Taking Western leaders to court for Gaza War | Tayab Ali | The Big Picture S3E10
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2023
- Can Western leaders be held to account for their role in the Gaza war?
This week on The Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with one lawyer determined to do just that, and who has already put many of them on public notice.
Tayab Ali is Solicitor Advocate, a partner at the London Law firm Bindmans LLP and the director of the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP).
For years, Ali fought to bring Israeli politicians before British courts on charges of war crimes. These included former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
In 2009, he successfully applied for UK court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni following the brutal Operation Cast Lead, which killed more than 1000 Palestinians in Gaza.
In 2011 the British government controversially issued diplomatic protection for Livni to allow her to visit London on a speaking tour.
Following the Hamas attack on October 7 which led to Israel’s war in Gaza, killing more than 18,000 people including 7000 children, Ali and his team published a public letter to British politicians, informing them of their intent to prosecute any lawmakers “aiding and abetting war crimes in Gaza”.
They’re also supporting groups mounting a case at the High Court against the UK government over its arms exports to Israel.
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What an inspirational human being. I'm grateful we have people like Mr Ali.
Agree!
Until politicians are held accountable for supporting war crimes they will not stop these atrocities.
Agree
Absolutely!
Biden and Blinken both need prison time for war crimes!!
These three men alone Netanyahu Biden and Sunach have enabled the Murder of over a Thousand Children in Gaza in three Months.
We thank you for your courage and humanity and principles for looking out justice for the Palestinian people
@@user-it5fr4ol5f Hasbara
@@user-it5fr4ol5f zionist war criminals we will bring them to justice
1:05 Intent? No water, food, medical, fuel, electricity?
No ESCAPE.
Pretty clear intent.
This is very encouraging to hear - that those in responsible positions actually CAN be prosecuted for complicity in war crimes. I am so relieved to hear this work is going on. Thank you.
Can I just suggest also that personalities producers and editors across all media outlets have been just as complicit in some cases, and I believe it would be of value to our democracy and following to international law and human rights for these bad actors to also be put on notice, and if necessary prosecuted.
These abuses of power have got to stop.
Are there any plans to do this?
Please keep going I am praying for you to hold everyone responsible 🙏
@@hussanafuland why not run a bulleitin board info drop from a guy like this , working diplomacy in the outer wideworld in " democracy" lands😂!, for the DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY WORK EFFORTS & SCHEDULED projected hopeful gains, and Oct. 7 speaking event prepared and scheduled- unfortunately, COLLIDED with on Oct 7)
Hamas had it's own engagement to tend to GUERILLA TERROR WARFARE could they have changed their mind or put off to reconsider if he could have been including a regular
correspondence ,maybe even wider outer joint hosting bulletein board drops or diplomatic guides to share media ,combat the misinfo, bias of western
Hegelion's subverted dialectical warfares-if our lousy govt so corruptly fails diplomacy and inclusive human rights
then so.ething the professionals and real American hearts might also offer along with this guy....
so otherwise without a wider transparency of the ongoing documented diplomatic intelllectuals corresponding and neutralizing dialogues in broadening Palestinian Face,
normalization as a NATION of equally civillized, included,informed, and given more voice of their people and elected Hamas officials could it work better? Vs.
(* striking back at its overbearing, over biased hypocrites sponsors-and tax extortion nations CORRUPT HEADS OF GLOBALISTS MONOPOLIES,
WEAPONIZED AND ALLIED LEAGUES , natural gas and oil in Gaza, how long have the UN known that? It wasnt for the Christian love of Jews and
Christians in middle east, or 1945 Germany shtetl Jews, afterall- I had to wonder- since NO ONE WOULD ACCEPT JEWISH REFUGEES THEN! WHY SO DELIGHTED ON THIS ISRAEL STATEHOOD ALLIANCE?? IN THE MIDDLE EAST
and Mediterranean Sea, quite a strategic fixed location there, I guess! And the WESTERN APPROVED MOWDOWN ON GAZA @ OVER 900+ PER DAY mega savage
bombblastifications! THATS 6,500 PER WEEK! shellshocked shaking traumatized toddlers and so many infants with cracked bloody skulls! I shuddered daily still viewing clips and shorts posted from in Gaza.
