.wma} {player} (2-hour program audio segments).

John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, interviewed by Paige Austin, “Grabbing the Third Rail{pf} (Mother Jones, San Francisco, July 18 2006).

John Mearsheimer, interviewed by Ken Nash, Mimi Rosenberg (Pacifica, radio WBAI, Building Bridges, 120 Wall Street 10th Floor, New York City, Monday July 24 2006, 7-8pm ET), announced (broadcast, podcast), segment audio {27:57, 6.4mb.mp3, rss, source, 25.61mb.mp3, rss, source, r4all archive, rss}, entire hour audio {wbai archive, rss}, broadcast by 14 radio stations. “The U.S. commitment to Israel is due primarily to the activities of the "Israel Lobby." Mearsheimer discusses the various activities that pro-Israel groups have undertaken in order to shift U.S. foreign policy.”

Roger Hurwitz, “The Israel Lobby” (The New York Review of Books, volume 53 number 13, dated August 10 2006): “They, however, are on firmer ground than Massing in emphasizing the lasting impression that Senator Charles Percy's loss in 1984 made on Capitol Hill.

It still reverberated in 1990, when I and other Jewish doves lobbied legislators to support a Sense of Congress resolution. The resolution called on Israel to reopen the Palestinian universities that it had recently closed in response to the (first) intifadah.

Among the offices I stopped at was that of Joseph Kennedy, then my own representative. I did hesitantly recall that a Palestinian had taken the life of his father. Kennedy was not in, so I explained my purpose to his legislative aide for foreign affairs. She immediately responded: "We can't support that." When I asked why, she said: "Because of Chuck Percy and the Lobby."

I found that ironic. My own father, a Zionist leader in Chicago, had organized the significant Jewish support that helped elect Percy to the Senate in 1966, because Israeli officials told him the incumbent was too sympathetic to Palestinians. In 1984, my father worked again to defeat the incumbent—this time Percy himself—for the same reason.”

John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt, remarks (speeches, Q&As), introduced by Nihad Awad (executive director, CAIR), moderated by Corey Saylor (government affairs director, CAIR), “The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in Lebanon” (sponsor: CAIR: Council on American-Islamic Relations, venue: National Press Club, Holeman Lounge, 529 14th Street NW, Washington D.C., Monday August 28 2006, 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET), CAIR transcript {113kb.pdf}, notice, report, C-Span video (copy: rm, wmv, request) {1:27:20, 84.51mb.rm, smil, schedule, 186638890, 194052-1, rss, archive, search: Mearsheimer, Walt, IsPal, library: Mearsheimer, Walt, IsPal}, Fora.tv C-Span video copy {1:26:38, 7 Q&As at 27:00, 218mb.flv, source, rss, rss, menu}, EP audio {1:24:07, 57.7mb.mp3, rss, rss, archive, archive, search, search, search} (George Kenney, Electric Politics, Washington D.C.), comment, Paul Craig Roberts, “The Five Morons Revisited{pf} (Antiwar.com, August 30 2006).

 

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Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2004 I.C.J. 136 (U.N. I.C.J.: International Court of Justice, The Hague, Advisory Opinion, July 9 2004) {8.1mb.pdf, source}, ICJ summary {128.5kb.pdf, source}, U.N. Doc. A/ES-10/273 (July 16 2004) {469kb.pdf, UNBISnet, browse}.

John Dugard, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967 (U.N. Doc. A/HRC/2/5, Geneva, published Tuesday September 5 2006, 22 pages, UNHRC: U.N. Human Rights Council, 2nd session) {91kb.pdf, also via this, this, OHCHR, this, this, and ODS}.

15th plenary meeting (conference room 28, Tuesday afternoon September 26 2006, 3:05-6:10pm CEST, UNHRC: U.N. Human Rights Council, 2nd regular session, Palais des Nations, Geneva, September 18-6 October, November 27-29 2006), reported, “UN says Gaza crisis 'intolerable'{pf} (BBC News, Friday September 26 2006, 6:10pm GMT).

