[Ariadna: The article below appeared on yahoo.news –you can’t get more MSM than that. What’s going on?!?! Are they messing with our minds?]
A special MintPress ANALYSIS
By Richard Silverstein
SEATTLE — How do you hold a nation legally responsible for acts of terrorism perpetrated either by its citizens or the state itself? One solution is the International Criminal Court, which exists for such matters.
However, the ICC largely avoids taking on cases outside of Africa. Critics accuse the ICC of operating with a political agenda in terms of cases it accepts or rejects — sometimes based on financial support — and ignoring obvious war crimes. In the Mavi Marmara case linked above, the chief prosecutor rejected the case in 2014, only to be overruled by an appeals panel several months ago. The prosecutor is now appealing the appeal.
This sort of bureaucratic inertia has hobbled it from its inception.
Even if the ICC does eventually accept jurisdiction, given such resistance it appears unlikely there will be a serious attempt by the ICC to hold Israel accountable for these acts.
So far, Palestinian Authority attempts to get the court to accept jurisdiction over Israeli violations of international law have had little success. What other options or legal models may be available?
The aftermath of the May 2010 attack on the Mavi Marmara, part of the first Freedom Flotilla, by the IDF commando force, Shayetet 13, offers an important precedent. The Turkish government sought justice for this massacre in which Israeli soldiers killed 10 Turks, including one Turkish-American. Since Turkey broke off diplomatic relations over the incident, resumption of ties have also become part of the negotiations to resolve the dispute. Last February, the Times of Israel reported that part of the agreement under discussion involves Israel paying $20-million to the families of the victims.
Press reports this week speak of an imminent deal in which Israel and Turkey would resolve their differences, resume diplomatic relations and Israel would end the siege against Gaza. It’s not known what the final outcome will be regarding damages, but certainly Israel will be forced to acknowledge responsibility for the attack and pay compensation to the victims.
This offers an interesting model for pursuing future litigation to hold Israel financially responsible for acts of terror perpetrated by its citizens and its military against Palestinian civilians and citizens of other nations. Over the years, Israeli forces have severely injured or killed nationals of a number of countries in Palestine and elsewhere.
Israel is being dismantled; the Israel of old that is. Rothschild funded it and was basically THE driving force in it’s creation. Same exact story for the United States & Saudi Arabia. All 3 are in the deconstruction phase.
It is the global agenda which also involves China, the IMF, Iran, and Europe..and other ‘lesser’ countries to varying extents.
People will be seeing more of these ‘shocking’ and bewildering events taking place in Israel and relative to Israel. Saudi Arabia will begin to experience ‘terror’ strikes more likely than not being led by ISIS.
There is a lot of Web chatter as well coming from those that claim that Zionism is seperate from judaica, and from these, they are telling ‘jews’ to get of Israel before all hell breaks loose in Israel because of what the Rothschild Zionists have planned.
Russia has been targeted. Saudi Arabia has been targeted. Israel and the United States as well. Iran of course is still trying to be squeezed. China was hit financially. as was Venezuela. Brazil is being rocked. Argentina is down for the count. Canada is facing skid row. Syria is still being targeted.
Events coming out of Israel that once would have been thought of, are going to appear more frequently, but, they will be met with resistance.
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Come on, they’ll fudge, promise, lie, obfuscate, philibuster, every possible tactic available to dodge responsibility..
It is just NOT on the cards for israel or its components to be publicly linked to terrorist acts and anyone using legal means to try and expose them will simply come up against a brick wall representing the power of the zionist entity…..if they aren’t ” disappeared” first.
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Israel is being dismantled; the Israel of old that is. Rothschild funded it and was basically THE driving force in it’s creation. Same exact story for the United States & Saudi Arabia. All 3 are in the deconstruction phase.
It is the global agenda which also involves China, the IMF, Iran, and Europe..and other ‘lesser’ countries to varying extents.
People will be seeing more of these ‘shocking’ and bewildering events taking place in Israel and relative to Israel. Saudi Arabia will begin to experience ‘terror’ strikes more likely than not being led by ISIS.
There is a lot of Web chatter as well coming from those that claim that Zionism is seperate from judaica, and from these, they are telling ‘jews’ to get of Israel before all hell breaks loose in Israel because of what the Rothschild Zionists have planned.
Russia has been targeted. Saudi Arabia has been targeted. Israel and the United States as well. Iran of course is still trying to be squeezed. China was hit financially. as was Venezuela. Brazil is being rocked. Argentina is down for the count. Canada is facing skid row. Syria is still being targeted.
Events coming out of Israel that once would have been thought of, are going to appear more frequently, but, they will be met with resistance.
.
Come on, they’ll fudge, promise, lie, obfuscate, philibuster, every possible tactic available to dodge responsibility..
It is just NOT on the cards for israel or its components to be publicly linked to terrorist acts and anyone using legal means to try and expose them will simply come up against a brick wall representing the power of the zionist entity…..if they aren’t ” disappeared” first.
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