Palestinians signed to join Rome Statute.

[Daniyel]

No more waiting Palestinian president signs Rome Statute to join ICC RT News

Any The Guardian readers?

 

[Phoenall]

No more waiting Palestinian president signs Rome Statute to join ICC RT News

Any The Guardian readers?

Just means that they are now on a slippery slope downhill to being dragged into court for war crimes

 

[Billo_Really]

If the UNSC won't give them justice, maybe the ICC will.

 

[P F Tinmore]

No more waiting Palestinian president signs Rome Statute to join ICC RT News

Any The Guardian readers?

Just means that they are now on a slippery slope downhill to being dragged into court for war crimes

Hey, nothing ventured nothing gained

Palestinian crimes are chickenfeed compared to Israel.

 

[Daniyel]

Israel mulls war crimes lawsuits against top Palestinians - Israel News Ynetnews
That'd be the next battle Palestinians called against Israel, hmm.. end of the road.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Israel mulls war crimes lawsuits against top Palestinians - Israel News Ynetnews
That'd be the next battle Palestinians called against Israel, hmm.. end of the road.

There is no international law against terrorism.

 

[Daniyel]

Israel mulls war crimes lawsuits against top Palestinians - Israel News Ynetnews
That'd be the next battle Palestinians called against Israel, hmm.. end of the road.

There is no international law against terrorism.

War crimes, not terrorism - sorry for shutting you down.

 

[P F Tinmore]

 

[Kondor3]

Hell, Palestine isn't even a Nation-State, in any true and Real-World sense of the phrase.

The Jews of Israel have had a bellyful of Euro-Trash judging (and killing) them, within Living Memory.

Israel is not a signatory, and the ICC has no jurisdiction over it.

Nor over any parcels of land presently under Israeli control.

And, of course, the ICC has no muscle to enforce its biased will.

Never mind an extreme reluctance to oppose the United States, in support of Israel.

The Palestinians can sign agreements and protocols and treaties from now 'til the cows come home.

That, and $3.50, will get them a cup of coffee, at Starbucks.

Translation: It doesn't mean shit, in the final analysis.

Although pissant Palestinian terror groups like Hamas (and even Fatah) would like to pretend otherwise.

Still... they're entitled to dream, and to delude themselves, for as long as they like.

In the end, it won't mean bopkess, but they will need to have that shoved into their faces, by circumstances, before they believe it.

1. the Palestinians must file charges

2. the Palestinians must prove their case (in light of their own egregious terrorism)

3. the ICC must accept the case.

4. the ICC must convict on the charges

5. the ICC must have the muscle to enforce its verdict

Uhhhh... yeah... good luck with all of that.

Tee-hee.

 

[RoccoR]

P F Tinmore, et al,

You make such broad and sweeping statements.

You might want to read the "introduction" to the UN Legislative Guide to the Universal Anti-Terrorism Conventions and Protocols V.03-85663 (E), and the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings (A/RES/52/164). I would also recommend that you glance over the "Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts" published a year ago this month (S/PV.7101).

Israel mulls war crimes lawsuits against top Palestinians - Israel News Ynetnews
That'd be the next battle Palestinians called against Israel, hmm.. end of the road.

There is no international law against terrorism.

(REFERENCES) (Includes but is not limited to

• S/RES/2083 (2012)
  • Reaffirming the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and international law, including applicable international human rights, refugee and humanitarian law, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts, stressing in this regard the important role the United Nations plays in leading and coordinating this effort,
• S/RES/1566 (2004)
  • Calls upon Member States to cooperate fully on an expedited basis in resolving all outstanding issues with a view to adopting by consensus the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism and the draft international convention for the suppression of acts of nuclear terrorism;
• S/RES/1373 (2001)
  • Reaffirming the need to combat by all means, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts,
• S/RES/1269 (1999)
  • Calls upon all States to implement fully the international anti-terrorist conventions to which they are parties, encourages all States to consider as a matter of priority adhering to those to which they are not parties, and encourages also the speedy adoption of the pending conventions;

(COMMENT)

The international community has discussed and addressed "terrorism" for several decades, with the intention of promoting cooperative efforts with each other, particularly through bilateral and multilateral agreements and arrangements, to prevent and suppress terrorist acts, protect their nationals and other persons against terrorist attacks and bring to justice the perpetrators of such acts. In that context, terrorism is often charged through specific crimes. The Global Plan is outlined in The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (A/RES/60/288) ---- and the Plan of Action associated with the CT Strategy.

Here is a summary of the 14 major International legal instruments and additional amendments dealing with terrorism.

1. 1963 Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed On Board Aircraft
(Aircraft Convention)

• Applies to acts affecting in-flight safety;
• Authorizes the aircraft commander to impose reasonable measures, including restraint, on any person he or she has reason to believe has committed or is about to commit such an act, where necessary to protect the safety of the aircraft; and
• Requires contracting States to take custody of offenders and to return control of the aircraft to the lawful commander.