(preconstruction demolitionists -- could it seem to themselves? Tanks running over children yesterday I heard?? OMG!😢) greedy? Ooh!
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@@hussanafulincluding Hamas they can never be prosecuted its a war they can try all their luck.
@@hussanafulJehovah will hold them responsible.
The REAL people responsible. Prayers to Allah will do as much as he did for the Palestinians.
A war crimes tribunal should be established asap
Who's addressing 600 years of enslavement of AFRIKAN people?
With which countries?? You want to judge the West by which standards??? Muslim standards?? I mean the West will also react towards all the atrocities Islamic terrorists do all the time in the Middle East . It will never happen! Where in the Middle East do you find democracies??? Real politicians which can stand their ground??? I mean, I see dictators, rebels, chaos, kings & many more. But no democracy. The question is by which standards??
“Impunity is a curse” “Because Impunity removes accountability” - - Tayab Ali
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Justice for the Palestinian people !
Neither human rights nor democracy should be applied selectively.
#justiceforpalestine
Save Gaza ❣️
Neither have a place in muslim countries.
@@Furry_Dog-ry9op "FACT: there never was a country called Palestine,"
The facts:
The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern Tel Aviv-Yafo and Gaza.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica -> Palestine
@@Furry_Dog-ry9op " there is not one today,"
Reality:
Palestine (Arabic: فلسطين, romanized: Filasṭīn[d]), officially the State of Palestine (دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn),[e] is a state in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Founded on 15 November 1988 and officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), it claims the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip as its territory, all of which has been Israeli-occupied territories since the 1967 Six-Day War.[5][17]
Source: Wiki-Pedia State of Palestine
@@Furry_Dog-ry9op "which almost all Palestinians have rejected over the past 75 years"
Why would anyone have to accept to had their land stolen? Or to live near the genociders that love to massacre them?
Fact: You’re mistaken.
My friend has an old Bible (1600s or 1800s) and it contained a map of the land now called Israel. The name written across it was “Palestine” and also referred to as, “The Holy Land.”
I seriously needed to hear about concrete action that can be taken from abroad to put pressure on western politicians to rethink their stance on Gaza. Impunity is a curse!
We want "closure", for every Palestine life and Palestinian injured in 75 years of the Holocaust on the defenceless peaceful peoples of Palestine 🇵🇸
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Hamas is getting closer, gang members too.
@@Furry_Dog-ry9op "FACT: there never was a country called Palestine,"
The facts:
The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern Tel Aviv-Yafo and Gaza.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica -> Palestine
@@Furry_Dog-ry9op " there is not one today,"
Reality:
Palestine (Arabic: فلسطين, romanized: Filasṭīn[d]), officially the State of Palestine (دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn),[e] is a state in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Founded on 15 November 1988 and officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), it claims the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip as its territory, all of which has been Israeli-occupied territories since the 1967 Six-Day War.[5][17]
Source: Wiki-Pedia State of Palestine
@@Furry_Dog-ry9op "which almost all Palestinians have rejected over the past 75 years"
Why would anyone have to accept to had their land stolen? Or to live near the genociders that love to massacre them?
Thank you, “The Big Picture”, for bringing Mr. Ali, a phenomenal, human being, to our attention. We wish him and his team continued success going forward. Help Humanity, help us all……….you give us HOPE.
Thank you Tayab Ali for your bravery. So hopeful after watching this that there will be accountability.👏
Justice must prevail, thank you Mr Ali. So glad to see that it's being addressed legally.
Please do a class action for Israel's Palestinian hostages in jail and the children. Its grossly unfair and It must be addressed as well.
