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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: bryan275 on December 31, 2014, 09:21:00 PM
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If we went by the standards of our very own very clever TNA/URP politicians and their analysts. This in my view was the reason we went to the Hague, because we just haven't got the capacity nor the willingness to prosecute any real crimes in our home courts.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has moved dramatically to join the international criminal court, setting Palestinians on a diplomatic collision course with Israel and the US.
Abbas signed the Rome treaty governing the court and 19 other international agreements on Wednesday evening following the rejection by the UN security council of a Jordanian-backed resolution calling for the end of the Israeli occupation by 2017.
At the end of 24 hours of high diplomatic tension, Abbas – under pressure from other members of the Palestinian leadership – followed through on the threat to join the ICC, which would open the way to Palestinians pursuing Israel for war crimes in the court of last resort, based in The Hague.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/palestinian-president-international-criminal-court
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A comment here:
http://jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9250/icc-involvement-palestine-truth-reality
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Abbas hopes to kill two birds with one stone: Hamas and Israel. It is hard however to get any of them. Hamas has a right to resist occupation. That right is inalienable. Israel will be protected by Big Brother.