 

•• Agenda (HRC 2nd session, “Order of the Day: Tuesday, 26 September 2006,” U.N. Doc. A/HRC/2/OD.7) {124kb.pdf, 164kb.doc}, “Presentation of reports followed by interactive dialogue” (deliberations rescheduled from March 2006, when this human rights institution was reorganized, by U.N. General Assembly resolution A/Res/60/251, “Human Rights Council,” March 15 2006), agenda segment, “Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967: E/CN.4/2006/29,” oral presentation by John Dugard (Special Rapporteur), and oral statements about, his annual report to the Council’s predecessor, UNCHR: U.N. Commission on Human Rights (U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/2006/29, January 17 2006, 21 pages).

•• Prepared oral statements menu (HRC Extranet, via password login).

•• Video {1:10:15}, part-1 {1:00:35, 45.4mb.rm, source, archive}, video part-2 {9:40, 6.7mb.rm}, segments: Luis Alfonso de Alba (Mexico, president of the U.N. Human Rights Council, presiding), introduction {1:01, 833kb.rm}, Special Rapporteur (John Dugard) {10:17, 29mb.rm}, Israel (Itzhak Levanon) {5:40}, Palestine (Mohammad Abu-Koash) {6:23}, Tunisia (Ali Cherif) {2:45}, Pakistan (Masood Khan) (on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Conference) {3:05}, Morocco (Mohammed Loulichki) {3:04}, Mousa Burayzat (Jordan, vice-president of the Council) substituted as chairman of the meeting, Malaysia (Idham Bin Musa Moktar) {2:25}, Algeria (Idriss Jazairy) {3:01}, Finland (Tapani Kivela) (on behalf of the European Union) {1:55}, India (Munu Mahawar) {1:55}, Bangladesh (Mustafizur Rahman) {2:32}, Cuba (Rodolfo Reyes Rodriguez) {1:50}, U.S. (Warren W. Tichenor) {2:08, text}, Iran (Forouzandeh Vadiati) {1:23}, Japan (Shigeru Endo) {1:38}, Syria (Ayman Raad) {2:16}, Senegal (Abdoul Wahab Haidara) {2:04}, Canada (Karim Amegan) {0:49}, Indonesia (Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja) {1:58}, Ecuador (Galo Larenas Serrano) {1:40}, Bahrain (Abdulla Abdullatif Abdulla) {2:17}, Saudi Arabia (Abdulwahab Abdulsalam Attar) {1:55}, Brazil (Sérgio Abreu E Lima Florencio) {1:34}, Mali (Fatoumata Diall) {1:05}, Special Rapporteur (John Dugard, reply) {8:38}.

•• Summary Record of the 15th Meeting, Held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on Tuesday, 26 September 2006, at 3 p.m. (HRC 2nd session) (U.N. Doc. A/HRC/2/SR.15, 21 pages) {175kb.pdf (French), also via this, this, this, OHCHR, this, this, this, this, and ODS}.

•• Report, Mousa Burayzat (Jordan, HRC vice-president and rapporteur), Report to the General Assembly on the Second Session of the Human Rights Council (U.N. Doc. A/HRC/2/9, March 22 2007, 84 pages) {261kb.pdf, also via this, this, this, OHCHR, this, this, and ODS}.

 

•• John Dugard, HRC video {10:17, 29mb.rm, source} (U.N. hrc2r15: Human Rights Council, 2nd regular session, 15th plenary meeting, Geneva, Tuesday September 26 2006, 3-6pm, at 3:32-3:42pm CEST) (captions added, paragraph numbers from his prepared oral statement) (HRCExtranet, session 2R15 menu):

“ John Dugard (special rapporteur):

1. ... This explains why, today, I am not going to speak about Israeli actions against Palestinian militants and politicians.

Instead, I shall speak only about Israeli actions against ordinary, non-militant, non-activist, Palestinians.

