Israel: PA is in cahoots with Hamas, has no right to threaten us in name of int'l law

[Jefferson23]

The Foreign Ministry's Emmanuel Nachshon calls the Palestinian decision to join International Criminal Court “political, cynical and hypocritical.” *** LOL

“Palestine” has no right to join the International Criminal Court, because there is no Palestinian state in accordance with international law, Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said Wednesday.

Nachshon said that for this reason, the ICC's prosecutor erred earlier this year in accepting the Palestinian request for a preliminary examination into alleged war crimes stemming from Operation Protective Edge over the summer. His words came on the day that the Palestinians formally joined the court.

“The Palestinian Authority government, which has established a partnership with the murderous Hamas terrorist organization that carries out war crimes like those carried out by Islamic State, is the last one that can threaten to file claims in the international court in the Hague,” he said.

Nachshon called the Palestinian decision to join the court “political, cynical and hypocritical.” He said that Palestinian intentions at the court contradict the goals of the court and will lead to a “destructive politicization” that will harm the stature of the body.

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israel-PA-is-in-cahoots-with-Hamas-has-no-right-to-threaten-us-in-name-of-intl-law-395864

[guillaumeb]

1. I hate to disagree with the Foreign Ministry spokesperson

But the UN has actually recognized Palestine as a state. It happened in 2012 actually, so one would think that the Foreign Ministry would have gotten the information by now. To help them out I have included a link below.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-palestine-now-a-state/

Unless this is just typical Israeli conduct of refusing to recognize anything that interferes with the complete theft of Palestinian land and dispossession of the Palestinian people, all the while complaining about the absence of a legitimate negotiating partner.

[oberliner]

2. Maybe you should read your own link

"In the end, the Resolution does not change the Palestinians lives on the ground, and it does not "recognize" Palestine as a state."

[guillaumeb]

3. I did

another link for you to reject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine

and another:
http://www.polgeonow.com/2013/05/who-recognizes-palestine-in-2013.html

You can pick and choose sentence fragments if you wish to make what you feel is a point, but Palestine is recognized by most of the world as a state.

[azurnoir]

4. wait weren't we being told Abbas encouraged the Arabs to stage a military inyetvention in Gaza?

but yet now Abbas and Hamas are in "cahoots"?

http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/03/30/abbas-slammed-by-hamas-and-islamic-jihad-for-urging-arab-intervention-in-gaza/

and DU thread generated by the link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113498516

[Jefferson23]

5. I guess Israeli officials feel Abbas is good at multi-tasking.