On this day, 56 years ago, #Israel invaded - in a premeditated attack - Gaza and the West Bank. Despite subduing its Egyptian and Jordanian adversaries by the 10th of June, it had since occupied #Palestinian territory with no military exigency justifying it's prolongation.
Two weeks after #Israel occupied #Palestinian territory, a group of Israelies took out an ad, reading:
"Occupation leads to alien rule.
Alien rule leads to resistance.
Resistance leads to oppression.
Oppression leads to terror and counter terror.
Victims of terror are for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Prof. Michael Bothe puts it aptly: "Even if the Israeli version on the beginning of the
invasion were true (quod non) its ensuing actions concerning the West Bank violate the jus in
bello. A claim of self-defense defense fails because self-defense is only that military action… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
If this secret Israeli communication (exposed by @Akevot) wasn't dated July 1967, it could have been written today:
"Mr. Prime Minister, there are those among us who believe the occupied territory we hold will not be abandoned or negotiated (...) No third party, as strong as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
When I say premeditated attack - designed to occupy territory - that is based, in part, on the Israeli Defense Forces Military Advocate General own account of preparing for belligerent occupation from 1963 to January 1967, years before Israel alleged acting in self defense.
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