Mange i den danske opinion har da også protesteret mod denne handling. Dagbladet Politiken forsøger endog på lederplads at mobilisere Israels venner til at støtte sanktioner.
Israel skal ha’ tommeskruerne på
Stort set siden Israels besættelse af Vestbredden og Gaza i 1967 har mange kræfter, med mange forskellige motiver og forslag, forsøgt at skabe grundlag for en fredelig løsning. Men ”diplomatisk pres” på Israel har åbenlyst ikke nogen som helst effekt, med mindre det følges op af langt mere hårdhændede tiltag. Og samtidig med, at der nu er diplomatisk snak om boykot af varer fra de besatte områder, stiller USA 20 milliarder kroner i militærhjælp i udsigt.
Allerede i februar – før Corona – opfordrede partierne SF, Enhedslisten og Alternativet den danske regering til at slå ind på en strammere kurs ved: Boykot af varer fra ulovlige bosættelser, diplomatisk anerkendelse af Palæstina og øget fokus på menneskerettigheder (Information den 4. februar)
De samme toner – og lidt mere vidtgående – slår 70 palæstinensiske organisationer an med krav om:
- Stop for alt militær- og sikkerheds-samarbejde med Israel
- Opsigelse af alle frihandelsaftaler
- Forbud mod handel med varer fra de ulovlige bosættelser
- Sanktioner mod enkeltpersoner og firmaer, der begår krigsforbrydelser og brud på menneskerettighederne (Mundowess.net, 27.5.2020
Et land i krig mod sin egen befolkning
Vi har set det før – regimer, der er i krig mod deres egen befolkning. F.eks. apartheid-regimet i Sydafrika.
Det, der imidlertid er særligt for Israel er, at magthaverne systematisk prøver at fordrive næsten halvdelen af befolkningen. Den demografiske kamp er en vigtig drivkraft for den zionistiske politik. Ud af Israels befolkning på 9,2 mio. udgør den arabiske befolkning 2 mio. I de besatte områder bor der 3 mio. Det betyder, at der i alt bor 5 mio. arabiske palæstinensere i Palæstina – ud af en befolkning på 12,2 mio. Dertil kommer ca. 3 mio. flygtninge og efterkommere i nabolandene – hvoraf mange stadig lever i lejre.
Apartheid og humanisme går dårligt i spænd sammen. De daglige rapporter taler deres tydelige sprog: Bosættere sætter ild til palæstinensiske marker, soldater skyder hul i palæstinensiske vandtanke – midt under Corona-krisen, samtidig med at grænsen til selve staten Israel lukkes. Palæstinenserne – især i Gaza, et af verdens tættest befolkede områder – får under krisen lov at sejle deres egen sø.
Fordrivelses-politikken har stået på siden 30’erne, men tog for alvor fart i forbindelse med etableringen af staten Israel med den store folkefordrivelse, ’Nakba’, i forbindelse med udråbelsen af staten Israel i 1948. Kernen i denne politik er en systematisk diskrimination og chikane mod den palæstinensiske befolkningsgruppe: 3 millioner uden status som borgere, uafladelige angreb på retten til boliger, jord og vand. Samtidig med, at de besatte områder systematisk hindres i at udvikle deres eget erhvervsliv og samhandel med omverdenen. De skal være bantustans – med et reservoir af billig arbejdskraft.
Vejen til fred i regionen
Vejen til fred i regionen er at fjerne det racistiske fundament for staten Israel. Her og nu kræver det indfrielse af tre simple krav:
- Betingelsesløs israelsk tilbagetrækning fra Vestbredden, Gaza og Golan-højderne.
- Fulde demokratiske rettigheder til alle i Palæstina.
- Luk flygtningelejrene – alle flygtninge skal have ret til tilbagevenden.
Erfaringerne fra Sydafrika taler deres tydelige sprog: Kun gennem en total isolering af et apartheid- styre kan det tvinges i knæ. Så det er skrappe metoder, der skal tages i brug:
- Slut med al samhandel med Israel
- Stop for videnskabeligt, sportsligt og kulturelt samarbejde
- Stop samarbejde omkring sikkerhed og militær
- Bryd de diplomatiske forbindelser
Det var den vej, som – med de sydafrikanske modstandsorganisationers fulde støtte – bragte et flertalsstyre til veje i Sydafrika.
Derfor må vi støtte den danske boykotbevægelse: Boykot, de-investering og sanktioner
Der må sættes ind med boykot-krav på mange forskellige fronter: I forhold til stat, kommuner, regioner og butikskæder. Boykot-kampagnen må således også føres ud i fagforeninger, boligforeninger osv.