Who simply want to lead a good life, with their families and friends, who wish to educate their children for a better life, and who wish to enjoy the basic amenities of life.

I hope that my portrayal of the hardships experienced by such people will trouble the consciences of those accustomed to turning a blind eye, and a deaf ear, to the suffering of the Palestinian people.

2. I have been Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) since 2001.

From a human rights perspective, the situation has deteriorated each year until the present time, which is intolerable, appalling, tragic — call it what you will — for the ordinary Palestinian.

To illustrate this, let me describe some of the Israeli actions, practices and laws which the ordinary Palestinian faces.

Gaza
3. In Gaza, since the capture of Corporal Gilad Shalit on 25 June, the people have been subjected to continuous bombardment and military incursions in which over 100 civilians have been killed and many hundred wounded.

What Israel chooses to describe as “collateral damage” to the civilian population is in fact indiscriminate killing prohibited by international law.

Then there are regular sonic booms, which terrorize the population at night.

4. In June, Israel bombed and destroyed the only domestic power plant in Gaza. Consequently more than half the electricity supply has been cut off and Gazans will remain without adequate power for at least another year. This impacts not only on heating and cooking in the home but also on the supply of water, as water pumps are without power.
5. Hospitals are forced to use generators to power life-saving equipment because of power cuts.

Many essential drugs are unavailable.

Hospital staff cannot come to work as their salaries are unpaid and they cannot afford transport to their workplace.

Patients cannot travel abroad for better treatment because of the closure of the Rafah crossing.

6. Houses have been destroyed by tanks and bulldozers.

Schools have likewise been damaged.

Citrus trees and olive trees have been uprooted.

Agricultural land flattened by bulldozers.

7. Three quarters of the population is unable to feed itself and is dependent on food aid.

Food prices have inflated.

Fish is no longer available because of Israel’s naval blockade which forbids fishing.

Perishable food is lost because of the lack of electricity.

8. Both the Rafah crossing (for persons) and the Kami crossing (for goods) are continuously closed.

Not for security reasons.

But to bring pressure on the Palestinians, to release Corporal Shalit.

Gaza is a prison.

And Israel seems to have thrown away the key.

West Bank
9. In the West Bank, there is the Wall.

Which is no longer justified by Israel as a security measure.

Instead, it is openly acknowledged, that it serves a political purpose:—

The annexation of settlements and settlement land.

The humanitarian impact of the Wall is severe.

Palestinians living between the Green Line and the Wall, in the so-called closed zone {maps, copy}, cannot freely access schools, hospitals, and places of employment in the West Bank.

Those living along the Wall, in the West Bank, cannot access their farms, in the closed zone, without a permit.

And permits are frequently refused, for specious reasons, by Israeli bureaucrats, determined to humiliate Palestinian farmers.

In despair, many Palestinian farmers have abandoned their lands.

This has resulted in a new category of internally displaced persons.

In other countries, this process might be described as “ethnic cleansing.”

But political correctness forbids such language, where Israel is concerned.

10. Throughout the West Bank there are checkpoints, and roadblocks, now over 500 in number.

The West Bank is fragmented, into Bantustans, by checkpoints, and roadblocks.

Cities are cut off from each other.

Goods cannot be transported freely within the West Bank.

And individuals with permits to cross checkpoints are harassed, and humiliated, by IDF soldiers, who seem to regard all Palestinians as terrorists.

In most cases, checkpoints serve no security purpose.

Rather they are intended to make Palestinians continually aware of Israeli power.

11. House demolitions continue, for a variety of reasons:— Failure to obtain a permit to build. Police operations. Proximity of the Wall.

The Caterpillar® bulldozer has become a symbol of the occupation.

12. Different parts of the OPT experience different problems.
Jerusalem
13. In Jerusalem the Wall divides the Palestinian community.

Some are relegated to the West Bank while others retain their privileges as East Jerusalemites.

Crossing the Wall has become a nightmare.

Families have been separated.

South Hebron
14. South Hebron, home to settler violence, now has a new problem.

