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Seems like the ICC is going to be busy arresting Zion war criminals all around the world:-
U.S.: Monitor and Restrict Use of U.S. Weapons by Israel to Avoid Complicity in War Crimes
(Washington D.C., October 14, 2023) – U.S. law requires the United States to monitor and ensure the weapons and munitions it provides to Israel and ensure they are not used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Democracy for the Arab World Now reminded Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of...dawnmena.org
U.S.: Monitor and Restrict Use of U.S. Weapons by Israel to Avoid Complicity in War Crimes
October 15, 2023
in DAWN, Feature, Press Release Israel-Palestine, Press Releases
Failure to conduct end-use monitoring could expose U.S. officials to International Criminal Court liability for aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes
(Washington D.C., October 15, 2023) – U.S. law requires the United States to monitor and ensure the weapons and munitions it provides to Israel and ensure they are not used to commit war crimes in Gaza, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) reminded Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III in a letter sent Friday, October 13, 2023. Failure to comply with end-use monitoring requirements not only breaches U.S. laws but also could expose U.S. officials to prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for aiding and abetting war crimes, DAWN warned.
In a separate letter to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan on Friday, DAWN asked the Prosecutor urgently to issue a public statement reminding the parties to the conflict of the ongoing investigation there and send an investigative team to the Gaza region of Palestine to document and investigate potential crimes under the Rome Statute.
"If U.S. officials don't care about Palestinian civilians facing atrocities using U.S. weapons, perhaps they will care a bit more about their own individual criminal liability for aiding Israel in carrying out these atrocities," said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN. "The American people never signed up to help Israel commit war crimes against defenseless civilians with taxpayer funded bombs and artillery."
The Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) mandate that the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense establish end-use monitoring protocols for arms transfers. These measures aim to ensure that the weapons are used responsibly and in compliance with international law. Despite these legal requirements, the U.S. has historically been lax in enforcing these laws regarding arms provided to Israel. Members of Congress have recently called for strengthened end-use monitoring and financial tracking of U.S. aid to Israel. Over $3.3 billion dollars in weapons transfers and weapons financing to Israel remain opaque, with limited information and monitoring.
In addition, the Biden administration's new Civilian Harm Incident Response Guidance (CHIRG) program requires U.S. officials to investigate "civilian harm by partner governments suspected of using U.S. weapons and recommend actions that could include suspension of arms sales." DAWN urged Secretary Blinken to investigate the civilian harms of Israel's use of U.S. arms and munitions in Gaza under the CHIRG program and to confirm that such monitoring is already taking place.
U.S. officials could face individual criminal liability for aiding and abetting Israel with weapons used in the commission of crimes against humanity and war crimes under the Rome Statute, in light of the pending ICC investigation in Palestine, which covers all crimes committed since June 13, 2014. Article 25(3)(b) of the Rome Statute clearly states that "providing the means for [the] commission" of a crime within the jurisdiction of the court, which Gaza is, shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment in the ICC. Although the U.S. is not a party to the Rome Statute or a state party of the court, U.S. nationals would nevertheless be subject to the jurisdiction of the court where the court has jurisdiction and is conducting an investigation, such as Gaza. Evidence that the U.S. has monitored the use of its weapons by Israel, verified they have not been used in criminal attacks on Gaza, and suspended new arms transfers in the face of evidence of misuse of its weapons could serve as a defense to criminal charges against U.S. officials by the ICC.
Although the ICC formally announced its investigation into crimes in Palestine in March 2021, it has never sent an official investigatory mission to Palestine or Israel. DAWN urged the ICC Prosecutor Khan to urgently remind the parties to the conflict of his ongoing investigation into Palestine to deter the commission of crimes and to send an investigative team there to document any crimes.
"The ICC Prosecutor sent a team of investigators to Ukraine to document and investigate war crimes there as soon as the war started, but over a week into this war the Prosecutor has yet to utter even a word regarding the ICC's active investigation in Palestine," said Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, Director of Research for Israel-Palestine at DAWN. "If the ICC fails to robustly and prominently investigate and prosecute the crimes now underway in Gaza, he will destroy whatever credibility the court has left as an independent body committed to equal protection for all victims of international war crimes."
Since the most recent escalation of the conflict in Israel-Palestine, the evidence is clear that multiple parties to the conflict have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity. This includes deliberate attacks on civilians in southern Israel by Palestinian armed groups and the taking of civilians as hostages now in Gaza. It also includes Israel's total blockade on food, fuel, electricity, and water, collectively punishing over two million Palestinian civilians in Gaza; daily indiscriminate bombardment of civilians; deliberate targeting of civilians, including journalists, in Gaza and Lebanon; targeting of hospitals and mosques; and failure to distinguish between military and civilian targets in its attacks. Israeli bombardment has already caused the displacement of over 400,000 Palestinians, killed over 2,215 civilians, including 724 children and 458 women, and injured 8,714.
