The Case against US Exporting Arms to Israel

US Admin Awareness of Israel Committing War Crimes and Plausible Genocide

On 12th Dec, 2023, President Biden publicly mentioned that Israel was using indiscriminate bombing. Indiscriminate bombing is a war crime. 26th Jan 2024, the ICJ ruled that there is a prima facie genocide case against Israel.

Selling weapons to a country which is using indiscriminate bombing against civilians violates US Laws. The AECA requires that nation that receives a shipment of arms from the United States must certify that the weapons are used for internal security and legitimate self-defense, and that their use does not lead to an escalation of conflict.

As it happens, Israel is an occupying force in Gaza and as a result, does not have the right of self defense in a territory which it occupies by force in violation of UNSC resolutions.

And since President Biden on 12th Dec, 2023 has demonstrated knowledge that Israel is conducting indiscriminate bombing of civilians, with a staggering death toll, the President is knowingly bypassing congress to ship arms to a country which is committing war crimes and plausible genocide.

Nuclear Weapons, NPT Treaty and AECA

Israeli cabinet member, Amichai Eliyahu, Minister of Heritage, said that nuking Gaza is an option. So, now the US formally knows that Israel has nuclear weapons outside of the NPT (Nuclear Weapon Non-Proliferation Treaty). Yet Biden continues to ship arms to Israel again in violation of AECA and other US laws.

No Strategic Victory is Possible

The US is now committed to a war which cannot be won. It is impossible to end a resistance movement. Every bomb that falls, creates potential future recruit to an existing or a future resistance movement.

The Worst is Yet to Come

With 2 million Palestinians on the brink of starvation, and with the collapse of healthcare system, coupled with defunding UNRWA, it is possible that at one moment of time, one or more disasters could strike and there will be no capacity or infrastructure to deal with it.

Unconditional US Support, Impunity and Israeli Religious Extremism will have Dire Consequences

As explained in an earlier article, the US, UK, Germany and the EU are leading Israel to a path of national suicide. The disturbing scenes coming from the field, polls and even reported by Israeli newspaper warn of an internal implosion.

Summary

In summary, the US administration is marching into extremely precarious legal grounds. It is now exposed to being sued domestically and internationally for aiding and abetting in indiscriminate bombing of civilians and plausible genocide and it is violating its own domestic laws and regulations. Moreover, the US is supporting a war which cannot be won, at a staggering cost of human lives and destruction. US image and interests worldwide and in the region will suffer severe damage. Escalation could set a chain reaction which may be hard to reverse or control.

Links:

https://apnews.com/article/biden-israel-hamas-oct-7-44c4229d4c1270d9cfa484b664a22071.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-says-nuking-gaza-an-option-pm-suspends-him-from-cabinet-meetings/

Netanyahu: You Don't Like the 2-State Solution, Welcome to the One-State de facto Reality and the Inevitable End to the Apartheid Regime!

 

🚨🇮🇱#BREAKING: Israeli news channel @i24NEWS_EN, has deleted the viral video of Benjamin Netanyahu saying:

"In the future, the state of Israel has to control the entire area from the river of the sea."

Israeli interesting... pic.twitter.com/ySamRILrJS

— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) January 19, 2024

Where is the congress to condemn "from the river to the sea"!

Honestly, no surprise there.

The spoiler came years ago.

Israel has created a de factor one state from the river to the sea decades ago.

Netanyahu, and most of his predecessors, have done everything possible to sabotage the peace process with the Palestinians.

They feel that their settler colonialist project will only succeed by completing the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine from Palestinians, using variety of tactics, including killing and genocidal massacres to scare people and drive them to "voluntary" transfer (= wink wink - ethnic cleansing).

But guess what.

They don't like the 2-State solution?

Israel will end up with the One-State solution, where all Palestinians and Israelis will have the same equal rights, no supremacist race or ethno-state.

Because Apartheid will fail and its walls will fall. Both physically and ideologically. The world has seen this too many times already.