A low Wall is being built between Palestinian homes and grazing and agricultural lands — designed, as usual, to facilitate the travel of settlers.

Jordan Valley
15. The Jordan Valley is to be annexed in fact but not in name.

Non-Jordan Valley residents may no longer enter the area without permits.

Checkpoints isolate the Valley.

And settlements expand.

Poverty
16. A serious humanitarian crisis prevails in the West Bank, albeit not as extreme as in the case of Gaza.

Some 40 per cent are below the poverty line, dependent on food aid.

Unemployment stands at about 40 per cent while civil servants, numbering 23 per cent of the Palestinian population, are employed, but unpaid.

Blockade
17. In large measure the humanitarian crisis is the result of termination of the funding of the Palestinian Authority since Hamas was elected to office.

Israel is unlawfully withholding VAT duties and customs revenue amounting to 50-60 million dollars per month.

And the United States, Canada, and the European Union have discontinued funding of projects associated with the Palestinian Authority.

The EU’s Temporary International Mechanism, designed to provide relief to the health sector and to provide basic allowances for the poorest segment of the community, has provided some relief, but is inadequate to restore basic amenities to the bulk of the population.

Since 1994, the OPT has become heavily dependent on foreign funding.

The discontinuation of this funding has impacted severely on Palestinian society.

Repudiation of law
18. In effect the Palestinian people have been subjected to economic sanctions — the first time an occupied people has been so treated.

Israel violates international law, as expounded by both the Security Council and the International Court of Justice, and goes unpunished.

But the Palestinian people are punished for having democratically elected a regime unacceptable to Israel, the US, and the EU.

19. The onslaught against Gaza with its attendant loss of life and injury, the construction of the Wall, the system of checkpoints, the destruction of houses and lands, and the resulting imposed humanitarian crisis cannot be justified in law.

As security measures, they are grossly disproportionate and indiscriminate.

They constitute collective punishment, not of a government, but of a people — in clear violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Complicity
20. Israel is largely to blame for the situation I have described.

Its actions, practices, and laws deal harshly with Palestinians.

But other states and institutions are not blameless.

The United States, Canada, and the EU have contributed substantially to the humanitarian crisis, by withdrawing funding, not only from the Palestinian Authority but also from the Palestinian people.

21. Sadly, the United Nations, as a member of the Quartet, has condoned such action.

In effect, it has made itself a party to the imposition of economic sanctions against the Palestinian people.

All Member States of this Council are members of the United Nations and accordingly bear some responsibility for the present situation.

Inaction
22. Let me conclude by saying, as I have said over the past five years, that the actions of Israel, and now other States, against the people of Palestine challenge the commitment of the international community to human rights.

If the states and institutions comprising the international community cannot recognize what is happening in the OPT, and take some action, they must not be surprised, if the people of the planet disbelieve, that they are seriously committed to the promotion of human rights and the protection of an endangered people.”

 

•• Warren W. Tichenor (U.S.A.), HRC video {2:08, source, text} (Geneva, September 26 2006, 4:46-4:48pm CEST):

“ Warren W. Tichenor (U.S. UNHRC ambassador): We thank the Special Rapporteur for his work.

We must, however, disagree with his suggestion, that the Roadmap is “hopelessly out of date.”

The Roadmap calls for a two-state solution — Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security — and remains the only international peace plan endorsed by the parties themselves.

It imposes obligations on both Israel and the Palestinians.

Israel must dismantle settlement outposts erected since March 2001 and freeze settlement activity.

The Palestinians must renounce violence and terror, dismantle terrorist infrastructure, and prevent terror attacks. This includes the countless Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel following Israel’s Gaza withdrawal.

We have also joined with our Quartet partners, to call on the parties to fully implement their respective obligations under the Agreement on Movement and Access.

The Report also discusses the International Court of Justice’s recent advisory opinion.

In our view, this advisory opinion was not a useful contribution to parties’ efforts to resolve their differences.