Thank you very much for your work. They are very important so that people can understand what is going on. Unfortunately, we are being lied to by the official media and almost all politicians. This makes your task all the more important. Thank you very much and God bless and protect you and your loved ones. Greetings from Paraguay
Watch AlJaxeerabEnglish you will see both sides of this atrocitous genocide and displacement of Palestinians told to move to south Israeli Zionist IDF then blow upb5he north ever. More then they go to soul th tell people yo move east to the dessert no water food and only a few tents or sheets to cover people some have no shelter Mo food no water, genocide of roughly 4500 people and displacement of Palestinians aNd doing same on a smaller scale in the West Bank. USisrael are using the Hitler playbook to the latter, copying everything he did to Jews. It’s fascism on the go, WHO IS GOING TO N STOP THEM.??NOBODY HAMAS IS TRYING SO ARE HOUTIS NOW THEY DO NOT Have the WEAPONS THE ISRAELIS HAVE SO ON IT GOES AS HAMAS CANNOT BE FINISHED ITS AN IDEOLOGY NOT A ARMY OR MARINE GROUP AIR FORCE SO ZIONISTS WILL CARRY ON GENOCIDE OF they cannot go to court they own the highest people in the world money talks louder that truth I’m afraid. All is lost unless us stop this genocide it will carry on. ❤️🌍🇵🇸⚖️⚖️❤️🌍🇵🇸⚖️⚖️❤️🌍🇵🇸⚖️⚖️🇵🇸🇵🇸⚖️⚖️🇵🇸🇵🇸
Thank you, Tayab Ali !! You have my full support as the UK government and opposition has been complicit in selling arms and complicit in war crime! You have the full support of the majority of the British public!
Will the US government forever be allowed to operate with impunity?
Some English parents were upset because a group of students sent money abroad to support kids´health in a war zone. Do those parents know that a big part of the money that comes into England from ABROAD is taxes paid by the Commonwealth citizens of the world. And England does nothing to support those already independent (Commonwealth) countries but it takes their money without shame.
Unbelievably inspiring talk here today. Please, take courage. My god, we need your voice, your work, your humour. Please, please, please keep sharing the way to prosecute individual government officials for being complicit in war crimes. Our way toward a decent future depends on people with your sort of integrity. Bowing to you, sir. Rest. Keep teaching us. Huge appreciation. Your families must be so proud.
Praying for Palestine 🇵🇸 justice and safety to the people🤲
Tayab Ali, thanks for your honesty but you should know better. To say the UK (3:15) “United Kingdom to some degree.” The British started this mess during the late 19th Century occupation of Palestine and sealed the deal with the Balfour Declaration in 1917. What we need is hold countries accountable for breaking international laws in the international Court of Justice, promulgate world peace by refraining from building more weapons, justice, and equality for all. That’s how we stop worldwide terrorism.
Ending colonialism will also help end terrorism!!!
I agree with you totally...
I personally believe this man would stand for anyone in Court. This is the epitome of a Lawyer, the true advocates that used to exist. One who believes in equality of Law for everyone.
Id be very interested to hear interviews, experiences and an assesment from people who were represented in criminal cases by this man. I believe he would be a fighter. Much like that typical dashing lawyer series that used to be popular that would fight regardless of whether he approved of the particular criminal act.
What about all those British passport holders fighting in a foreign army committing w@r crim@s? Should they be banned from returning and have their passport cancelled?
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Exacyly
In South Africa, the SA government has made it clear that it is illegal for its citizens to join the IDF.
They are considered, and they do risk losing their rights, see how we treat former warriors from ISIS. Even their children, held captive abroad risk losing citizenship.
This guy is Brilliant!
I don’t recommend him to become a politician only because he is more needed to hold the politicians accountable for their acts and get them into legal trials 👍👍
Amazing interview and what a kind generous man , we need more of that in this world
Well dne for your.work
Essential truth telling and legal strategy...thank you both!
Arrest Lindsey Graham.
It’s well past time to hold those who make decisions accountable
You're right, enough talk. The time is now.
This is amazing
Thanks Tayab Ali for your valuable advice and insight. Jazakallah
Thank you for your courage Tayen Ali!
Where is Amal Clooney? Why is she not doing anything?
