Political and technical considerations can no longer be an excuse to overlook the starvation of Palestinians.


Former United Nations official
Political and technical considerations can no longer be an excuse to overlook the starvation of Palestinians.

The ICC arrest warrant may encourage national courts to use universal jurisdiction to prosecute Israeli war crimes.

No provision of international law guarantees a state’s right to exist. Statehood is a political reality not a legal one.

If the court does not issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu and Gallant, it will lose its legitimacy.

The UN must urgently take decisive action against the latest Israeli affront on the entire international community.

A suspension of Israel’s rights and privileges by the UNGA would put much more pressure on it than Palestine membership.

Cutting funding for UNRWA at this time means furthering the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

And President Biden from President Kennedy’s principled support for an occupied people’s struggle for liberation.
![Baricades set up during the Algerian War of Independence, January 1960, Street of Algier [Wikimedia Commons]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Semaine_Barricades_Alger_1960-1702304300.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
One only needs to look at the US carpet bombing of Cambodia.