Nevertheless, we have constantly called on Israel, in determining the route of the separation barrier, to take into account the humanitarian and economic impact on Palestinians.

As we continue to urge both parties to consider the broader implications of their actions on the ground, and to avoid actions that could prejudice final status issues, that should be decided through negotiations.

Mr. President, in a Council which seeks to reduce selectivity and double-standards, the United States strongly urges our colleagues to consider this issue in its proper context.

Not from a one-sided perspective, which may satisfy the political exigencies of the moment, but does nothing to improve the lives of Palestinians, or Israelis.”

 

Sword of Justice

Proper context

What is the “proper context” of armed robbery?

That the criminal gang, the violent criminal state enterprise, it’s leaders and promoters:—

They are helpless victims?

Addicts?

Addicted to greed?

Addicted to power?

Addicted to abuse?

(The infliction thereof).

Not responsible for their actions?

And we should “consider this issue”?

Take pity on them?

Feed their addiction?

With ever more, and more, powerless victims?

Victims we actively, continuously, disempower?

Groom?

As a ready meal?

The next fix?

A storehouse of fixes?

For the addicts?

To feed their hunger?

Route of the separation barrier

“We have constantly called on Israel, in determining the route of the separation barrier, to take into account the humanitarian and economic impact on Palestinians.”

Be gentle with their victims?

Temper their avarice?

With a little humanity?

And how do they do that?

Exactly?

My neighbor, he got robbed at the bus stop.

And the robber took pity on him, gave him back some of the money, enough for his bus fare, so he could get to work.

Something like that?

A little humanity?

The robber, he took “into account the humanitarian and economic impact” of his violent crime.

And he ameliorated it.

Softened the impact of it.

I guess Warren W. Tichenor would pat him on the back, the robber.

The Israelis, could they please Warren W. Tichenor?

Too?

Like this, maybe?:

When they send in their Caterpillar® bulldozers, made in the U.S.A., instead of the 200 meter wide swath they usually confiscate (their neighbor’s land) as a buffer, for their “separation barrier,” they could make it 190 meters instead? Leave an extra row of olive trees? Now and again?

Something like that?

A little humanity?

“Take into account the humanitarian and economic impact” of their violent crime?

Their armed robbery?

Here. This should placate Warren W. Tichenor, his token, feigned, sensibilities {293kb.pdf, source, 436kb.pdf, 547kb.pdf, barriers}:

“On 30 April 2006, the Israeli cabinet approved a revised route of the West Bank Barrier. ...

The revisions include:

The Emanual and Ari'el settlement groups are split into two “fingers.”

Together these “fingers” surround more than 25,000 Palestinians on three sides with one access route on the east side of the Barrier.

The Ari'el finger encircles three villages: Deir Ballut, Rafat and Az Zawiya.

The Alfe Menashe settlement is reduced in size. Sections of the completed Barrier will be dismantled and rebuilt placing three Palestinian villages and some of their adjacent lands on the east side of the Barrier.

The route is moved approximately one and a half kilometres further north from Road 465 and incorporates fewer olive groves and land from Rantis village.

The route is closer to Ofarim settlement, allowing 'Abud village residents to remain connected to their olive groves.

The new route removes Beit Iksa village and its surrounding lands from the Jerusalem side of the Barrier and places it within the Biddu/Beit Surik group of West Bank villages. This area is surrounded by the Barrier on three sides and Road 443 to the north.

Al Walaja village will be encircled by the Barrier. The route will incorporate most of all the village infrastructure, however, it will isolate the village from its farm land.

Al Jaba' will be in the Gush Etzion settlement group.

Several sections of the route that were planned to be on the Green Line have been moved north, inside the West Bank.

The “bubble” created by the Barrier around Eshkolot settlement is reduced; the quarry will remain on the West Bank side of the Barrier.”

Did they “take into account the humanitarian and economic impact” of their violent crime?

Or were they merely making life easier for themselves?

Placating a few noisy victims? To shut-up their annoying cries? A minor sacrifice by the criminal gang? For a little peace and quiet?

