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To: StormRider who wrote (1321)	4/1/2002 8:42:38 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 6945

counterpunch.org First: We must immediately move for the de facto suspension of Israel throughout the entirety of the United Nations system, including the General Assembly and all U.N. subsidiary organs and bodies. We must do to Israel what the U.N. General Assembly has done to the genocidal rump Yugoslavia and to the criminal apartheid regime in South Africa. Here the legal basis for the de facto suspension of Israel at the U.N. is quite simple: As a condition for its admission to the United Nations Organization, Israel formally agreed, inter alia, to accept General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) (1947) (on partition and Jerusalem trusteeship) and General Assembly Resolution 194 (III) (1948) (Palestinian right of return). Nevertheless, the government of Israel has expressly repudiated both Resolution 181 (II) and Resolution 194 (III). Therefore, Israel has violated the conditions for its admission to U.N. membership and thus must be suspended on a de facto basis from any participation throughout the entire United Nations system. Second: Any further negotiations with Israel must be conducted on the basis of Resolution 181(II) and the borders it specifies; Resolution 194 (III); subsequent General Assembly resolutions and Security Council resolutions; the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949; the 1907 Hague Regulations; and other relevant principles of public international law. Third: We must abandon the fiction and the fraud that the United State government is an "honest broker" in the Middle East. The United States government has never been an "honest broker" since from well before the formal outset of the Middle East peace negotiations in 1991. Rather, the United States has invariably sided with Israel against the Palestinians, as well as against the other Arab States. We need to establish some type of international framework to sponsor these negotiations where the Palestinian negotiators will not be subjected to the continual bullying, threats, intimidation, lies, bribery, and outright deceptions perpetrated by the United States working at the behest of Israel. Fourth: We must move to have the U.N. General Assembly adopt comprehensive economic, diplomatic, and travel sanctions against Israel according to the terms of the Uniting for Peace Resolution (1950). Pursuant thereto, the General Assemblys Emergency Special Session on Palestine is now in recess just waiting to be recalled. Fifth: The Provisional Government of the State of Palestine must sue Israel before the International Court of Justice in The Hague for inflicting acts of genocide against the Palestinian People in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Sixth: We must pressure the Member States of the U.N. General Assembly to found an International Criminal Tribunal for Palestine (ICTP) in order to prosecute Israeli war criminals, both military and civilian, including and especially Israeli political leaders. The U.N. General Assembly can set up this ICTP by a majority vote pursuant to its powers to establish "subsidiary organs" under U.N. Charter article 22. This International Criminal Tribunal for Palestine should be organized by the U.N. General Assembly along the same lines as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) that has already been established by the U.N. Security Council. Seventh: Concerned citizens and governments all over the world must organize a comprehensive campaign of economic disinvestment and divestment from Israel along the same lines of what they did to the former criminal apartheid regime in South Africa. This original worldwide disinvestment/divestment campaign played a critical role in dismantling the criminal apartheid regime in South Africa. For much the same reasons, a worldwide disinvestment/divestment campaign against Israel will play a critical role in dismantling its criminal apartheid regime against the Palestinian People living in occupied Palestine as well as in Israel itself.

To: StormRider who wrote (1321)	4/1/2002 8:50:57 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

<< how would you like it if someone you don't even know committed a crime and in retaliation the police with little or no warning came and destroyed your home ... >> Why do you oversymplify just to make the Palestinians look like the innocent victims, and the Israelis the thugs? In how many of the "homes", that were destroyed, did terrorist thugs live? How many allow their homes to be used for terrorist activities? How long do the Israelis tolerate their people being attacked before they retaliated by bulldozing homes? Why do you protest more about a home being bulldozed than you protest the bombing of a teenage girl's dance, where the bombs used were designed to murder and maim as many as possible? I hate to turn on the news. I don't want to hear about any more people being blown up by terrorists in Israel. This has been going on for decades, and it is worse now than ever. Five Arab wars against Israel! If the Arabs ever won a war against Israel, there would be mass murder of Jews. Israel offered the Palestinians their own state in 2000. They offered them hundreds of millions in aid, trade, their capitol in East Jerusalem, most of the West Bank and Gaza, and peace. Instead the Palestinians decided to murder as many Jews as they could. Don't cry on my shoulder about their damn buildings.