NP International Court of Justice

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
To: <ottosell at yahoo.de>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:29 PM
Subject: RE: NP International Court of Justice
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> But Israel, and Sharon specifically, will pay no attention to the ruling.
>

Haaretz pays attention:
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/449395.html

I respectfully disagree, Ghetta . It is not the whole of Israel that
supports the illegal fence on Palestinian soil.

Of course it really doesn't matter at all. Israel is in material breach of
so many UN-resolutions (according to the US-definition it is a land-grabbing
rogue state that is threatening its neighbours with weapons of mass
destruction, but this is not what I think) that one more doesn't count.

The original idea to divide both peoples even came out of the
Labour Party, but of course with a fence on Israeli ground.
It will be an interesting question next week if Simon Peres
joins the government.

Contrary to one half of the Counterpunch-duumvirat I don't think that Ariel
Sharon is a ruthless fascist. He's facing serious problems to get on the way
to implement the Road Map with his decision to give up "some" settlements in
the Gaza-strip. His disengagement plan is not even half of the story but
it's a first step.

I don't agree to the opinion that "a" fence is necessary, but it's for the
Israelis to decide this. Maybe it is. But what I agree to is the second part
of this comment:

"The painful truth is that at this point in time there does need to be a
physical barrier to separate Israel from the budding Palestinian nation.
That is not in doubt. What is in doubt is the route that the barrier takes.
If Israel is to reclaim her place in the eyes of the world, the bigger
gesture of dismantling the settlements - all of them - and pulling back to
the Green Line, making it the border, is the only honorable move.
Too many sons have been killed, too many mothers cry uncomforted - on both
sides. Both peoples love the land too much to allow their politicians to
saturate it with any more blood."
Haim Ainsworth,  Los Angeles,  USA
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ArticleNews.jhtml?itemNo=446346&contrassID=13&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0

Otto

> >From: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>
> >
> >The president of the International Court of Justice was Friday reading
the
> >ruling on the legality of the West Bank separation fence in The Hague.
> >http://www.icj-cij.org/videostream2.htm
> >
>