2. 1970 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft
(Unlawful Seizure Convention)

• Makes it an offence for any person on board an aircraft in flight to "unlawfully, by force or threat thereof, or any other form of intimidation, [to] seize or exercise control of that aircraft" or to attempt to do so;
• Requires parties to the convention to make hijackings punishable by "severe penalties"
• Requires parties that have custody of offenders to either extradite the offender or submit the case for prosecution; and
• Requires parties to assist each other in connection with criminal proceedings brought under the Convention.

2010 Protocol Supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft

• Supplements the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft by expanding its scope to cover different forms of aircraft hijackings, including through modern technological means;
• Incorporates the provisions of Beijing Convention relating to a threat or conspiracy to commit an offence.

3. 1971 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation
(Civil Aviation Convention)

• Makes it an offence for any person unlawfully and intentionally to perform an act of violence against a person on board an aircraft in flight, if that act is likely to endanger the safety of the aircraft; to place an explosive device on an aircraft; to attempt such acts; or to be an accomplice of a person who performs or attempts to perform such acts;
• Requires parties to the Convention to make offences punishable by "severe penalties"; and
• Requires parties that have custody of offenders to either extradite the offender or submit the case for prosecution.

4. 1973 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons
(Diplomatic Agents Convention)

• Defines an "internationally protected person" as a Head of State, Minister for Foreign Affairs, representative or official of a State or international organization who is entitled to special protection in a foreign State, and his/her family; and
• Requires parties to criminalize and make punishable "by appropriate penalties which take into account their grave nature" the intentional murder, kidnapping or other attack upon the person or liberty of an internationally protected person, a violent attack upon the official premises, the private accommodations, or the means of transport of such person; a threat or attempt to commit such an attack; and an act "constituting participation as an accomplice".

5. 1979 International Convention against the Taking of Hostages
(Hostages Convention)

• Provides that "any person who seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure, or to continue to detain another person in order to compel a third party, namely, a State, an international intergovernmental organization, a natural or juridical person, or a group of persons, to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or implicit condition for the release of the hostage commits the offence of taking of hostage within the meaning of this Convention".

6. 1980 Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
(Nuclear Materials Convention)

• Criminalizes the unlawful possession, use, transfer or theft of nuclear material and threats to use nuclear material to cause death, serious injury or substantial property damage.

Amendments to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material

• Makes it legally binding for States Parties to protect nuclear facilities and material in peaceful domestic use, storage as well as transport; and
• Provides for expanded cooperation between and among States regarding rapid measures to locate and recover stolen or smuggled nuclear material, mitigate any radiological consequences or sabotage, and prevent and combat related offences.

7. 1988 Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts of Violence at Airports Serving International Civil Aviation, supplementary to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation (Extends and supplements the Montreal Convention on Air Safety)
(Airport Protocol)

• Extends the provisions of the Montreal Convention (see No. 3 above) to encompass terrorist acts at airports serving international civil aviation.

8. 1988 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation
(Maritime Convention)

• Establishes a legal regime applicable to acts against international maritime navigation that is similar to the regimes established for international aviation; and
• Makes it an offence for a person unlawfully and intentionally to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, threat, or intimidation; to perform an act of violence against a person on board a ship if that act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship; to place a destructive device or substance aboard a ship; and other acts against the safety of ships.

2005 Protocol to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation

• Criminalizes the use of a ship as a device to further an act of terrorism;
• Criminalizes the transport on board a ship various materials knowing that they are intended to be used to cause, or in a threat to cause, death or serious injury or damage to further an act of terrorism;
• Criminalizes the transporting on board a ship of persons who have committed an act of terrorism; and
• Introduces procedures for governing the boarding of a ship believed to have committed an offence under the Convention.

9. 1988 Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf
(Fixed Platform Protocol)

• Establishes a legal regime applicable to acts against fixed platforms on the continental shelf that is similar to the regimes established against international aviation.

2005 Protocol to the Protocol for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Fixed Platforms Located on the Continental Shelf

• Adapts the changes to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation to the context of fixed platforms located on the continental shelf.

10. 1991 Convention on the Marking of Plastic Explosives for the Purpose of Detection
(Plastic Explosives Convention)

• Designed to control and limit the used of unmarked and undetectable plastic explosives (negotiated in the aftermath of the 1988 Pan Am flight 103 bombing);
• parties are obligated in their respective territories to ensure effective control over "unmarked" plastic explosive, i.e., those that do not contain one of the detection agents described in the Technical Annex to the treaty;
• Generally speaking, each party must, inter alia, take necessary and effective measures to prohibit and prevent the manufacture of unmarked plastic explosives; prevent the movement of unmarked plastic explosives into or out of its territory; exercise strict and effective control over possession and transfer of unmarked explosives made or imported prior to the entry into force of the Convention; ensure that all stocks of unmarked explosives not held by the military or police are destroyed, consumed, marked, or rendered permanently ineffective within three years; take necessary measures to ensure that unmarked plastic explosives held by the military or police are destroyed, consumed, marked or rendered permanently ineffective within fifteen years; and, ensure the destruction, as soon as possible, of any unmarked explosives manufactured after the date of entry into force of the Convention for that State.

