لقد خدعتَ مَنْ خدعت
مهما فعلتَ
فلن تستطيع أن تخدعَ الأرض
لقد خدعتَ مَنْ خدعت
Many Western Media outlets came out with the headlines:
ICJ rules that Israeli Policies in OPT are Illegal!
But that is an odd reading of the ruling - which summary the Chief Justice read for over an hour.
It is not just the policies that are illegal!
Any action Israel takes or fails to take in Occupied Palestinian Territory is illegal because its very presence in these territories is illegal. It is a "wrongful act".
Its occupation is illegal.
Annexation is illegal.
Apartheid and segregation are illegal.
Its Wall is illegal.
Detaining Palestinians (let alone torture, abuse and rape) is illegal.
Home demolitions are illegal.
Land confiscation is illegal.
Settlements are illegal.
"Outposts" are illegal.
Stealing water and other resources is illegal.
Putting Palestinians under siege is illegal.
Preventing Palestinians from exercising self-determination is illegal.
Preventing Palestinians from freely moving is illegal.
etc. etc. etc.
The ICJ has just reiterated the position of UNSC, UNGA and virtually every country on earth - that its entire presence in Occupied Palestinian Territory is and always has been (for 57 years) illegal and must rapidly end.
The only legal actions Israel can take are to:
Now, we come to downplaying the ruling as an "advisory" and non-binding!
The ruling is advisory because the UNGA asked the ICJ for advice!
It was not a case raised by one State against another.
The UNGA asked the ICJ certain questions and the ICJ answered these questions.
Is the ruling - or answers - binding?
The ICJ ruling reads itself (Pages 73-75)- and says that:
Ruling:
Also watch Dr. Ralph Wilde:
Sometimes, the desired change is just not possible or available as an option.
It's like missing a highway exit.
Or like being on the wrong train.
Your desired destination is just not on the menu.
What's the next stop?
Jordan Peterson tells Israeli Jews that the fate of the world depends on the decisions they make, then he starts crying, as usual. pic.twitter.com/RoIPwF5qn1
— Jayda Fransen (@JaydaBF) July 10, 2024
"You attract the world because of what you are capable of doing."
Interesting things to say.
"Capable of doing."
Does Peterson see a special value in a state that is still, in this day and age, capable of committing genocide?
He often criticizes liberals for what he perceives as weakness caused by “postmodern neo-Marxism” and argues that it undermines traditional values and hierarchies that he believes are essential for a stable society to effectively respond to evolutionary challenges successfully.
So, is he actually promoting genocide to "get rid of the weak and eradicate victimhood"?
Isn't this an extension of the eugenics?
But even to his point, Palestinians, by their very mere survival despite the collusion and persistent efforts to ethnically cleanse them, deny their existence, change the names of their country, towns and villages, etc., despite all of these efforts by the world's most powerful, ruthless and resource-rich empires throughout the past 100 years, Palestinians prove that they are anything but weak.
In this war alone, Israel has carpet-bombed the Palestinians with intensity that had never before been seen - even in World War II ...
Using more ammunition than what was used in some of the biggest battles of history, those where the warfront stretched over continents ...
Israel used more bombs to destroy a 365 sq. km area, receiving endless supplies and hundreds of billions in funding from governments and private donations, while facing an enemy that has been under siege for 20 years, or 76 years - depending how you look at things.
Yet, Israel has failed to achieve any of its stated goals.
But Peterson thinks, hopes or at least preaches - that a Shining City on a Hill will ultimately manage to "finish the job" and that "the fate of the world depends on the people of Israel" ... "this tiny people in no man's land" . He actually said "no man's land"!
For a while I thought he was just using reason. But then he said "You show the world what the "holy city" should look like" and teared up. He choked on his tears. This is not coming from philosophy, logical reasoning or Darwinian social evolution. This is coming from something much more emotionally poweful. It is faith. And when faith and genocide intersect we must suspect messianic beliefs.
Now I am starting to realize how these messianic beliefs actually mess up your reasoning and kill your humanity. One becomes just an extension to the virus or meme which is trying to propagate Armageddon.
ذكريات مشوشة - العم وسلمي
في حديقة الأسماك
تقابلنا لآخر مرة
...
كيف هانت الأحلام على من أقسم
على الحب.. على الإخلاص؟
(لم مالت الأيام مع أجرم
في حق الشعب وعمر الناس؟)
...
أعمار ضاعت
لترثيها
أشرار باعت
أمانيها
...
وردة مجففة
دمعة مكفكفة
وحلق رخيص
تلخصت الذكريات الجميلة فى صندوق أحذية صغير
وتاهت الملامح العزيزة رغم مشوار العمر القصير
...
ترى أين أنت الآن يا سلمي؟
وهل يتضرج وجهك خجلاً إذا تقابلنا صدفة؟
Translated from Arabic:
Confused memories - Uncle and Salma
In the aquarium
We met for the last time
...
How did dreams become so trivial to those who swore on eternal love?
(Why did destiny lean with the villains
who deceived the people
and stole countless young lives?)
…
Lives lost
Only to receive fake eulogies
From the very villains who buried them with their dreams
…
A dried rose. A stifled tear. And a cheap earring.
A thousand beautiful memories reduced to solitary confinement in a tiny shoebox.
And those sweet and dear features, how they cruelly dissipate, escaping a traumatized memory,
despite a short, hardly lived journey?
...
…
I wonder where you are now, Salma,
And after all these years,
Will you blush if we were to meet again by chance?
Source:
Go to the website if you need to download the PDF file.
While most people argue between the merits of a Two-State vs. One-State solutions, one man, and his followers believe in a continuous State-of-War and that War is Peace.
**Partially used a 2012 photo of Netanyahu at the UN, © Getty Images