Contents tagged with Palestine
Filed in: War on Terror | by David French | 1:04 PM Feb. 1, 2013
Outlawing the Law of War
Earlier this week, the New York Times published an op-ed by George Bisharat, a professor at UC Hastings College of Law, calling for the Palestinians to bring complaints against Israel in the International Criminal Court based on Israeli military operations against Palestinian terrorists. The Palestinian Authority has tried this tactic before, but the ICC’s chief prosecutor declined the case because Palestine is not a state. (Full disclosure: My colleagues at the ACLJ filed briefs and made ... Continue Reading
Filed in: Israel | by Matthew Clark | 9:41 AM Dec. 13, 2012
2012 Victories: Stopping Malicious Prosecutions of Israel at ICC
This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at a few of the hundreds of victories by the ACLJ in 2012. What Palestinian terrorists could not achieve through actual violence, rocket attacks, bombings, etc., they attempted to achieve through lawfare (warfare through the misuse of law). After Israel defended itself from terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians in 2009, the Palestinian Authority attempted to bring false war crimes charges against Israel at the International Crimi... Continue Reading
Filed in: United Nations | by Jordan Sekulow | 3:32 PM Dec. 7, 2012
The Overreach of Palestinian ‘Statehood’ at the United Nations
When the United Nations General Assembly voted to grant “non-member observer state” status to the “Palestinian entity,” it not only violated international law and decades of peace agreements between Israelis and Palestinians, it brought renewed instability to the Middle East. In all, 138 U.N. member states voted for the change in status for the “Palestinian entity,” 41 abstained and five were not present. Only nine states, Canada, Czech Republic, Israel, Mars... Continue Reading
Filed in: Israel | by Jordan Sekulow | 5:22 PM Nov. 28, 2012
The Legal Impossibility of Palestinian Statehood at the U.N.
On Thursday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will again seek statehood at the United Nations. While this form of “statehood” will not confer U.N. member state status to the “Palestinian entity,” it could fundamentally reshape the Middle East, undermine international law, inhibit peace, and violate Israel’s right to exist. The resolution that the PA submitted to the U.N. General Assembly includes numerous demands that far exceed a simple (but equally illegal) grant o... Continue Reading
Filed in: Israel | by Matthew Clark | 12:28 PM Nov. 19, 2012
Israeli Civilians the Target of Palestinian Terrorists
One thing that is often lost as hundreds upon hundreds of terrorist rockets reign down on Israel is the real life effect they are having. They are not just rockets. They have targets, and those targets are almost always Israeli civilians. What does it look like to constantly live in fear of your terrorist neighbor firing deadly rockets at you and your family? One Israeli family told their horrific story to YNetNews.com. Their daughter was injured by a terrorist rocket attack as they were riding... Continue Reading
Filed in: Israel | by Jordan Sekulow | 1:27 PM Nov. 16, 2012
The ‘Unbearable Lightness’ of Voting - for a Palestinian State
States intending to vote in the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) in favor of granting non-member “state” observer status to “Palestine” are showing a stunning disregard for international law and the troubling ramifications of such a move – which would extend far beyond the Israeli-Palestinian arena. “States” are the primary building blocks of the international order. Accordingly, most of international law is concerned with the conduct of states and the rela... Continue Reading
Filed in: Israel | by Jay Sekulow | 10:18 AM Apr. 4, 2012
The ICC Gets It Right . . . Finally
Common sense and the rule of law have finally prevailed. For the past three years, the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been pondering whether the Palestinian Authority (PA) was capable of acceding to ICC jurisdiction. The process began in January 2009, immediately following the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip to halt the incessant rocket attacks on southern Israel, an operation for which Israel has been pilloried by the international community. In an attempt to ens... Continue Reading
