Israel vows to continue building West Bank barrier

[Herschel]

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has vowed to finish the controversial West Bank security barrier regardless of the opinion of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1052617.htm

Well said. Israel must place her security above accomadating a misguided notion of international law. Ultimately, the court cannot enforce it's will, therefore it's opinion means little.

[forgethell]

1. Without an enforcement mechanism,

there is no law, international, or otherwise. This is only one of the many reasons the UN, the World Court, and most other international agreements are completely useless, if not actually harmfu.

If the US is unwilling to enforce the will of the UN, then what is the UN but a debating society? If Israel does not obey the decision of the Court, why bother to make one? If the decision went against the Palestinians (I'm not holding my breath, here), would they stop their assaults against Israel, the fence, and the USA? Not hardly.

The world is full of hypocrisy, and liberals, leftists, and internationalists are tied neck-and-neck with the corporatists, conservatives, and fundies in many, many cases.

[Jim Sagle]

2. And a good thing, too. The court has a severe case of up-is-downism.

[ex_jew]

3. Thumbing one's nose at international institutions

is unlikely to pay dividends in the future. Now there isn't even Saddam Hussein to share the honor as most contemptuous toward world opinion. Israel goes it alone as THE rogue state (excepting of course its sugar daddy, the US). The Israeli habit of deciding that any and all principles of correct behavior do not apply to it becomes stronger every day.

Israel and the US would be wise to remember that strident demands for security when one's own actions make others less secure are not very attractive. In our inter-dependent world, the hand you bite today may not feed you tomorrow, leaving you all alone in a sea of hostility.

[Comadreja]

4. Israeli Plans

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, 'What is to be done with the Palestinian population; Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'? Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979; Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet.