BREAKING : LEBANON REPRESENTATIVE ABDEL SATTAR ISSA MADE THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENT TO THE ICJ ABOUT ISRAELI CRIMES

Sulaiman Ahmed

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BREAKING: LEBANON REPRESENTATIVE ABDEL SATTAR ISSA MADE THE FOLLOWING ARGUMENT TO THE ICJ ABOUT ISRAELI CRIMES

Lebanon urges the ICJ “to help in giving justice to the Palestinian people so we can have peace in the Middle East”.

It was wrong of some countries to ask the ICJ not to hand out its advisory opinion to the UN General Assembly “with a perverse argument” that it would get in the way of a bilateral negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.

“The law is the framework which prevents the political slippage be it public or private level.”

“Were Israel to seize its occupation of the Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and accept the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, all the other violations would disappear.”

“Since 1967, Israel has been committing a crime of aggression, illegally occupying territories before annexing them.”

“Some may question the application of the norm prohibiting the use of force [to acquire territory] on the basis that it is an inter-state norm. That would imply that the OPT is not part of a state … Lebanon and more than 140 members of the UN have recognised the State of Palestine and East Jerusalem as its capital.”

“Israel must dismantle its settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories and withdraw therefrom … It must also seize all violations of Palestinian peoples’ right to self-determination … It must also issue reparations.”