Clooney is her surname and the answer
75 years! 75 not any longer! Palestine will be free this time!
Amen.
In the course of your pursuit of justice pls do look into all the previous President n Prime Minister WAR CRIMES even though they were committed yrs back: civilians too were charged for their past crimes!!!
A breath of fresh air to see learned people using their knowledge to get right to the heart of the humans that are getting away with murder Thank you
Reminds me of John Adams who represented a British soldier involved in the Boston Massacre. He believed the law is the law for everyone.
A local synagogue permanently had a giant banner on the outside that says “we stand with Israel.” I was confused. But it was more like, ‘of course, makes sense, why the need to broadcast?”
Since a few weeks ago, in the midst of the worst attacks on Gaza, they replaced the banner with an even better one that read, “We PROUDLY stand with Israel. Celebrating 75 Years.”
I physically felt the pain.
I have always loved Jewish people. And it grew as I got older. I didn’t know there were deeply rooted divides like this.
How do we unite after this? Where is the space for me to approach for a dialogue? How am I to take the exponentially increasing “we stand with Israel” signs popping up in a daily basis?
What do those signs say to me?
It's still going on ..i fault ive seen everything !!! I didn't think i could anything any worse .but i did . People are laughing .at all the dying and the dead children, i can't get my mind around this. How can anyone laugh and grown adults laughing at all this death? It's so shameful. It's like im living in a different reality. it's unbelievable. It's so sicking to laugh at dead children
Why is no-one talking about King Charles who is also complicit in genocide?Why is the media silent and why is he silent?
He’s been busy trying to learn to wipe his own arse since his mam popped her clogs
King Charles is just a government puppet just like the queen even their speeches are written for them. He can't do anything say anything, the government dictates to him he signs off without questioning it even though it's his moral duty to look after his people, there is so much poverty, unemployment, housing issues, children are suffering, homelessness people can't pay their mortgage or rents being evicted, it's just a diabolical situation.
If you were a coconspirator to genocide, would you be talking about it? That is not how organized crime works. They keep their mouth shut.
Amazing about time the law becomes equal for all people including leaders of states and countries , Anyone breaking the law should b dealt with no matter who they are so big respect to u sir and ur team for at least trying❤
Are you working with lawyers in the United States to do the same thing against politicians?
Amazing gentleman.
👍✌✌Without hope we are lost. Mahmoud Darwish❤💯🤲👐👏👍
Mr Tayeb , God bless your work !
“The impunity is a curse” SO TRUE. 🎯
THE MEETING THAT INVOKED RULES 99 SHOULD BE CHANGED SO THAT IF A COUNTRY HAS RELITIONS AND IS HELPING THE COUNTRY WHO IS KILLING CIVILIANS CANT VETO ANY RESELUTIONS THAT RIGHT SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM IN THAT CASE
I agree...
the usa are funding fat soldiers to murder starving children
The usa should have NO RIGHT TO VETO..
Heard you today speaking to Owen Jones. Absolutely brilliant analysis that has helped me so.much in educating myself about Palestinian history and politics. Following you on X and will keep reading. Thank you. Lorraine.
The commentators that ignore the past 75 years, deliberately so, have lost all credibility to me. Switching from BBC news to Al Jazeera (English) broadcasts was one of the first changes I had to make. Boycotting more deliberately now too. Thank you for your coverage 😊 PS i am also watching a lot of Middle East Eye, Novera media etc.
Owen Jones is very truthful too
Thank God such lawyers exist. This man and his team are doing tremendous work...
May Tayab Ali and all his siblings...stay safe!
What about people who are being sensored arrested and even prosecuted around the world for speaking up against this atrocities and even for commenting or raising voice for the freedom of Palestinians hope they add the rights of the voices of the people around the world to gain more freedom of speech .
