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发帖数: 29846 | 1 The Palestinians Are About To Get What They Asked For By Joining The ICC
As the old saying goes, be careful what you ask for-you may get it. Last
week over the objections of the United States, Israel and Jordan, the
Palestinian Authority applied for membership in the International Criminal
Court, and today it is beginning to face the repercussions. An independent
Israeli organization filed war crimes complaints in the ICC against senior
Palestinian officials, the Israeli Government may weigh in with charges of
its own, and there is a congressional movement to hold back US aid to the PA.
Today the Israel Law Center filed war crimes complaints against three senior
Palestinian Authority Officials
1. Jibril Rajoub is Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Central Committee and
is second to Abbas within Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a terrorist
faction within the PLO.
Our complaint demands the investigation and arrest of Rajoub, a leader
of Fatah during the Gaza War, at which time the terrorist group fired
numerous rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. Under international law,
targeting civilians with deadly weapons is a war crime.
Fatah has boasted on its FACEBOOK page and in other social media that it
was responsible for launching rockets at Israel this summer. As a senior
Fatah leader, Rajoub should be held responsible for the actions of his
subordinates who act in accordance with the terrorist faction’s policies
and goals. The terrorist rocket attacks from Gaza left numerous Israelis
dead and injured.
2. Majid Faraj is head of Palestinian General Intelligence
3. Rami Hamdallah was previously Minister of the Interior, and now
serves as Prime Minister
Our complaint also alleges that Faraj and Hamdallah knowingly employ
torture against ordinary Palestinians. Faraj and Hamdallah both are senior
officials responsible for agencies within the Palestinian security apparatus
and are liable for the widespread civil rights abuses and killings which
were perpetrated by those agencies. The complaint requests that the Chief
Prosecutor of the ICC investigate Faraj and Hamdallah for torture and murder
and issue warrants for their arrest.
All three PLO officials are Jordanian citizens and that Jordan is a
state member of the ICC. As such, the Chief Prosecutor can immediately
launch an investigation.
Israel is looking to file war crimes suits against Palestinian leaders:
Legal proceedings at courts in the United States and elsewhere are being
weighed against Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, his Palestinian
Authority and other senior officials, the source close to the government
told AFP.
He said that the basis of the complaints would be that Abbas's
partnership in a Palestinian consensus government with Hamas makes him
complicit in the militant Islamist group's rocket attacks from Gaza against
civilians inside Israel.
"In recent days officials in Israel stressed that those who should be
wary of legal proceedings are the heads of the PA who cooperate within the
unity government with Hamas, a declared terrorist organisation which like
the Islamic State (jihadist group) carries out war crimes -- it fires at
civilians from within population centres."
Israeli sources have told YNet News that Israel has frozen the transfer of
half a billion shekels (about $125 million) from tax funds collected on
behalf of the PA by Israel and distributed every month, in response to the
Palestinians' request.
Then there is the matter of US aid to the Palestinian Authority. Up until
now Israel has always fought against congressional attempts to cut off aid
to the Palestinian Authority believing that a working "functioning"
Palestinian Authority better than chaos. After the Palestinian entry into
the ICC, Israel is requesting the US enforce a law which cuts of aid to the
PA because of its "diplomatic terrorism" against the Jewish State.
Congress passed a funding bill (which was signed by President Obama) just
before they adorned last month that contains language stipulating that the
State Department would pull all economic support to the PA if “the
Palestinians initiate an International Criminal Court judicially authorized
investigation, or actively support such an investigation, that subjects
Israeli nationals to an investigation for alleged crimes against
Palestinians.”
Israel has changed its mind because she realizes the PA believes it will
continue getting aid, without keeping its commitments, one of which was not
to join the ICC. Furthermore Israel realizes if the Palestinians continue to
get its US cash there is no way to dissuade it from its strategy of
perpetual conflict either with guns or diplomatic war against Israel.
In the end, it will be interesting to see if despite the law whether
President Obama cuts of aid to the PA, as we have found out this President
believes he can rule by executive fiat. |
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