So.

Some winners and some losers, then.

At this godfather council.

On the next routine step.

In their ethnic cleansing.

Of the West Bank.

A violent war crime of occupation.

A violent crime against humanity.

Defending, improving, the spoils of their state-sponsored armed robbery.

At Wannsee? Was it? This meeting?

Or at Jerusalem, I suppose it was.

Withdrawal from a criminal enterprise

A violent, criminal, terrorist, state, which decided to change course, and terminate their conspiracy, their aiding and abetting, their facilitating, their incitement, of the violent crimes of another state:—

Such a state — the United States of America in this example — would not make a tepid call for vague humanity.

If the U.S. wishes to withdraw from the violent criminal enterprise it has carefully crafted, it must do so dramatically, and unequivocally.

Like this:

The United States condemns Israel.

Calls on all nations of the world to take immediate action against Israel, a blockade.

Until Israel withdraws its armed forces, and its colonizers, from all land outside its recognized borders.

Until Israel pays just compensation, for 40 years of abuse.

Until Israel tears down every last inch of that wall which sits outside Israel’s boundaries.

Exactly, as the United Nations International Court of Justice has decreed.

And humanity has decreed, since time out of mind.

You cannot lawfully build a wall.

On your neighbor’s land.

And.

You cannot lawfully use that wall,

To rob your neighbor, of his land.

Period.

Full stop.

And if you do it anyway, you’re committing a violent crime.

“Violent,” because I don’t suppose your neighbor acquiesced in this wall.

You menaced him.

With your violent, criminal, army.

An army willfully obeying orders.

Criminal on their face.

If you want to build a wall,

Build it on your own land.

Renounce your violent, criminal, way of life.

The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council:—

That is what he would say.

Were he not a mouthpiece.

For a violent, state-sponsored, criminal enterprise.

Is Warren W. Tichenor a mere mouthpiece?

Following orders?

Reading words imposed on him to read?

Or, is he taking a willing, active, part in this criminal enterprise.

Does he exercise free moral will, and chose, to advance the criminal aims of the enterprise.

By what he does.

And by what he does not do.

An inquiry for another day.

The prima facie violent crimes of Warren W. Tichenor.

And many, many, other U.S. government officials, contractors, agents, operators.

Their material support, for:—

Terrorism.

War crimes.

State-sponsored violent crime.

Will Warren W. Tichenor, and others, one day in the future, continue to provide a service to their country?

Convicted violent criminals?

Salutary examples to onlookers?

What violent criminal government officials can expect?

Down the road?

If, and when, and if ever, the U.S. government changes direction?

If the U.S. voters will it, at the ballot box.

A simple cross on the ballot paper.

A simple click, a button on a voting machine.

A simple, resolute, decision.

Criminal trials, court TV, popcorn, frog-marching.

Some action.

Some righteous action.

For a change

A welcome change.

Let the sword of justice be unsheathed.

Charles Judson Harwood Jr.
July 17, 2007

From Nashville:
Woodmont Grammar School (1948-1956)
Montgomery Bell Academy (1956-1960)
Vanderbilt University (1960-1964 BA)
Vanderbilt Law School (1964-1967 JD)
Tennessee Bar No. 005483 (August 12 1967)

 

John Dugard (UNHRC: U.N. Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied since 1967), Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967 (U.N. Doc. A/61/470, New York City, published Wednesday September 27 2006, 24 pages, U.N. General Assembly, 61st session) {103kb.pdf, also via this, this, OHCHR, this, this, and ODS}.

