Ramzy Baroud in Al Jazeera: How a missing ‘the’ enabled Israeli occupation
When the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 2334 in December 2016, Israeli leaders seethed. Their fury was duly understood to stem from what they perceived as an unprecedented betrayal by the United States.
But that was not it at all, since Resolution 2334 – which asserted that Israeli settlements have no legal validity and constitute a flagrant violation of human rights – was partly predicated on, and clarified and added to, previous UNSC Resolution 242 of 1967.
This means that 50 years of incessant Israeli attempts to absolve itself from any commitment to international law have failed, and terribly so.
Resolution 242, which stipulated that the Israeli army has to withdraw from territories occupied in the 1967 war, has been cited in various agreements between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), and later, the Palestinian Authority (PA), but only as if to say that these agreements were legally binding. The citations did not accept the full legal context, obligations and retributions of international law as stipulated in the resolution.
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Resolution 242 enshrined a whole new order in the Middle East, one in which the US and Israel reigned supreme. –… https://t.co/CsJeA30Mm4
— Ramzy Baroud (@RamzyBaroud) November 22, 2017
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