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   From: MEjercit@HotMail.com   
      
   Susan Cohen wrote:   
   > The General Assembly should adopt a resolution expelling Israel from   
   > membership in the United Nations, as envisaged in article 6 of the   
   > Charter.  Even if the expulsion could be blocked by a veto by the   
   > United States, the General Assembly could still assert its authority   
   > by denying accreditation to Israeli diplomats, as it did 1974 with   
   > regard to Apartheid-South African diplomats.  At that time it was a   
   > matter of Apartheid, an crime against humanity.  Today we are   
   > confronted with a far more dangerous situation emerging from Israeli   
   > aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.   
   >   
   > The General Assembly should call on all states to immediately break   
   > all commercial and diplomatic relations with Israel and take   
   > appropriate measures to arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu, who should be   
   > tried by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The arrest   
   > warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant were already issued on 21   
   > November 2024, seven months ago, and have not yet been implemented.   
   >   
   > Israel’s unprovoked aggression against Iran raises fundamental issues   
   > about the authority and credibility of the United Nations and more   
   > generally about the continued validity of international law and an   
   > international order based on the prohibition of the threat and the use   
   > of force.  Particularly corrosive are the statements by Ursula von der   
   > Leyen and G7 leaders in support of Israel.  Such statements make them   
   > complicit in the crimes.  We are witnessing an open rebellion against   
   > international law and morals – conducted by Israel and supported by   
   > the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany and other   
   > States that have turned their backs on the UN Charter.   
   >   
   > In 2003, the US aggressed Iraq on completely false claims that Saddam   
   > Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Approximately a million lives   
   > were lost.  In total impunity.  Now the US and Israel are using the   
   > same playbook to attack Iran with a view to enforcing regime-change,   
   > but employing evidence-free allegations that Iran is building a   
   > nuclear bomb and has an offensive nuclear weapons program, whose   
   > existence is denied even by the US Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard.   
   >   
   > Israel has no right to “self-defence” against Iran, because Israel is   
   > the aggressor and has grossly violated article 2(4) of the UN Charter   
   > and Article 5 of the Rome Statute. It is Iran that has a right of   
   > self-defence against the unprovoked Israeli aggression. Let us not   
   > forget that Iran was in the middle of diplomatic negotiations as   
   > envisaged in article 2(3) of the UN Charter.  This surprise assault on   
   > Teheran constitutes perfidy and demonstrates a very high level of   
   > cynicism and bad faith.   
   >   
   > Israel is a country already engaged in a vicious genocidal campaign   
   > against the hapless Palestinians. Pursuant to the International Court   
   > of Justice’s Advisory Opinions of 9 July 2004 and 19 July 2024 the   
   > Israeli occupation of Palestine is illegal and Israel is obliged to   
   > withdraw from the Occupied Palestine Territories, recognize the right   
   > of return of refugees and expellees, and must also pay compensation to   
   > the victims.  Evidence presented before the International Court of   
   > Justice in the case South Africa v. Israel on the issue of genocide is   
   > conclusive that genocide is being committed before our eyes. It is the   
   > urgent duty of the international community to stop this genocide and   
   > to stop Israel’s ongoing aggressions against its neighbours. Israel is   
   > out of control.   
   >   
   > On 17 June 2025 the Geneva International Peace Research Institute   
   > issued this call to the United Nations and to all men and women of   
   > good will.   
   >   
   > “By bombing Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu has violated article 2(4) of the   
   > United Nations Charter and article 5 of the Rome Statute. This act of   
   > unprovoked aggression cannot be excused by reference to a non-existent   
   > doctrine of ‘pre-emptive attack’, which George W. Bush had invoked to   
   > attack Iraq, and does not fall within the meaning of Article 51 on the   
   > UN Charter, which allows for self-defence.   
   >   
   > On 14 July 2015, Iran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action   
   > (JCPOA). On 8 May 2018, President Trump announced the withdrawal of   
   > the United States from the Vienna agreement and imposed a series of   
   > maximum sanctions.   
   >   
   > One year after the US withdrawal, suffering from sanctions, Iran   
   > resumed uranium enrichment beyond the limits set by the 2015   
   > agreement.   
   >   
   > Israel possesses between 200 and 300 nuclear warheads outside the   
   > control of the IAEA, to which it denies access to its facilities.   
   > Double-standards cannot be applied without loss of authority and   
   > credibility.   
   >   
   > Once again, Israel, the United States and their supporters are   
   > flouting international law and participating in a conflict that could   
   > lead to nuclear disaster.   
   >   
   > GIPRI calls for a return to international law and the negotiations   
   > that this implies.”   
   >   
   > It is time to acknowledge that the Zionist experiment has failed   
   > because it was an anachronism, a colonialist project from the   
   > beginning. The UN should assume control over Palestine as a UN   
   > Administered territory.   
   >   
   > The international community can no longer tolerate that a country like   
   > Israel violates the UN Charter and international law with impunity.   
   > Netanyahu and his cabinet must be arrested and prosecuted.   
   > The double-game played by the US with Iran has a fall-out with regard   
   > to the Ukraine war.  Considering that the US engaged with Iran in   
   > negotiations and at the same time conspired with Israel to attack   
   > Iran, it is clear that the US can never be trusted.   
   >   
   > Deceiving Iran about negotiating a nuclear deal while preparing a   
   > military attack against Iran is what is called perfidy in   
   > international law.  The lack of good faith by the US is breathtaking.   
   > The same bad faith was displayed by Angela Merkel and François   
   > Hollande in 2014 and 2015 when they took the Russians for a ride with   
   > the Minsk agreements, which Germany and US only saw as a ruse to gain   
   > time.   
   >   
   >   Russia would be reckless if it were to trust any commitments made by   
   > the US or NATO countries — even if written in stone.  Once a liar,   
   > always a liar. US and NATO are engaged in a frontal attack against   
      
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