11. 1997 International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings
(Terrorist Bombing Convention)

• Creates a regime of universal jurisdiction over the unlawful and intentional use of explosives and other lethal devices in, into, or against various defined public places with intent to kill or cause serious bodily injury, or with intent to cause extensive destruction of the public place.

12. 1999 International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism
(Terrorist Financing Convention)

• Requires parties to take steps to prevent and counteract the financing of terrorists, whether direct or indirect, through groups claiming to have charitable, social or cultural goals or which also engage in illicit activities such as drug trafficking or gun running;
• Commits States to hold those who finance terrorism criminally, civilly or administratively liable for such acts; and
• Provides for the identification, freezing and seizure of funds allocated for terrorist activities, as well as for the sharing of the forfeited funds with other States on a case-by-case basis. Bank secrecy is no longer adequate justification for refusing to cooperate.

13. 2005 International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism
(Nuclear Terrorism Convention)

• Covers a broad range of acts and possible targets, including nuclear power plants and nuclear reactors;
• Covers threats and attempts to commit such crimes or to participate in them, as an accomplice;
• Stipulates that offenders shall be either extradited or prosecuted;
• Encourages States to cooperate in preventing terrorist attacks by sharing information and assisting each other in connection with criminal investigations and extradition proceedings; and
• Deals with both crisis situations (assisting States to solve the situation) and post-crisis situations (rendering nuclear material safe through the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

14. 2010 Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation
(New civil aviation convention)

• Criminalizes the act of using civil aircraft as a weapon to cause death, injury or damage;
• Criminalizes the act of using civil aircraft to discharge biological, chemical and nuclear (BCN) weapons or similar substances to cause death, injury or damage, or the act of using such substances to attack civil aircraft;
• Criminalizes the act of unlawful transport of BCN weapons or certain related material;
• A cyber attack on air navigation facilities constitutes an offence;
• A threat to commit an offence may be an offence by itself, if the threat is credible.
• Conspiracy to commit an offence, or its equivalence, is punishable.

Most Respectfully,
R

 

[rhodescholar]

No more waiting Palestinian president signs Rome Statute to join ICC RT News Any The Guardian readers?

Just means that they are now on a slippery slope downhill to being dragged into court for war crimes

Clearly they are amongst the absolute stupidest fucking people on earth, someone should test the average IQ of people living in gaza / west bank.

They are wide open to being taken to court and buried for thousands of terrorist attacks, and it can be people outside Israel who can drag them to court for them as you do not have to live in Israel to do so: Ma'alot massacre, Coastal Road massacre, 1948 declaration of war, fedayeen attacks from the 1940s - 1970s, Sbarro pizza bombing, Dolphinarium bombing - for which they should have been removed from the region, tunnels from gaza, the thousands of shooting and stabbing attacks from 1920 forward, the rocket fire from gaza since 2005, the bus, restaurant and hotel suicide bombings since 1992, etc., etc.

That doesn't even include potential lawsuits against the EU for providing aid to arafat that was used to pay for suicide bombings and to buy weapons from iran like those found on the karine A - all documented in materials and paperwork found in the China House.

The abject stupidity of abbas, the PA, and the average arab muslim there knows no bounds.

 

[Kondor3]

Nobody every credited the Palestinians with an over-abundance of Smarts... they're not exactly the brightest crayons in the box.

 

[Kondor3]

Rocco, I think you've got an admirer... don't drop your soap in the shower... and watch your "six"...

 

[Daniyel]

Is that YMCA? I'm flattered Billo, I highly recommend you should try this, maybe one day you'll finally meet your first friend.
Online Course - Five Weeks to Develop a New Friendship

 

[Kondor3]

Rocco, I think you've got an admirer... don't drop your soap in the shower... and watch your "six"...

Looks like the 'admiring post' was pulled, but, for those who saw it, before its deletion, the remark stands...

 

[aris2chat]

Case against Israel will carry no weight since Israel is not a signatory but a case against the PA/Palestine would if the application is accepted by the ICC.

 

[Daniyel]

Case against Israel will carry no weight since Israel is not a signatory but a case against the PA/Palestine would if the application is accepted by the ICC.

The 'Palesnikov'

 

[montelatici]

Well, we have the ZioNazis in a clusterf_ck claiming that non-Jews lack intelligence. Figures, coming from these racists.

 

[Daniyel]

Well, we have the ZioNazis in a clusterf_ck claiming that non-Jews lack intelligence. Figures, coming from these racists.

So now you back being offended? Hah I called you stupid not because you're not a Jew, but because you're just stupid - God knows why you got offended in the first time thou..I assume it has to be something of you being too stupid to understand, which is why you probably got offended earlier.. the infinity chains of stupidity..

 

[montelatici]

I am not offended at all, though I am American I descend from a people that have given more to Western Civilization than any other people. I am not Jewish or Muslim. I just do not like racists like you ZioNazis.