On the 19th July 2024, the ICJ issued a ruling that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal, amounts to annexation, and that Israel is liable to pay reparations; a just ruling that will not be implemented. It is in the context of the UN trying to numb the world’s majority to the destruction meted on Palestinians, where over 38000 (here) have been killed, and a million face diseases and starvation, that the ICJ made its ruling for a case that begun in 2022, long before October 7th 2023, when the current war started.
The ICJ and MSM Media Show
The UN has been made into the Opium of Nations, numbing the world’s majority to ignore the great violations of the materialistic and maniacal Western minority willing to violently eliminate people that stand in the way of their material gains. The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ), sometimes styled as the “world court” was at it again this July 2024, issuing an advisory opinion that Israel should end its occupation of Palestinian territories, and that the Jewish state was liable for paying reparations for occupying territories over the past 57 years (here). The Guardian (here) uncritically reported that the ruling will add pressure to Israel to end the ongoing war in Gaza, which started long after the UN General Assembly (UNGA) requested the ICJ to issue an advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation, back in 2022. The Western Mainstream Media could not report that the previous ICJ rulings requiring Israel to end war practices constituting Genocide achieved nothing. For instance, the ‘world court’ ruled in January and May 2024 that Israel halt actions that constituted genocide, but the IDF with the US (here) and UK support continue bombing civilian homes, mosques, hospitals, refugees camps, and blockading Gaza, many months later. The ICJ always gives Israel and its backers enough wiggle room to do as they wish, allowing it (The ICJ) to retain its and the UN’s false sense of objectivity. In May 2024, both the ICJ and the International Criminal Court (ICC) claimed to seek to hold Israel to account for its war crimes (here), before the so-called “international community”, a group of former slave-trading and colonizer countries expressed outrage at the idea. However, Chatham House later revealed (here) that the ICC’s and ICJ’s actions against Israel were inconsequential. Therefore, it becomes clear that these institutions just threw a cloak over the world’s eyes, as Israel and its backers use their dagger in Gaza. The UN and its constituent bodies seem to be crafted to give all countries some false sense of representation to make its decisions appear as humanity’s collective will. Hence, the humanity becomes responsible and guilty of the opposite and destructive policies moved by the US, UK, and France, currently in Gaza, The West Bank, Lebanon, and Yemen, and previously in Iraq, Libya, and Yugoslavia among others.
Diluting UNSC Resolutions 181 (ii) and 242
The ICJ ruling’s goal was to numb the world’s majority, while the US, UK, and Israel execute their long-term execution of Palestinians. Over 38000 Gazans had already been killed (here), despite the world court’s previous rulings, in January and May 2024 that were outwardly meant to stop genocide but had no effects in restraining Israel and its backers. Also, the July ruling attempts to reinterpret the UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions, 181 (ii) of 1947 and 242, of 1967, the first of which delineated the territories for Palestinians and Jews, and the second of which made it inadmissible for each party to forcefully acquire territory. If all UNSC permanent members were sincere, both resolutions would have been implemented, and the ongoing war in Gaza might have been averted. However, The US and UK knowingly passed these resolutions to lull the world, as they continued to facilitate Israel to take over more of Palestinian lands, under various justifications. Using the aforementioned UNSC Resolutions and ICJ rulings of January, May, and July 2024 that Israel and its backers never observe, a trend emerges in which The West uses the UN mechanisms as opium, to numb the rest of the world to their fragrant criminal and genocidal behavior. Therefore, there is a need for the global majority to take note of this sad reality, in which UN resolutions or verdicts are repeatedly used to cloak The West’s pursuit of narrow-minded goals.
The ICJ and Co Smudging History
The ICJ decided to smudge pages of history and mystify otherwise clear UNSC resolutions, 181 (ii) and 242. Again, despite all permanent members passing the above resolutions, the US and UK have historically maintained their course of aiding Israel to violate them and annex Palestinian territories. It is clear that both resolutions were designed to daze and numb the rest of the world, while US leadership, as depicted in a letter by the then Secretary of State, George Schultz (in 1967) endorsed and supported Israel “to take any of Palestinian territory it needed to maintain its security” (here). The enduring duplicity of US policy is seen in how it even condemned the July 19th, 2024 ICJ ruling (here) probably thinking its action negates UNSC resolutions. Meanwhile, Israel’s claim to areas it needs to control to feel secure extends as far as Iran, Yemen, or Azerbaijan; it cannot feel safe until the entire region burns to the Ground and the US supports such a ruinous goal. Likewise, the British foreign secretary in 1967, George Brown, in his memoirs “In My Way” describes exhaustively how the UN resolution 242 was carefully worded to leave loopholes for Israel to retain the land it occupied in the 6-day war of 1967, and any other land it desired. Mr. Brown details how the UK passed resolution 242, knowing it would hold everyone but Israel, which had long-term plans to permanently retain occupied lands.
Going Forward
Interestingly, both the US and the UK passed resolution 242 to facilitate Israel to negate the clear-cut 181(ii), while the July 19th, 2024 ruling dilutes and delay both until sometime in the future when The West and Israel will have eliminated Palestinians. It is sad that other permanent UNSC members, the USSR and China, did not see through The West’s deceit or have political power and motivation to find alternatives. Retrospectively, if these nonwestern powers genuinely hoped for resolutions 181 or 242 to be observed by all parties, it is now clear that The West was insincere. Therefore, Russia and China should think of ways of injecting life into both UNSC resolutions, including the UN founding charter, to assist Palestinians to access all rights including the right to self-determination, and representation. If not, the entire region between Yemen, Iran, and Azerbaijan may be burned down as the US and the UK enforce their expansionist’s goals through Israel.
Simon Chege Ndiritu, is a political observer and research analyst from Africa, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”