Debate, “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have Too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy?” (sponsor: London Review of Books, venue: Cooper Union: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Great Hall, Cooper Square, Third Avenue at 7th Street, New York City, September 28 2006), John J. Mearsheimer (University of Chicago, professor of political science, co-director, Program on International Security Policy), Tony Judt (NYU: New York University, professor of european studies, director Remarque Institute), John Rashid Khalidi (Columbia University, New York City, professor of Arab studies, director, Middle East Institute), Dennis Ross (WINEP), Martin S. Indyk (BI: Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., director, Saban Center for Middle East Policy), Shlomo Ben-Ami (Israel minister of public security, 1999-2000, foreign minister, 2000-2001), moderated by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Princeton University, Princeton New Jersey, professor of politics and international affairs, dean of WWS: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs), transcript {pf}, video: 1/11 {5:31, 20.9mb.flv}, 2/11 {11:53, 45.1mb.flv}, 3/11 {14:52, 57.4mb.flv}, 4/11 {14:53, 53.4mb.flv}, 5/11 {13:52, 53.5mb.flv}, 6/11 {8:31, 32.6mb.flv}, 7/11 {21:20, 80.9mb.flv}, 8/11 {11:46, 44.3mb.flv}, 9/11 Q&As 1/3 {8:36, 34.4mb.flv}, 10/11 Q&As 2/3 {7:24, 27.9mb.flv}, 11/11 Q&As 3/3 {15:31, 59.2mb.flv}, “Israel Lobby Press Conference,” video: 1/3 {12:33, 27.7mb.flv}, 2/3 {7:17, 16.9mb.flv}, 3/3 {15:35, 34.4mb.flv} (ScribeMedia). Note (July 3 3007): The above list reverses parts 3/11 and 4/11 (transposed on the player menu erroneously, based on the transcript) and corrects the duration of part 3 (erroneously listed as 7:00).

Norman Finkelstein (DePaul University, assistant professor of political science), remarks (speech, Q&As) (UVM: University of Vermont, Benedict Auditorium, 235 Marsh Life Science Building, Burlington Vermont, sponsors: Peace Vermont, Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, Will Miller Social Justice Lecture Series, Saturday September 30 2006, 7-10pm ET), audio {2:48:46, 77.26kb.mp3, source, search, search} (CCTV: Chittenden Community Television, Burlington Vermont), “Author Finkelstein to talk about Palestine-Israel conflict at UVM” (Vermont Guardian, September 19 2006), Ken Picard, “Scholar Who Calls Anti-Semitism the ‘Jewish Race Card’ to Speak at UVM{pf} (Seven Days, Burlington, September 27 2006).

 

 

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Ilan Pappé, interviewed by Khalil Bendib, introduced by Malihe Razazan (Pacifica, radio KPFA, Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Berkeley California, Wednesday October 4 2006, 7-8pm PT, and KFCF, Fresno California) (“59,000 watts ... our signal reaches one third of the state ... founded in 1949 ... the first community supported radio station in the USA”), audio {59:56, 38:05 at 3:40-41:45, 10.2mb.mp3, rss, podcasts, source, archive}, rebroadcast, audio {59:57 at 0:00-36:15, 10.2mb.mp3, source, archive} (Wednesday December 27 2006, 7-8pm PT). “On tonight’s program, Khalil Bendib speaks with Haifa University history professor Ilan Pappe about his stunning new book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, which demystifies the history of the Nakbah, the 1948 catastrophe that befell Palestinians, when over half of the population was forcibly expelled from its lands. In this new volume, slated to come out in October, Dr. Pappe meticulously documents how the ethnic cleaning of Palestine was anything but an inadvertent by-product of war; rather, it was methodically planned and executed, and then historically distorted by the Zionist movement for the past 58 years.”

 

Jimmy Carter, “Statement by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict” {pf} (Carter Center, Atlanta, Friday October 6 2006), reported, AP: Associated Press, “Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter calls for restoring aid to Palestinians{ditto, pf} (Haaretz, Tel Aviv, Saturday October 7 2006).

“ Jimmy Carter: The attempt to coerce Hamas leaders, by starving the Palestinian people, has failed, and it is time for the international community to alleviate their suffering and resort to diplomacy.”