We have just learned that Samer Abu Daqua an experienced AJ cameraman was killed by an Israeli drone while filming the bombed out Farhana school in Khan Younes. Samer was only 45 years old with young children. He carried no weapon, only his camera to record the truth.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) relies on the amount and quality of high level evidence to decide acts of genocide and to charge those guilty of such crimes. Since October 8, Israel has deliberately prevented/destroyed the collection of high level evidence by killing and imprisoning people, including cameramen, professional journalists, medical personnel, and observers. They have also deliberately caused blackouts, relentlessly bombed buildings, homes, schools, hospitals, infrastructures …leaving only rubble, and have barred outside unbiased investigators into Gaza.
The ICC and/or other international high courts need to be informed- the intentional prevention/destruction of data is just as important as evidence at hand.
Destruction of evidence is a crime in normal criminal proceedings, I don't see it is going to protect them. Everyone knows what is happening. We just don't know the exact details.
They’re also suppressing hostage testimonies and burying the cars burned on Oct 7.
They have the only weapons powerful enough to melt metal car frames, a fact concurrent with witness testimonies.
What continues to gall me is they’ve still produced no evidence of any of the worst atrocities, those that were used to garner public support for what they’re doing now.
No 40 babies, only one caught in crossfire. No testimonies of sexual assault much less rape kits.
Add in witness testimonies and Haaretz reporting and the story sounds much different than what we’ve been told.
Im so ashamed of united states and the people think its ok to kill babies.. This makes me sick? Thank you Mr.Tayab Ali.. I pray for Gaza and all the beautiful Palestinian .. Leave the poor people alone in GAZA . .. Who gives united state and Israel to think they can attack GAZA ??
May Allah give you the strength and courage to endeavour on this journey and may he keep you steadfast and In sha Allah justice for the people of Palestine and their plight Ameen.
Ameen
International humanitarian laws were created- but Israel, the US, and UK have been disregarding them.
Excellent point to bring up, about consumer accountability. A little harder to boycott, when one behemoth owns 20 some brands, then another mega corporation also has 20 some products of different well known business names.
This inspirational and fearless man brings hope for everyone. We need more like you. Thank you.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Your a human after my own heart, we need to be on the right side of justice and mankind.
Thanks for this interview with Tayab who speaks the Truth. He is giving hope to many people using the law correct way. It has been very disturbing to see the person who we vote and give power acts only in his/her own interest and not for people's wellbeing and most of all for peace.
My forefathers fought for the rights that I have had all my life, not only in the last 2 world wars but (in my opinion) they fought against the very people who were treating them as slaves and refused to allow (at great cost) there grandchildreen to be treated as they had been.
This is why since also listening to my Dad telling me about Palestine and the 2 years he spent there from 1946 to 1948 having fought in WW2, I am very pro Palestine and have been all my life (now in my 60s), and I have never knowingly bought anything produced in Israel for over 50 years. This may sound stupid and maybe it is, but it makes me feel better.
There is hope ❤ thanks
What an amazing interviewer and guest.
Tayab Ali was brilliant despite the interviewer who will hopefully be finding out and implementing the ways that interviewing works.(please don’t smile when you’re both talking about suffering or other similar things. Your can look respectful without smiling too much.)
The world need you for justice .SALUTE TO YOU
Thank-you.
Law on its own is influenced by powerful lobbyists who influence the legislators and Govts. Take AIPAC or its sister institutions as an example in the US nominees for local, federal election. None will go through the competition if not verbally or in writing an article express their devotion to Israel interest! These powerful, well funded lobbyists like AIPAC and its branches are also backed by arms, defence and tech industries that also pressurise politicians, legislators to millitary solutions than political solutions. Their members could even be the founder, paid politicians or stakeholders. War is a business. We just saw a few days ago how the CEO of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, BAE, etc, etc, ALL welcomed warmly Zelensky in one room!! He is not just a US puppet, president of Ukr, he is possibly a resident in their pockets. It's the same story with the head of NATO, EU, Nathanyahu and literally all leaders, including party leaders in waiting. They have them compromised inhumanely before. Rarely can we have a leader uncompromised and that won't be allowed to win, serve people or complete the full term of his/her leadership. They would smear, assassinate the character, forcibly remove or physically assassinate them. History is full of them.