En kampagne, der opbygges lokalt, men er international i omfang, kan tvinge Israel i knæ og bane vejen for et Palæstina for alle!
SAP’s Forretningsudvalg, den 1.juni 2020
Det kan ikke gå for hurtigt Med at boykot Israel har gjort det i mange år
Israels Højesteret fandt igår tirsdag d.9 juni loven om lovliggørelse af tidligere ulovlige bosættelser på Vestbredden for forfatningsstridig og DERMED er loven nu UGYLDIG.. LMAO
High Court nixes Settlements Law as annexation approaches
By YONAH JEREMY BOB JUNE 9, 2020 22:26
The law would have retroactively legalized over 4,000 unauthorized settler units in the West Bank.
The High Court of Justice on Tuesday night struck down the 2017 Settlements Law as unconstitutional as the country nears a major decision about annexation in the West Bank.
The law, which in a rare situation, was opposed by Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit, would have retroactively legalized over 4,000 unauthorized settler units in the West Bank.
Allowing the law to stand would have been a sea change, which critics had called creeping annexation – though many unauthorized outposts would still not be legalized and there would not have been formal annexation.
The 8-1 decision – with only Justice Noam Sohlberg in dissent – is sure to bring down a new wave of condemnations from the country’s right-wing which viewed the law as a singular achievement.
However, at the same time, the ruling could bolster the High Court’s independence before the International Criminal Court which is currently deciding whether to dive deeper into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Likud expressed disappointment with the bill’s cancellation and said another bill would be drafted in its place.
Likud MK Nir Barkat said the time had come to restore the proper balance of power between the branches of government.
Blue and White responded that the decision must be respected and implemented.
“The current version of the bill went against legal norms and that was already clear when it was passed in the Knesset,” the party said.
Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin said the court “trampled Israeli democracy and basic human rights” and warned that “the Knesset will not accept the continued harm to its authority.”
The opposing viewpoints of Likud and Blue and White on the bill are likely to cause tensions that could result in a coalition crisis.
Yamina MK Bezalel Smotrich, who was the bill’s sponsor, said the court has lost its shame and waited for a weak government to issue a left-wing extremist ruling. He said the High Court had been trampling the rights of the residents of Judea and Samaria for too long.
Meretz leader Nitzan Horowitz praised the court’s decision, calling the disqualified law racist and aimed at taking Palestinian land for building settlements.
He said the message of the law’s cancellation was that the planned West Bank annexation should not be carried out.
Joint List leader Ayman Odeh called the ruling “an important victory for the Palestinians whose land was stolen by the settlers.”
The headline of the current debate before the High Court is deciding whether a State of Palestine exists which can grant it basic jurisdiction over alleged Israeli war crimes.
Yet, another massive issue is whether the ICC believes Israel’s court system is independent enough to probe potential illegalities.
The High Court’s decision to beat back the retroactive legalization of 4,000 housing units could significantly boost its credibility and encourage the ICC to leave judging the settlement enterprise and the 2014 Gaza War disputes to Israel’s judicial system and not to interfere.
On the flip side, if the government decides to proceed with annexation in early July, that decision could overtake the High Court and encourage the ICC to pursue Israel for the alleged war crime of taking Palestinian land.
For its part, Israel would argue that not only does the ICC have no jurisdiction, but that any of the areas it would annex, it has a right to the land under international law since UN Resolution 242 says that the West Bank will be divided between Israel and the Palestinians through negotiations.
Summarizing, the High Court said it was declaring the law unconstitutional since the law, “retroactively legalizes illegal building by Jews in the area [West Bank],” while having “deeply harmful consequences for the substantive rights of Palestinians.”
Regarding the High Court decision, Yesh Din lawyer Michael Sfard, who represents 40 Palestinian local councils who want their land and not compensation, said that it was incredibly significant that the justices also disqualified the law on grounds closer to what he recommended than on the grounds recommended by the attorney-general.
For example, whereas Mandelblit said that the law’s biggest issue was its blanket approach to ousting Palestinian rights from land where Jews later moved, Sfard said that there was an additional constitutional and international law problem.
He argued that the status of the IDF Central Commander as legislator of the West Bank meant that the IDF has defined the West Bank as being under the international law of belligerent occupation could not simply be altered by a piecemeal Knesset law.
Yesh Din, Peace Now, ACRI, Adalah and a large range of other human-rights groups petitioned against the law shortly after it passed in February 2017.
Gil Hoffman contributed to this report.
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MrFarid aka TheDanishHandymanOfJerusalem aka Lucifer
Set her:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/high-court-nixes-settlements-law-as-annexation-approaches-630865