Ilan Pappé (senior lecturer in political science, University of Haifa, chair, Emil Touma Institute for Palestinian Studies in Haifa), remarks, “Ilan Pappe: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” (UG: University of Glasgow, Gilmorehill Campus, Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue, Glasgow Scotland, Thursday October 12 2006, 7-9pm) (sponsors: PSC: Palestine Solidarity Campaign U.K., Glasgow University StW: Stop the War Coalition), Google video, “Ilan Pappe on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” {39:18, 120mb.mp4, search: google rss, ich}, YouTube video {39:49}: 1/4 {10:00, 15.4mb.flv, .flv, search youtube, youtube rss, others}, 2/4 {9:53, 17.7mb.flv, .flv}, 3/4 {9:58, 16.9mb.flv, .flv}, 4/4 {9:58, 16.4mb.flv, .flv}, video posted, “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” (The Fanonite, blog, April 15 2007) (by email, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad confirmed the date/venue of this video). Academic, activist, author (Amazon), this lecture is the first event of his U.K. book tour, on publication of Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld Publications, Oxford England, published October 12-19 2006, U.S. November 20) {U.K., U.S., Germany}.

Ilan Pappé, interviewed by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad (Spinwatch), Rena Bivens (GUMG: Glasgow University Media Group, Glasgow Scotland, Thursday October 12 2006), Google video, “An Interview with Professor Ilan Pappe” {35:59, 106mb.mp4, search: google rss, youtube, youtube rss, others}, video posted, “An Interview With Professor Ilan Pappe” (The Fanonite, blog, April 12 2007) (by email, Muhammad Idrees Ahmad confirmed the date/venue of this video).

Ilan Pappé (studio), conversation with George Galloway (UTV Radio, TalkSPORT, George Galloway, “The mother of all talk shows,” London, Sunday October 15 2006, 8-10pm GMT), GG audio segment (Pappé) {26:23, 12mb.mp3, archive, recent, search, search}, audio segment, “Ilan Pappe – The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (interview)” (broadcast audio recorded in Ireland, with 6:44 segments added at the beginning, pre-news teaser, theme tune (“Top Cat,” the GG remix), menu of topics that evening, intro to Ilan Pappé segment) {36:11, 6.2mb.mp3, source, source, search} (slow download) (A-Infos Radio Project, radio4all.net, Watkins Glen New York), YouTube audio segment, “George Galloway & Ilan Pappe” (ditto, ditto) {26:09}: 1/3 {9:41, 5.3mb.flv, .flv, search: youtube, youtube rss, google rss, others}, 2/3 {9:17, 5.0mb.flv, .flv}, 3/3 {7:11, 15.4mb.flv, .flv}, entire 2 hours (omitting news, adverts), “George Galloway talkSPORT radio show: 15th October 2006,” YouTube GG audio {1:45:10, 63.7mb.flv, .flv}.

Ilan Pappé, Efraim Karsh, interviewed by Julie Etchingham (Sky News, London, Wednesday October 18 2006), Sky video, “The Israel Debate{6:57, 18.2mb.flv}. “Is Israel guilty of ethnic cleansing? Dr Ilan Pappe, called by some as the most hated Jew in Israel, says yes. But fellow Israeli Professor Efraim Karsh says he is ‘fabricating history’?”.

Ilan Pappé, interviewed by Nadim Mahjoub (Resonance FM radio, Middle East Panorama, London, Friday October 27 2006, 2-3pm GMT), audio {28:08}: 1/2 {12:27, 5mb.mp3, rss, archive, archive, archive, archive, source, search, ich, copy, source}, 2/2 {15:41, 7.2mb.mp3, source}. “Ilan Pappe on Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006). Interviewed by Nadim Mahjoub on Resonance FM Radio, 27 October 2006.”

November 2006

 

 

By CJHjr: Transcribing TV/radio audio (paragraphed/punctuated for speech, the speaker’s rhythm, stress, pace), bold-face, text {in braces}, quotes from printed sources: some added paragraphing, commas.

This document is not copyrighted and may be freely copied.

CJHjr

Charles Judson Harwood Jr.

Posted Dec. 1 2006. Updated May 30 2009.

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