Why the music in the background of the video????
Boycott Israel:
Starbucks, McDonald's, Tim Hortons, Dominos, Pizza Hut, Papa Johns, Popeyes, PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Walmart, Costco, KFC, Taco Bell, Burger King, Krispy Kreme, Nestle, Evian, Dasani, Aquafina, Gatorade, Lipton, Minute Maid, Tropicana, Monster Energy, Kirkland, General Mills, Herseys, Danone, Sarah Lee, Maybelline, MAC, Sephora, L'Oreal, Johnson & Johnson, Garnier, Dove, Olay, Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essences, Pantene, Old Spice, Axe, Ikea, Gap, Louis Vuitton, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, H&M, Tom Ford, Victoria's Secret, Tiffany, Chanel, Diesel, Dior, Fendi, Prada, YSL, Zara, Nike, Adidas, Champion, Puma, Timberland, Caterpillar, Levi's, American Eagle, Sketchers, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Disney, Motorola, IBM, Intel, HP, Hyundai, Ford, Volvo, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes
Brilliant 👍 thanks 😊
I'd recommend following BDS who provide a much smaller list of impactful boycotts. They've done the research over many years so very helpful. Not all those on that list have anything to do with Israel
@@saeedahmed6416Tim Horton, why, it’s Canadian stuff.
@@vivienneL1011 ......"Tim Hortons"....Mmmmmm....
And your point is?
@@Furry_Dog-ry9op "FACT: there never was a country called Palestine,"
The facts:
The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern Tel Aviv-Yafo and Gaza.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica -> Palestine
EQUAL BALANCE OF RIGHTS FOR JEWS AND PALESTINIANS PERMANENTLY.
To the gravediggers of innocents
Gaza, day and night I hear the cries of your children, I see the blood color of your camps, I hear the groans of all the mothers Rocking their babies who have already left Join the little lifeless bodies Wrapped in a white shroud, Aligned on the gray ground of dust Spread by the hatred of their executioner, While the tomb is being dug, Which will, finally, be the shelter and the dwelling, Which they could not have on their own land. Z.M
They consider themselves Above The Law.... SUBHAN ALLAH Tabarak-Allah Knows Best
About grand time 🙏🏼
what a beautiful voice for humanity
Yes yes yes. US and UK.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
I have such an immense respect for Tayab Ali.
And live together
Mr, Ali could you please tell us the role of icc, un and unsc are these organizations work for us, uk, israel and their alies only
Tayab Ali is one of the few hopes for the credibility of International rules based order. Furthermore international rules based order is one of few hopes for humanity. Hence Tayab Ali is one of the few hopes for humanity. Stay true and strong.
From a fellow proud Yorkshireman.
Tayab Ali not only ‘Pyar ka dushman’ but ‘Israel ka dushman’ too iykyk 😉
Respect to this man ...
Thank you 🇵🇸
Don't forget Nuremburg after world war2 mr netanyahu
LOWER THE BACKGROUND AUDIO THAT IS SUPPOSEDLY MUSIC. 😊
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International law
Due justice will be delivered by Allah
on the most accurate scale of justice
I live near Munich. Maybe it is unnoticed outside of Germany but the vice president of the Bavarian local government, Hubert Aiwanger, has been accused of being complicit of distributing (and maybe even authoring?) flyers with antisemitic tropes at the age of 16/17 which even before October 7 was quite an issue. Sad to say, it had no consequences for him in the upcoming election, many people stepped in saying it was an error of a teenager who just did not know what he was doing. I repeat: at the age of 16 or 17. I have been this age once too and like Tayab I started forming my political opinion back then.
Sorry for the spam but I can't help shining a light on that.
What a lovely man.insptational.Thank you
Bitte mit.übersetzung
Yes.
But what if Scotland Yard does what the government wants?
Yes, hold the political class accountable for their decisions. 💯 If politicians are allowed to act as though the law and standards of behaviour do not apply to them, then we allow enemies to develop and gather power to themselves, which should never be allowed to go on unchecked and unchallenged.
