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Israel is a rogue state

 

 

 

Israel is a rogue state

which is violating over 30 UN Security Council resolutions

by David Morrison

Irish Political Review
March 2008

http://www.david-morrison.org.uk/
david.morrison1@ntlworld.com

Israel is a rogue state
which is violating over 30 UN Security Council resolutions

Israel is a rogue state.  It is violating over 30 UN Security Council resolutions, dating back to 1968, resolutions that require action by Israel and Israel alone [1]. 

That very important fact is entirely absent from reporting on Palestine

the British and Irish media.  If any other state in this world were guilty of such persistent refusal to obey the will of the “international community”, it would be subject to continuous threats of economic and/or military sanctions by the US and the EU – and we would never hear the end of it from the British and Irish media.

The Security Council resolutions being violated by Israel are listed in the Appendix below.  For a correspondence with the Israeli Embassy in London on these violations see [2].

Four of the resolutions being violated by Israel are very significant: if Israel chose to take the action demanded in them, the political landscape in Palestine would be transformed.  These are:

(1) Resolution 252
This resolution, passed on 21 May 1968, demands that Israel reverse its annexation of East Jerusalem.  It states:

[The Security Council]
2. Considers that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and cannot change that status;
3. Urgently calls upon Israel to rescind all such measures already taken and to desist forthwith from taking any further


New Palestinian Crisis

 


A new crisis is expected to take place early next year, by the end of the presidency term of the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, on January 2008. The "Israeli" newspaper 'Yedioth Ahronoth' revealed the intention of President Abbas to remain in power until January 2010, notifying that "Abu Mazen has held during the past two months, a series of consultations with the heads of Arab states and won their full support to continue his term".

 

On the other hand, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, said Hamas would not recognize any legitimacy

the Palestinian President after the ninth of next January: the period his presidency comes to an end, unless the presidential election took place in the presence of national consensus. Thus, the said movement uncovered its latest cards in the severe political battle with the authority of Ramallah. Hamas considers the end of the P.A. President's term a purely legal issue related to the Palestinian Basic Law, and that the law clearly states: "The President's term ends after four years". Therefore, it is supposed that Abbas calls for presidential elections to take place on its legal defined time. If this does not happen, the law states "the Legislative Council's President shall be the Interim President for sixty-days".

 

Hamas movement's position is based on Article (36) of the Basic Law amended in 2005, which states that the term of the Palestinian National Authority presidency is four years. Whereas, Abbas and his team's position is based on article (1/2) of the General Elections Law N° (9) in 2005, which stated that the president and members of the Legislative Council are to be elected at the same time.

 

This exchange of statements was accompanied by legal and constitutional advisory opinions by


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