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July 09, 2004
The International Court of Justice has ruled on Israel's security fence
The pdf of their ruling can be found here--the meat of their argument starts on page 57.
UPDATES [ from Judith ] :
Dissenting US judge says ICJ did not seriously consider Palestinian attacks. (The US judge was the only dissenter. Quelle surprise. The judge who read out the ruling was from that human rights exemplar China.)
My take on all this is that the ruling is illegitimate, because one of the bedrock concepts of justice is equal treatment before the law. Any court that selectively applies legal rulings is operating from favoritism and special interests. Israel is being treated differently from many other countries which have erected fences to keep out groups which they feel are threats.
I have never studied law, so perhaps the Volokhs can either flesh this out or enlighten me if I got it wrong.
UPDATE: "J'accuse" says Benjamin in Beersheva. And Meryl fisks the ruling.
UPDATE: American Jews mobilize for PR. Sharon and the ICJ face off in a dramatic vignette from Steven I. Weiss.
UPDATE: Speaking of PR, Honest Reporting has some suggestions for advocacy. And this:
This morning's deadly bombing in Tel Aviv (pictured at right), perpetrated by Yassir Arafat's Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades, was immediately labeled by Prime Minister Sharon as "the first murder under the auspices of the International Court of Justice's ruling."UPDATE: American Jew Alan Dershowitz and Israeli Arab Najeh Abu Mukh opine on the fence.
Judith | 07/09/04 at 01:09 PM | Categories: - Israel vs. the world
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