Economy has no east-west.
Environment has no east-west
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HERE IS THE INTELIGENCE SPEAKING!.
Sometimes the truth van be nuts. What would be the result of an action like that our dear civilized friends wouldn't take that wright but they would understand be ready for the scalation
What a champion
1:30:17 I’m so glad to hear you’re challenging the analysis that Britain do not recognize Palestine as a state and therefore the war between Palestine and Israel is a civil war.
It makes no sense to me when the British clearly recognized Palestine as a country with a people even in the early 1900s in private memos written by Mr. Balfour during development of Versailles treaty and is available in British archives online, the Sykes-Picot agreement and even in the Balfour Declaration itself. There are also letters between Britain and Arab representatives for Palestine and other Arab regions wherein the British not only recognized Palestine but recognized it as belonging and to continue to belong to the Arab world.
Palestine appeared on world maps before 1947.
So, when Britain has, in the early 1990s acted in accordance and in their writing of treating Palestine as a country with recognized borders that was previously occupied by the Ottoman Empire,, how can it suddenly decide later that it is not? This all predated the United Nations and League of Nations. How can they just say “well, you’re not in this club so we don’t recognize you as a country…even though we’ve been working with you as a country up until we just decided ourselves not to”?
This makes no sense to me.
If they recognized Palestine before, and then they recognized in the Loan and UN the state of Israel, then how else do they regard the lands of Gaza and West Bank and East Jerusalem?
They didn’t just disappear or stop existing with a people on them…so, how can Britain say they recognized it existed before but now they don’t?
It makes no sense to me.
Also, the repeated use of veto to prohibit Palestine becoming a state recognized in the UN is an abuse of veto.
They cannot fairly say we can’t recognize you cos you’re not in our club, and also we won’t let you in our club. So, sorry, that’s the international law that we made up for justice and peace.
I hope there are legal grounds for this argument because just on the face of it, using logic, applying principles of fairness, the British position makes no sense.
The British position does remain as it always was, completely contradictory, not only in the legal framework , but with itself, and I believe this is absolutely intentional now as it was back in the early 1900s.
This is what was written in the secret memo by the British to their allies when trying to reach agreement on the Versailles treaty:
“This brings into clear relief what I fear is the unhappy truth, namely, that France, England,and America have got themselves into a position over Syrian problem [definition of Syria encapsulate Palestine at this time] so inextricably confused that no really neat and satisfactory issue is not possible for any of them.
The situation is affected by five documents, being with our [british] promise to the ruler of the Hedjaz [arabs] in 1915; going on to the Sykes-Pivot Agreement with France of September 1916; followed by the Anglo-French declaration of November 18 and concluding with the Covenant of the League of Nations of 1919; and the directions given to the Commission sent out to examine the Arab problem on the spot; - directions which, it must be observed, were accepted by France, Britain and America, though the Commission itself was, in the end, purely American in composition. These documents are not consistent with each other; they represent no clear-cut policy; the policy which they confusedly adumbrate is not really the policy of the Allied and Associates Powers…”
This is an excerpt down the Memorandum by Mr. Balfour (Paris) respecting Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia” dates August 11, 1919.
🇿🇦 ya,first bring your Tony Blair to justice for warcrimes complicity🇿🇦 this before he also dies of old age like kisinger
Blair and Bush for war crimes, but the head of ICC is giving total impunity for certain countries.
Greg Mukhaibar a former UN human rights employee was stating that. That's why, he resigned.
The ICC and the UN don't equally apply their laws and rules. Those laws are there to enable imperialism to use them as excuses to invade, destroy and occupy countries in Africa and in the Middle East.
let's bring him to ICC
Middle nation yt has a legal team also
I always wanted to know is the st is rale actually legal. I could never see how it can be. How an occ upier/settler can make a state on land without the land owners compliance.
To note: the CORE of the problem is the politician, the one in charge. Great job! God bless all you do, it will change the world.
I hope he does prosecute for all the years the Palestine’s have been hurt