Israel Right to Self-Defense
Updated 2024-07-25
2024-04-08 ‘Self-Defense’ Is No Justification for Genocide in Gaza The Palestinian people—not just Hamas—have been Israel’s intended targets all along.
As the world learned of the Khartoum government’s unfolding genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, Jewish organizations around the globe raised their voices in protest. Led by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and American Jewish World Service (AJWS), dozens of religious groups and human rights activists formed an alliance called the Save Darfur Coalition.
Throughout their years-long attempt to compel the international community to take substantive action, Jewish leaders routinely and eloquently described their motivation. Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the opening speaker at a 2006 rally for Darfur, in Washington, D.C, told the crowd, “As a Jew, I’m here because when we Today, the USHMM, AJWS, and nearly every other high-profile Jewish organization refuse to call what Israel is doing in Gaza by its rightful name. Their stance will be recorded as one of history’s most damning examples of both hypocrisy and whitewashing.
With the release of an advance copy of her March 25 2024 report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese confirmed what any clear-eyed person has known for months. Israel is committing genocide in Palestine.needed people to help us, nobody came. Therefore, we’re here.” https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/self-defense-genocide-gaza
2023-11-25 Justifying the Unjustifiable in Palestine Ralph is joined by author and human rights activist Miko Peled. They discuss the excuses that Israel uses to defend the atrocities they commit against Palestinians, and the truth behind all the propaganda.
This is pure revenge. What we’re seeing is vengeance of a military force and a state that have been humiliated. And just like any bully, any gangster who’s been humiliated, they take it out on the weakest people they can find, people who cannot defend themselves… It’s revenge for the sake of revenge. It’s savagery for the sake of savagery. It’s brutality in its purest form. There’s no other reason than the brutality itself.
Palestinians deserve nothing less than the lifting of the siege, release of all prisoners, and the dismantling of the apartheid state. Nothing less than that should be demanded. And all we’re seeing people talk about is ceasefires, as though a ceasefire is some great accomplishment. Ceasefire does not provide the possibility of a future where this is not repeated. What needs to be demanded now is a political solution that will ensure the safety and security of Palestinians—and that is never part of the conversation. A ceasefire does not secure the lives or the security of Palestinians, because we know Israel will violate it a week later.
It’s not going to collapse because Israelis agree. It’s not going to collapse because Israelis wake up one morning in a good mood. Israel is going to have to be forced on its knees. Just like in South Africa, whites in South Africa were on their knees. We’re talking about severe sanctions. We’re talking about closing down all diplomatic missions. We’re talking about not allowing Israelis to participate in sporting events, cultural events, any events, academic arenas. They need to be shunned. Israeli society and the apartheid state that they created need to be brought on their knees. https://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/justifying-the-unjustifiable-in-palestine
2023-11-12 A UN expert on why Israel cannot invoke the right to self-defense Will there ever be peace in the Middle East? And if so, how can it be accomplished? This is one of the great questions of our time. Multiple, deadly wars have been fought to try and achieve lasting harmony between people who have been divided for generations. It is at the heart of the latest atrocities that the people in Gaza and Israel have been suffering through, for more than a month. But the problem, says Dr Francesca Albanese, The United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian Territories, is that everyone, from politicians to soldiers, has often been fighting for the wrong thing. Today, she joins Samantha to discuss what is needed to stop the seemingly unending suffering in the Palestinian territories, and Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9fSeU-wrDg
2012-11-20 Israel-Palestine – what is the U.S. national interest? Back to Israel’s playbook, chapter two can be called the instant, mandatory resolutions by the puppet show in Congress and the automatic one-sided mantra by the White House. “Israel has a right to defend itself,” said President Obama, from the occupied, besieged, defenseless Palestinians, whose lands, water, homes, businesses and freedom of movement are being taken relentlessly by the raiding Israeli government that is not content with possessing 78 percent of traditional Palestine.
More than 1500 Israeli reserve combat officers and soldiers signed a declaration refusing, in their words, “to fight beyond the 1967 borders in order to dominate, expel, starve and humiliate an entire people.” The founder of Israel, David ben Gurion, candidly declared it “their (Palestine’s) land and we took it.”
So Palestinians do not have a right to try to defend themselves against their cruel, powerful occupiers. Israel is violating several UN resolutions along with international law, according to many experts including Richard Falk, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories. But the U.S. gives Israel its unwavering UN veto cover. https://nader.org/2012/11/20/israel-palestine-what-is-the-u-s-national-interest//
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