Posts Tagged ‘ILLEGAL’

Peace groups say government’s secret plans with settler groups could prevent two-state solution
Israel is quietly extending its control over East Jerusalem in alliance with rightwing Jewish settler groups, by developing parks and tourist sites that would bring a “drastic change of the status quo in the city”, according to two Israeli groups.
Ir Amin, a group [...]

A leaked report on Jewish settlements in the West Bank shows that the Israeli government was complicit in illegal construction on land owned by Palestinians, an Israeli human rights group says.
Yesh Din said on Friday that the classsified information, compiled by the Israeli defence ministry, would allow it to help Palestinians [...]

Tel Aviv has long seen itself as a military ally of the U.S., sharing in the realization of the U.S.’s objectives.
By Jonathan Cook
Almost unnoticed, Israel and the White House signed a deal over the summer to station an early-warning missile radar system, staffed with U.S. military personnel, in Israel’s Negev desert. The media here described [...]

Closing Guantánamo sounds easy when you have support from, well, pretty much the entire world. But as former Pentagon insider Matthew Waxman tells FP, it’s not as simple as Barack Obama thinks.
Gitmo sunset? Closing the prison won’t be easy for Barack Obama.
As soon as Barack Obama was elected president two weeks ago, the calls starting [...]

This section examines the legality of the 2003 US-UK war on Iraq. Shortly before the outbreak of hostilities, UN Secretary General stated that the use of force without Council endorsement would “not be in conformity with the Charter” and many legal experts now describe the US-UK attack as an act of aggression, violating international law. [...]