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Why We Should Care About Palestinian Unilateralism at the ICC
If the American media and the U.S. government truly want to combat unbridled unilateralism that undermines peace, then highlighting the Palestinians’ legal warfare against Israel is the first place to start.
Since assuming office in January, members of the new U.S. administration have repeatedly stressed opposition to unilateral measures by Israelis and Palestinians. Yet, they have failed to act against the Palestinians’ efforts at the International Criminal Court (ICC) their most significant unilateral move in decades.
In late January, acting U.S. envoy to the United Nations, Richard Mills, stated that the Biden administration “would urge Israel’s government and the Palestinian Authority to avoid unilateral steps that make a two-state solution more difficult.” On February 8, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasized U.S. opposition to unilateral moves during a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer. Three da
The killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint between Jerusalem and Bethlehem last year was an “extrajudicial execution”, according to a London-based group specialising in the investigation of violations of human rights.
Ahmed Erekat was shot at the Container checkpoint in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank in June 2020 and left to bleed to death for more than an hour after Israeli soldiers stopped a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance from treating him.
In a report published on Tuesday, Forensic Architecture said that the 27-year-old posed no threat to the Israeli soldiers, or to any property, and noted that he was not given any first aid treatment following the shooting, even when he showed signs of life.
Weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth at BBC headquarters. Wed Feb 24, 2021 It took exactly a month: from January 16 to February 16. On that date in mid-February, the BCC did the unthinkable: it admitted it had been wrong. It was on Shaun Ley’s BBC show on January 16, when he accused the journalist Jonathan Sacerdoti of being wrong in insisting that Israel had no duty – according to the Oslo Accords to inoculate the Palestinians with the coronavirus vaccine. What should have been checked on right away – it would have taken no more than a few minutes to do a simple internet search for the necessary information – took the BBC several weeks. Why? one wonders. The satisfying story, of chagrin and embarrassment at the BBC, which had been proven unfair to Israel yet again (Example #11,863), is here: “BBC Admits Claim That Israel Is Responsible for Vaccinating Palestinians Is Wrong, Algemeiner, February 17, 2021: