RE: Palestine Today
※→ P F Tinmore, et al,
OH, you are asking a question based on a hypothetical condition.
✪ Provide safe haven and houses to known Jihadist, Fedayeen, Hostile Insurgents, Radicalized Islamic Followers, and Asymmetric fighters with respect to whom there is credible and relevant information giving serious reasons for considering that they have been guilty of such conduct; this would include public acknowledgement as Martyrs;
Like Palestinians defending themselves and their country?
BTW, Rocco, what people, besides the Palestinians, have no right to defend themselves?
(COMMENT)
• Q1: Defending themselves and their country ?
✪⇒ Under Customary and Existing Law, all nations have the right to self-defense. The current source and origin of the contemporary view is Article 15 of the UN Charter.
✪⇒ In 1967 (June 5th), the Kingdom of Jordan → In response to the Israeli attack, → "Jordanian forces launched an offensive into Israel,"
(SOURCE - 1: Official Jordanian History) "but were soon driven back as the Israeli forces counterattacked into the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem."
• In 1967 the Arab Palestinians were defending the territory of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
✪⇒ The territory of the West Bank and Jerusalem were included → and on → "April 11, 1950, elections were held for a new Jordanian parliament in which the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank were equally represented. Thirteen days later, Parliament unanimously approved a motion to unite the two banks of the Jordan River, constitutionally expanding the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in order to safeguard what was left of the Arab territory of Palestine from further Zionist expansion." "
(SOURCE - 2: Official Jordanian History)
• Q2: Now there is an argument floating that the Arab Palestinians were not empowered to make such a decision on the matter of self-determination. BUT, the Customary and International Law is clear:
✪⇒ The United Nations position that the Arab Palestinians had no right to Self-Determination; and that such a move → to be incorporated as a sovereign part of Jordan → was incompetent and void. The UN attempted to persuade other states not to recognize the annexation. However, International law further stipulates that:
✪⇒ The political existence of the state is independent of recognition by the other states.
In the discovery of apparent facts through logical inquiry that would lead a reasonably intelligent and prudent person to believe that:
✪⇒ Arab Palestinians were not invaded by the Israelis. Whatever the nature of the territorial conflict and dispute was resolved by the Treaty of Peace in 1994. The 1994 Treaty ended the conflict in so far as the relative sovereignty and the boundary dispute. As a result of the 1994 Treaty, the Armistice Lines dissolved, as part of the last official act.
✪⇒ The Arab Palestinians having once been battling with the Israelis since 1967; without a cause of action. They claim they are defending their country, which they never established effective control or sovereignty.
✪⇒ There must be such a condition ⇒ exist "a necessity of self-defense, leaving no choice of means, and no moment of deliberation,' and furthermore that any action taken must be proportional, "since the act justified by the necessity of self-defence, must be limited by that necessity, and kept clearly within it."
The accuser (The Arab Palestinians) represents an entity that has committed a series of crimes, thereby warranting prosecution.
∑ The Arab Palestinians cannot be defending "their country" if they never had the country to start with.
Most Respectfully,
R