Educide: Occupation is Trying to Amputate Gaza's Brain and Kill its Soul

جيش الاحتلال يقوم بتفجير جامعة فلسطين في غزة بواسطة 315 لغم pic.twitter.com/aemM8Ezh5C

— Hisham Abu Shaqrah | هشام أبو شقرة (@HShaqrah) January 17, 2024

Demonstrating its malicious intent to make Gaza unlivable, by destroying universities, hospitals, bakeries, mills, residential buildings, and killing professors, artists, journalists, doctors, etc., Israel is trying to amputate Gaza's brain and kill its soul. The world must respond.

How the US is Leading Israel towards Disaster through Blind Unconditional Support

Mr. Zakaria,

You're missing the point.

"Friends" of Israel are leading her to a path of national suicide. By providing impunity, and by denying the rights of Palestinians for 76 years, Israelis must come to the conclusion that they are right. But since they are NOT, as certified by hundreds of UN resolutions - since they continue to occupy, oppress, dispossess, ethnically cleanse and murder Palestinians, while stealing their land and water, humiliating them, caging them in an apartheid regime, denying them citizenship or rights, erasing their history and pretending that they don't exist and had never existed.

Now, if you were a Palestinian under these deplorable conditions, you would resist and revolt. Come what may. Israel has only one response, more violence, killing, demolition and dispossession. In the words of Soffer, Israeli demographer and geostrategist:

"We have to kill and kill and kill, all day, everyday." https://www.jpost.com/features/i-didnt-suggest-we-kill-palestinians

In the "Mowing the lawn" practice, every round of pogroms brings more death and destruction than the last, until there will come a point, where the whole world will rise, unable to tolerate the slaughterhouse any more.

Inside Israel, people are led to believe that Palestinians are terrorists who love violence and hate Jews more than they love their children. No mention of Nakba or Palestinian land and lives stolen. No apology or attempts for reconciliation. So, many Israelis cheer and ask for more and more killing of Palestinians and now demand genocide. The progressives demand ethnic cleansing as used starting 1948 and thereafter.

This spiral has one end. It's like being on a runaway train going downhill. The end is not goin to be pretty for anyone including friends and even bystanders.

What can be done now?

Try to stop the runaway train if you dare to and reverse course.

Arms embargo. No-fly zone. Sanctions. Full accountability. Arbitrated (not negotiated) settlement imposed. Let's just hope that train can be stopped.

In response to:

https://x.com/FareedZakaria/status/1746902924851048686?s=20

How many children?

 

The Lawyering at ICJ

Lawyering is lawyering.

However, my hope is this (and I'm no expert nor a lawyer):

For indication of provisional measures, the bar is far lower than judging on the merits. It's only needed to establish that there's a plausible risk of genocide if the current pattern of actions continues, even if they are not intended to achieve this particular end.

To effectively reduce the likelihood of genocidal irreparable damage, a cessation of hostilities must immediately be put into effect to allow essentials of life:

* Food and water "distribution" and not just delivery

* Electricity

* Shelter in the winter

* Access to medications and medical supplies and equipment

* Healthcare services

* First respondent services

* Relief efforts and access to support from international organizations

* Fact-finding missions for the purpose of how to prevent or reduce the risks of high rate of fatalities - and I'm not even mentioning evidence for the case.

So, in my humble judgment, it is practically extremely unlikely for the court to find that provisional measures are not indicated while maintaining ANY SHRED of credibility.

Since I'm not an expert nor a lawyer, the court probably realizes that many members of the public, watching in disbelief for the last 100 days how the events have horrifically unfolded, will probably reach the same conclusions and hence, it becomes extremely difficult for the court to disavow logic.

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Moreover, the preemptive judgment from the US, Britain and Germany Administrations, may in fact work against their intent, if their intent was indeed malicious. The court should be offended, that pre-judgment comes with such certainty while the court hasn't even heard, let alone deliberated on, the case.

Saying that this prejudgment came after reading the 84-page submission of South Africa is ludicrous, because South Africa introduced new evidence in its statements and Israel also introduced defense which was not known beforehand.

So, in summary, the arrogant manner in which "politicians", some are already in disrepute, dismissed the case as meritless, sounded like dismissing the court itself, rather than the case; and judging for it, not even on its behalf, because the court didn't seek assistance or consultation, as far as the public knows anyway.

If I were one of those 15 or 17 judges, I will take extreme offence in this alone. But hey, I'm not.

In response to:

https://x.com/gcramer30/status/1746269643767951676?s=20

A Song for Shady and the Children of Gaza