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Itay Epshtain Profile picture
@EpshtainItay
Apr 13 • 6 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
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Would #Israel, claiming to offer refuge to survivors of WW II atrocities - among them my grandparents - oppose the prevention and punishment of crimes against humanity?

This is what took place at the @UN Sixth Committee (Legal) this week: Image
Delegates considered concluding a new convention on crimes against humanity, debating whether it would close gaps in the current international legal framework, based on the draft articles of the International Law Commission, and the @IntlCrimCourt Statute. #Israel pushed back. Image
Reiterating an earlier statement (2019), the #Israeli delegate insisted on the (contentious) primacy of internal jurisdiction over international justice, and on introducing stringent limitations on universal jurisdiction to prosecute the gravest international crimes. Shameful. Image
The representative of #Israel suggested that equating the standards of the draft convention with elements of crimes developed by the @IntlCrimCourt, would lead to its rejection (by Israel? by the international community? remains unclear). Image
These are the definitions rejected by #Israel, which include deportation or forcible transfer of populations, imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty, and torture. I wonder why is that? Image
I'm proud to serve for a humanitarian organization - @NRC_Norway @NRC_Geneva - born in the ruins of WW II and committed to protecting displaced persons, and ashamed that my country of nationality - #Israel - betrays that universal lesson. Image

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Apr 11
This is member of #Israeli parliament Ariel Kallner (Likud). According to his web page, he "works to promote reforms in the Israeli legal system to remove barriers and regulations," setting as hit top priority "the issue of sovereignty throughout the entire Land of Israel." Image
In February, Kallner tabled a draft bill to amend the income tax ordinance to impose a tax of 65 percent on financial support from third-states and intergovernmental organizations (@EUCouncil @EU_Commission) to #Israeli and #Palestinian humanitarians and human rights defenders. Image
In March, he tabled a draft bill to amend the courts' law, so that Israeli, Palestinian, and international human rights defenders - supported by third states - could not effectively, independently, and impartially approach Israel's top court: Image
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Feb 24
Purported annexation of occupied #Palestinian territory would was decreed yesterday by #Israel, subsuming functions of its military government into the metropolitan government and applying its internal law and institutions to occupied territory.

Following are the details: Image
Recent changes to #Israel’s Basic Law: The Government created a ministry within the Ministry of Defense responsible for the military government of occupied Palestinian territory. Handed to Religious Zionism leader, Bezalel Smotrich, it gives effect to the coalition agreement...
1. All “civilian affairs” in the West Bank will come under the authority of the Minister (Smotrich), and be delegated to the Deputy Heads of the Israeli Civil Administration (Deputy ICA), a non-uniformed political appointee of the Minister, from within his political base.
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Jan 2
#Palestinian territory, occupied or not according to #Israel? There are not one but two arguments, presented in the alternative by the Government of Israel. This is key for @CIJ_ICJ deliberations:
When the Government of #Israel comes before the Israeli High Court, it consistently argues that #Palestinian territory is under belligerent occupation, where Israeli metropolitan law does not apply, and where the Israeli Military Government is the supreme legislator and executive
That, in turn, allowed the #Israeli military commander to undertake excessive and inadmissible legislative changes and actions in disregard of #Palestinian rights and interests under int'l law #IHL - with the Court's approval - purportedly shielding it from criticism.
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Dec 10, 2022
In 2004, the @CIJ_ICJ asserted the duty to establish, as soon as possible, a #Palestinian state. The Court was of the view, at the time, that negotiations between the parties would (likely?) resolve outstanding problems on the basis of international law. It was not the case. Image
April 2014 was the last attempt at bilateral (indirect) negotiations, after which #Israel abandoned even the appearance of trying to bring its belligerent occupation of #Palestinian territory to an end. Image
Towards the end of the month, #UNGA77 will address the question of #Palestine back to the @CIJ_ICJ, cognizant of the #Israeli government determination to continue its occupation - and with it the subversion of #Palestinian self -determination - perpetually. Image
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Nov 25, 2022
The Coalition Agreement between @netanyahu's Likud and @itamarbengvir's Jewish Power names the latter Minister of National Security, where he would be able to torment #Palestinian citizens of #Israel, Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, and across the West Bank.
In an unprecedented move, the West Bank gendarmerie (Border Police) will report to Ben-Gvir and not to the Israeli military commander of occupied #Palestinian territory. It represents a risk to Palestinians and a formal, de jure, #annexation of the West Bank in its entirety.
When the formal annexation of the West Bank came up before (in the context of the @realDonaldTrump Plan), the international community mobilized to prevent it. This is annexation, mobilization is again required.
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Nov 23, 2022
The demolition this morning of the donor-funded Isfey school in #MasaferYatta, ordered by the outgoing @yairlapid-@gantzbe #Israeli government, in grave breach of #IHL and to the absolute detriment of #Palestinian children attending the school leads to two observations: Image
The outgoing #Israeli government, sworn in on 13 June 2021 destroyed 1.237 structures in the occupied West Bank, including 201 donor-funded structures provided as humanitarian relief by @NRC_Norway and partners. As a result, 37,000 #Palestinians were deprived of a home, a school
The outgoing #Israeli government outdid the damage caused by the previous, and the incoming @netanyahu @bezalelsm @itamarbengvir government promises to bring more violent destruction. Violence, against all civilians #Palestinians and #Israelis, should be unequivocally condemned.
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