BE'ERI, ISRAEL -- OCTOBER 14, 2023: SOLDIERS TAKE COVER AS THEY LAUNCH MORTAR ROUNDS TOWARDS GAZA IN SOUTHERN PART OF ISRAEL, SATURDAY, OCT. 14, 2023. ISRAEL WAS CAUGHT BY SURPRISE AFTER HAMAS LAUNCHED AN UNPRECEDENTED ASSAULT ON COMMUNITIES NEAR GAZA WHICH LED TO THE DEADLIEST BOUT OF VIOLENCE TO HIT ISRAEL IN 50 YEARS THAT HAS TAKEN MORE THAN A THOUSAND LIVES ON BOTH SIDES. NOW, ISRAELÕS MILITARY PREPARES FOR A WIDE SCALE INCURSION INTO GAZA IN THE COUNTRYÕS SOUTH.
SOURCE: MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES
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It's all part of their propaganda and brainwashing campaign. During their propaganda blitzkrieg when the Jews attacked Gaza all the US News media were showing were female models with Hollywood make over as Israeli soldiers.
Legal experts from the Center for
Constitutional Rights have argued that the
US government's unconditional support for Israel's actions in Gaza may implicate it under international law in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. They contend that Israel's mass bombing, denial of essential resources (mainly food, water, and electricity), and indiscriminate targeting of civilians could constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. The United Nations has also condemned the bombings of schools and hospitals in Gaza as crimes against humanity and warned of an escalation to genocide.
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Do we need to be officially appointed first to raise our voices against Genocide?
Your mentality is sick.
Azerbaijan took control of Nagorno Karabach with help of colonial Iran and Russia and changed the demography there, which is needed to be commended the same way as Israel was illegally formed. And if Muslims don't do it, then they are showing Munafiqah and double standards.
Similarly, the genocide by the ancestors of Muslims is as bad as any other genocide. We don't need any official appointment to condemn it. But it is again OPEN Munafiqah of Muslims where they don't condemn Turkish genocide of millions of Armenians in 1915 and taking the whole of historical Western Armenia, and making it a part of Turkey.
What type of stupidity is it that Armenians survived under Muslims and thus it became Halal for them to do their Genocide later and this genocide should not be condemned?
If we use your sick logic, then Palestinians are also living with Equal rights in Israel. Should then Israel also get the license to do their genocide now?
Moreover, there was no rebellion by Armenians in 1915. I already posted the proof. But you came up with a one-sided claim by a Turkish website that Armenians did a rebellion in 1875 (or something like that).
What stupidity is it that you kill people in 1915 for any alleged rebellion in 1875?
Moreover, in that genocide, Turkey killed over a million Armenians, which consisted of women and children and civilians who never did any rebellion.
What stupidity is it that you kill over million innocent women and children in 1915 for any alleged rebellion in 1875?
Moreover, I asked you that Hamas also rebelled now against Israel. Does it now gives a right to Israel to do the Genocide of Palestinians and kill them all?
That is why I repeatedly telling you to look at colonial role of your Muslim ancestors and genocides that were done by them, and not to show double standards and Munafiqah.
But unfortunately, religious fanatics like you are devoid of humanity and morals.
No, it is not a non-sequitur, but a proof of your double standards and munafiqah. I stay on my claim when I wrote:
Are Muslims able to see their double standards when they blame Israelis for invading Palestine but don't blame Azeris for the same thing?
It does not become non-sequitur only while you are unable to defend your double standards.
Again double standards.
British was a colonial power and it did not have the right to split India even on an administrative basis against the wish of the majority of people of India.
If the split was necessary, then the native population should have done it themselves.
And a similar argument can be made about Israel that the British made the split on an administrative basis. Why then you don't recognise the existence of Israel? Why did your Khomeini then want to destroy the whole Israel?
Moreover, your lame excuse of "administrative split" is also a lie. India was not split due to any administrative reasons, but Muslims demanded a new country purely based on religion.
It is so unfortunate that religious people have made LYING and Deceptions Halal for them. They feel absolutely no shame in using Taqiyyah for their deceptions.
What does atheism have to do with Zionism?
And when did Europe was destroyed for the spread of Atheism?
And if anyone kills for the spread of atheism, then we condemn and curse such a person. But do you have morals to condemn your Muslim ancestors for killing and enslaving non-Muslims for 14 long centuries?
