John Dugard: Apartheid and Occupation under International Law (1/4)

part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ieq4Ef3SPk

Hisham B. Sharabi Memorial Lecture

Apartheid and Occupation under International Law

with

Professor John Dugard
Former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Visiting Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University

26 March 2009

While the international community continues to posture and push for a settlement to the decades-long Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory, international legal institutions are positioned to offer insights based on developed international treaties and customs. They are underutilized to the detriment of peace. Drawing on his experience as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Professor John Dugard, who returned from a fact-finding mission to Gaza early this month, will discuss how international law and the institutions charged with upholding it can enable a break in the Israel-Palestinian impasse.

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[45mooks]

No, the real essence is the stealing of land. When you steal someone's land, they're going to be pissed.

Don't believe me? Then tell me your address and I'll come around with an armed group of me and my friends to move you and your family from your home and occupy it. Lets see how peaceful and non-brutal you are then, before you start using such terms to describe others.

[DanKelso]

THE REAL ESSENSE OF ''MIDEAST'' CONFLICT''

Arabs want to destroy Israel, but Israel doesn't want to be destroyed.

The obstacle to peace remains Arab terrorism perpetrated by Arabs to annihilate an Israel of any size. And the inability of Arabs to live side by side with Jews, or anyone else.

(Kurds, Coptics, Black Christians of Sudan, Berbers and Chaldeans)

Notice how Dugard never mentions the Arab brutality of these people.

[DanKelso]

Dugard, what do you think Israel should have done, seeing there civilians are being blown to bits by Palestinian suicide bombers, who are deliberately targeting elderly Holocaust survivors at Passover Seders, teenagers in pizza parlours, buses, disco's, cafe's and restaurants.

[DanKelso]

16 years after Oslo, thousands of Jews have been murdered and maimed for life. Jews have been burned by Arab suicide bombers in buses, like they were burned and gassed in the crematoria of Hitler. Arabs kill Jews not because they live in Israel, but because they are alive.

[DanKelso]

Just to let John Dugard know, the U.N condemmed Israel for arresting Eichmann in 60, Entebee rescue in 76 and bombing Iraq's nuclear facility in 81.

The U.N said it was against international law to kidnap Eichmann from Argentina and demanded Israel send him back there. All the Arab countries agreed with this resolution.

I could see Dugard in 1960 condemming Israel for arresting Eichmann and defying the U.N

[DanKelso]

All I see is the Palestinians provoking war and using any method they can to get all of Israel. How can there be peace among a people, that have no value for men women and children.

[DanKelso]

The Arabs continually initiate the violence. The Israelis have not fired the first shots. Do the Palestinians expect not to be fired back on? Its ok for them to blow up school children and civilians intentionally? Someone please explain to me how the Israelis could possibly live next to such a violent people. I personally don't see how it can be done at this point.