Starting in 1948 Israel obliterated about 500 Palestinian villages from off the face of the earth, literally reducing them to rubble now scattered across the Palestinian countryside in order to prevent their ethnically cleansed inhabitants from ever again returning to their homes because they no longer exist.
And the list of Israeli genocidal massacres of Palestinian communities is quite extensive.
To name just a few of Israel’s most notorious acts of antiPalestinian genocide: Deir Yassin, Tantura, Sabra and Shatilla, Jenin, Nablus, and repeatedly and continuously Gaza.
As we meet here today, (2014) Israel is deliberately inflicting on the 1.75 million Palestinians in Gaza, conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part in gross and flagrant violation of Genocide Convention Article II(c).
In order to prevent yet another and predictable wholesale slaughter and acts of genocide by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and elsewhere, we most respectfully request this Tribunal to condemn Israel guilty as charged for genocide as well as for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Article I of the Genocide Convention requires: “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.”
The Genocide Convention has been incorporated into the Charter of Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal by means of Article 10.
Pursuant thereto, it is respectfully submitted that this Tribunal must “undertake to prevent and to punish” Israel for its genocide against the Palestinians by finding Israel guilty as charged.
Should this Tribunal find Israel guilty as charged for genocide, it will then trigger the solemn obligation found in Article I of the Genocide Convention for every state in the world community to likewise “undertake to prevent and to punish” Israel for its ongoing genocide against the Palestinians.
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes
Tribunal must issue this shot heard around the entire world on behalf of the Palestinians by finding Israel
guilty of genocide against them.
This is exactly what the International Court of Justice did for Bosnia and the Bosnians in 1993 when it ruled against Yugoslavia on genocide.
The World Court deliberately shook up the entire world and propelled humanity to act to save Bosnia and the Bosnians from annihilation and extermination by Yugoslavia.
Bosnia and the Bosnians are still alive today thanks in significant part to that 1993 World Court ruling on genocide.
I am respectfully asking the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal to do the same today for Palestine and
the Palestinians.
Shake up the entire world! Get humanity to act to save Palestine and the Palestinians from further annihilation and genocide by Israel!
Make sure that Palestine and the Palestinians are still alive twenty years from now!
Convict Israel for genocide!
Professor Francis Boyle, University of Chicago 2014
Here’s a synopsis and short list of legal rights belonging to a civilian population under occupation such as Israel illegally occupying the civilian population and land of the Palestinian people:
1) A civilian population has a legal right to exist;
2) A civilian population has a legal right to form and maintain armed resistance groups;
3) A civilian population suffering an illegal occupation by an OCCUPYING POWER has a legal right to use ANY MEANS NECESSARY TO EVICT THE ILLEGAL OCCUPYING POWER;
4) Said OCCUPYING POWER has no legal right to use any military force whatsoever against a civilian population under illegal occupation and military blockade by said OCCUPYING POWER.
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2339254