The recent reality can never change. It is SECULARISM, which brought absolute peace in Western Europe for the last 70 years and no war took place there. Secularism is the reason that they became one union without borders.
And only Secularism can bring peace to the Palestine/Israel conflict. Till the time Hamas and Hizbullah and Israeli fanatics have the power to interfere, there will be no peace in Palestine.
Wrong. Faiths have nothing to do with the modern paradigm in Europe.
Firstly, the states became religion free. They altogether rejected religious laws on the state level. They went for a non-Religious Constitution and Laws, which were made only by Human Intellect (and were not based on any alleged Divine Intellect).
Only after that, we saw the rise of true Secularism in Europe.
The rule was simple, religion has no role in politics and laws, but it is only limited to personal lives of people.
This situation cannot be compared with the situation in Muslim countries, where up to 95% of Muslims want to impose Sharia laws on the state level and want to control even the private lives of humans through religion.
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President Erdogan: “In the eyes of the international community the state of Iseael is nothing but a babykiller country”
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It was just a matter of time before the Hindu bitch went,,
They were so powerful but how much damage can they inflict on Israel back then? What's the biggest death toll Israel had since it was formed? It was this year. So all these bases and allies did nothing for them. It brought them isolated pockets in west bank and a siege in Gaza. They kidnapped some hostages and Israeli especial forces freed them. Thats amateur stuff. Since 1948 they thought and fought like amateurs. Always picking the wrong allies. Always having leaders who were Israeli spies. Always infiltrated by spy agencies.
They are now a very lethal and dangerous organisation. They occupied Israeli towns? this is a feat that even Egypt couldn't do.
Of course they are not strong enough yet to get a state, but they are the strongest they have ever been when it comes to being able to inflict damage and that is what counts.
The sister group in Lebanon, it can probably cause 30,000 deaths in Israel. That why Lebanon isn't bombed to the ground despite the casualties Israel is taking. In 2006 Lebanon was bombed very very badly, over the kidnap of 2 soldiers. Now the Lebanese group is taking out tanks and soldiers and posting it on YouTube. And there is very limited retaliation. Why? because of 200,000 rockers. because of ATGM. because they have no spies embedded in the organisation. It's very hard to infiltrate a Shia organisation filled with people with family and tribal ties.
The Lebanese organisation can Destroy Lebanese the army and is probably the strongest force in the Arab world. They will easily defeat the Saudi army. Easily.
Should tigers start eating cabbage too? People in that area have been fighting sectarian wars for over 3,000 years. Old Testament is full of genocidal wars. Read about Tel Megiddo.
Tel Megiddo - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
What does Secularism have to do with the Old Testament? Why are you putting the burden of the crimes of the Old Testament on the shoulders of Secularism?
Only Secularism can bring peace to the Palestine-Israel conflict. But till the time religious Hamas, Hizbullah and the Jewish religious fanatics have the power to interfere, there will be no peace in that region.
Then I repeat my earlier post for you. Let us see what answer you have for it.
These are double standards by Muslims. They are unable to see what their own Muslim ancestors did with non-Muslims.
Turkey killed millions in the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and made the whole area of Western Armenia a part of Turkey. Again Muslims are unable to see their double standards where they blame only Jews for being invaders but utter no words against the same things that their Muslim brothers did on a much bigger level.
Azerbaijan also invaded the Armenian land of Nagorno-Karabakh with the help of colonial Iran and then colonial Russia.
Armenian people were living in Nagorno Karabakh for thousands of years till the Azery Government started to settle Azeries there to change the demographics.
Are Muslims able to see their double standards when they blame Israelis for invading Palestine but don't blame Azeris for the same thing?
We have no love affair with the wrongdoings of Israel and Zionists. We would have opposed a Zionist state in 1948. But today Israel is a reality, just like it is a reality that the historic Western Armenia is a part of Turkey, or just like Pakistan is a reality and no more a part of India, even if the British conspired against the majority of the population of India of that time and created Pakistan against their wish.
Hamas are religious fanatics. They will never accept Israel. Even if any of their leaders try to accept Israel, he will be killed by Hamas.
Israel is also suffering from the same curse of religion. The Jewish religious fanatics will also never give up the idea of God-Gifted and God-Promised land, and they will try their best to expel all Palestinians.
Only Secularism can bring peace to the region.
Hopefully, the Secular Forces get stronger on both sides, and get rid both of them from the curse of religious fanaticism.
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Can someone translate the Arabic
Did he really say this ?
Unbelievable how can Arabs be so shameless
Did he really say this ?
Unbelievable how can Arabs be so shameless
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Bro - she regards her family as Zionists - she’s a coconut Zionist
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