By: Kawther Salam
The
Jewish State of Israel considers itself above the laws and has imposed
a blockade on any criticism against its violations of the International
laws, of its barbaric Apartheid regime and of its many crimes against
humanity, by the UN human rights organizations and members of the
International community.
The representatives of this so-called "state" lose control each time
any criticism against them, as small and innocuous as it may be, arises
here or there. Each time they are criticized according to international
laws and agreements to which Israel has acceded, and which in part were
even redacted with help of representatives of Israel, these saints of
the "unique and aloof" morality of their state give themselves the
right to punish, to lambast the international organizations and their
representatives, instead of accepting punishment or even mild criticism
from these organizations which constitute the forum for the
representatives of a great part of humanity.
The representatives of the Israeli occupation regime reacted arrogantly
after the Human Rights Council of the UN in Geneva unanimously released
a list including 99 recommendations at the end of a two-day review of
Israel's record on human rights last Tuesday 9 December 2008. The
council urged Israel to take 99 step to end its violations of human
rights, including to lifting the blockade on the Gaza Strip, freeing
Arab detainees, and to allowing international observers to enter
Palestine.
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann
The president of the UN General Assembly
Miguel d'Escoto,
a Catholic priest and former Nicaraguan Foreign Minister, received
death threats last Monday 15 December 2008. The spokesman of Mr.
d'Escoto confirmed that "very serious threats" against the life of the
UN General Assembly president were published on the Internet and that
"competent authorities took the case for investigation".
The media of Israel "reported" that Miguel d'Escoto had supposedly
prevented Israels ambassador to the United Nations to speak during a
plenary session of the Assembly. Mr. d'Escoto described the Israeli
allegation as "offensive and slanderous", and his spokesman said that
the accusation hurled by the representatives of Israel at the United
Nations were "an aggressive and unconvincing lie which can also be
described as an irresponsible fabrication".
Earlier, the State of Israel, perpetrator of innumerable war crimes
and crimes against humanity, took revenge against the Special Rapporteur
of the UN for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,
Richard Falk. Mr. Falk was denied entry to the occupied Palestinian
territories through Israel, and when he came nonetheless, he was
arrested on past Sunday 14 December 2008 at Ben Gurion Airport, and
deported to Geneva on Monday 15 December 2008. The result of the arrest
and deportation of Mr. Falk came as a result of his criticism of
Israel, its flagrant crimes against humanity and the many violations of
the international law in Gaza and the West Bank.
Richard A. Falk
Last week, on 9 December 2008, professor
Richard Falk
condemned the collective punishment of the Palestinians in Gaza and
described it as a clear violation of article 33 of the Fourth Geneva
Convention. He said that the Israeli policies against the Palestinians
were tantamount to a "crime against humanity", and the Israeli blockade
of Gaza against 1.5 million Palestinians is a war crime and a crime
against humanity.
Professor Falk called the International Criminal Court in The Hague
to investigate the situation in Gaza, and to determine whether the
Israeli civilian leaders and military commanders responsible for the
Gaza blockade should be indicted and prosecuted for violations of
international criminal law. Mr. Falk broke the omertá
of the international community which until now covers all Israeli
crimes against Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, and
because of this he was unjustly arrested, humiliated and deported by
Israel. His intervention is all the more remarkable and courageous because Mr. Falk is himself a Jew.
What Israeli leaders have failed to understand is that each murder,
each mistreatment of any Palestinians, each humiliation at a
checkpoint, each incursion of their death squads, each of the 13.000
Palestinians in their gulag, each time one of their ministers calls for
even more destitution and crimes against Palestinians, each new illegal
settler in my homeland … is at the same time a nail in the coffin of
the project Israel.
Israel is now like a big ship with a broken engine, advancing only
with whatever impulse it has left. What will happen when the ship
stops? And, will it stop first, or will it crash into something ugly
ahead? Whatever lays ahead, the power to decide its fate is not in the
hands of Israel anymore, despite all its military might an all its
bought and paid for "friends".