@khateeb88 Don't be so quick to discard ANY possible tool. This is the system that I personally led within--and I can tell you from that direct experience that it's been trying to deliver justice for Palestinians for a couple decades now. The only reason it's failed is the U.S. veto 1/
@khateeb88 ...at the UNSC. And that veto is hanging by one, (literally) aging thread: the generation of U.S. national security leaders of my generation & older, who grew up and formed their opinions of the conflict during the Cold War, when Israel was 'our guys' in our existential fight 2/
@khateeb88 ...against godless Communism, while most of the corrupt, secular Arab regimes standing up for Palestine were Soviet vassals. We just weren't able to break free of that mindset--not when the Palestinians started focusing on legitimate Israeli military targets and the Israelis 3/
@khateeb88 ...started killing three times as many innocent civilians as militants (like in the 2014 Gaza war), and not when Israel stopped being 'our guys' in ANY real sense of the term. But guess what? WE'RE RETIRING--and I can ALSO tell you from personal experience that the generation 4/
@khateeb88 ...coming up BEHIND us recognizes that neither the children of Palestine NOR THOSE OF ISRAEL will ever know peace UNTIL ALL KNOW JUSTICE. And even some of us old guys have started to see the light: remember, Obama let a Security Council resolution get passed that has it ON THE 5/
@khateeb88 ...RECORD that every Israeli settlement in the occupied territories IS ILLEGAL, and built on Palestinian property. That resolution isn't going to be repealed (because ALL THE OTHER P5 MEMBERS would veto THAT)...and it's sitting there like a ticking time bomb waiting for the 6/
@khateeb88 ...next administration willing to let a resolution go through saying--for example--that the State of Israel OWES BACK RENT AT MARKET RATES on every unit of housing, which will be deducted from the aid we give them, and given to the Palestinian authorities. 7/
@khateeb88 Or designating a robust, U.S.-led UN peacekeeping force whose mission is to KEEP THE IDF THE HECK OUT OF PALESTINE, and help the Palestinians build a robust security infrastructure of their own (I was actually allowed to sketch out a plan for THAT one before I retired). 8/
@khateeb88 As us old Cold Warriors age out of the population, demographics are, at last, turning the tide toward justice. Now mind you, I'm NOT telling you to put all your eggs in that basket & be patient: as Black Lives Matter has reminded us over here lately, it's not for the oppressor 9/
@khateeb88 ...to tell the oppressed what timetable is 'acceptable' for justice. Be activists. Be impatient. As you note, you've been made to wait too long for justice already. And under Trump and Netanyahu, things have unquestionably gotten WORSE, not better, these past four years. 10/
@khateeb88 But I AM telling you this basket called International Law--designed, yes, by us colonizers for our own ends--is, increasingly, in new hands--and eggs are piling up to tip the balance. Put your trust in Allah, not us. But know we're here--and there are more of us every year. 11/11
