How I see it.
A gang of men break into a house, the owner of the house goes at the intruders with whatever comes to hand, a broom handle maybe or a kitchen knife, and beats the fuck out of the intruders. The intruders are armed and start shooting, killing the owner and injuring other memebers of the household.
Whose side are you on?
For a more informed take on the situation, Craig Murray…
Because the incident took place on the high seas does not mean however that international law is the only applicable law. The Law of the Sea is quite plain that, when an incident takes place
on a ship on the high seas (outside anybody’s territorial waters) the applicable law is that of the flag state of the ship on which the incident occurred. In legal terms, the Turkish ship was Turkish territory.There are therefore two clear legal possibilities.
Possibility one is that the Israeli commandos were acting on behalf of the government of Israel in killing the activists on the ships. In that case Israel is in a position of war with Turkey, and the act falls under international jurisdiction as a war crime.
Possibility two is that, if the killings were not authorised Israeli military action, they were acts of murder under Turkish jurisdiction. If Israel does not consider itself in a position of war with Turkey, then it must hand over the commandos involved for trial in Turkey under Turkish law.
In brief, if Israel and Turkey are not at war, then it is Turkish law which is applicable to what happened on the ship. It is for Turkey, not Israel, to carry out any inquiry or investigation into events and to initiate any prosecutions. Israel is obliged to hand over indicted personnel for prosecution.
Perhaps, at last, this is the act that pushes the rest of the world and the US esp. to challenge Israel on how it carries itself on a global stage.
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Israels’ going to get a load of shit for this for a long while, but it won’t change anything.
It is about time Israel is treated as the pariah state it should, though.
Well I hope it does change things because it does make me think what actually has to occur for the rest of the world to turn its back on Israel and to force it into a sea-change in the way it carries itself.
Isolation must be a next step, as fraught with danger as it is for cries of anti-Semitism.
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