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...which calls for Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. This preposterous proposal comes at a time when it would do the most harm to Israel. At the moment, Israel is attempting to defend its citizens and its borders from terrorist attacks, as is the right of any sovereign state. This proposal for divestment once again makes Israel the victim of a double standard; Israel is not the only nation that takes strong and forceful action in times of war, yet it is consistently singled out for criticism...
...torn from the same page. They both have chosen to impede the court’s proceedings by attacking its legitimacy. And their defense may be working. Bagosora and Milosovic have found the Achilles’ heel by playing right into Western insecurities about international authority over sovereign nations and their leaders. Take away their names, adjust a few statistics, and one could be looking at a pro-Western general and politician...
...staff mistakenly calls the International Criminal Court a multinational institution. In fact, the court is a supranational institution. Rather than being an agreement between sovereign nation states, the court claims ultimate jurisdiction over independent nation states. The ICC claims the right to address issues of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. All of these, particularly aggression—which the court has not yet defined—are subject to politically motivated interpretation. Consider one of the many vague definitions of crimes against humanity, “acts...causing great suffering...to mental or physical health...
...sends his people out to die with fertilizer strapped to their bellies and dreams of glory dancing in their heads? How can peace come with a leader who seems to believe in peace only tactically, as a temporary respite from the struggle to achieve not only a sovereign Palestine, but the end of a sovereign Israel...
...some success in her goal of expanding the organization's membership. Her 13-year-old daughter is starting an Amnesty group at school. Q&A TIME: What sympathy do you have for a nation's right to limit or exclude foreigners from its borders? KHAN: Every nation has the sovereign right to control its borders, but nations also have the obligation to fulfill international responsibilities that they have undertaken...