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Berlusconi the Censor
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Nuclear
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For What Do We Fight?
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Kashmir
on the Brink
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What is Antisemitism?
June 4, 2002
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Bono the Useful Idiot
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Kashmir:
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The Future Wellstone Deserves
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Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan
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The Caterpillar
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From FDR to Mister "W.":
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Under the
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Bernard Weiner
Bush 9/11 Scandal for Dummies
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The
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Gavin Keeney
Bush and Mies van der Rohe:
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Sharon's
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Crumpling the Constitution
May 31, 2002
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Land Grabs and Occupation:
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Russian
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May 30, 2002
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Sex Among the Sacred
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Corporate
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Are You a Journalist
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and the War on Terror
May 29, 2002
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June 6, 2002
Take Sharon
to The Hague
Prosecute Israeli War Crimes
at Jenin
by
Francis A. Boyle
The Israeli government inflicted war crimes, grave
breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, and a Crime
against Humanity against the inhabitants of Jenin. The United
Nations must prosecute these international crimes for the exact
same reasons that it created the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda. Both of these ad hoc international criminal tribunals
were established by the United Nations Security Council with
the approval of the United States government, a Permanent Member
thereof with a veto power. But it has already been publicly reported
that the Bush Jr. administration intervened with U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan to head off an investigation of Jenin as authorized
by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1405 (19 April 2002).
Despite such unconscionable but continual
U.S. obstructionism at the Security Council when it comes to
protecting the basic human rights of the Palestinian People,
the U.N. General Assembly has concurrent jurisdiction under the
United Nations Charter to investigate and prosecute Israeli government
officials - both civilian and military - for the international
crimes that they have ordered, committed, condoned, and approved
at Jenin and elsewhere in Palestine. We must pressure the  member states of the U.N. General Assembly
to found an International Criminal Tribunal for Palestine (ICTP)
in order to prosecute Israeli war criminals, both military and
civilian, including and especially Israeli political leaders
such as Sharon. The U.N. General Assembly can set up this ICTP
by a majority vote pursuant to its powers to establish "subsidiary
organs" under U.N. Charter Article 22. This International
Criminal Tribunal for Palestine should be organized by the U.N.
General Assembly along the same lines as the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which deals with international
armed conflicts.
In this regard, back in 1993 as the Lawyer
for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I sued the rump Yugoslavia
for committing genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes,
and grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention before the
International Court of Justice in the Hague. I also did the very
best I could to personally implicate Slobodan Milosevic and his
henchmen for ordering and committing these international crimes
against the Bosnians. At the time I never realistically expected
that less than nine years later Milosevic himself and his henchmen
would be on trial in The Hague for committing these heinous international
crimes against the Bosnians.
For similar reasons, Sharon and his henchmen
must also stand on trial in The Hague for perpetrating the exact
same types of international crimes against the Palestinian People
at Jenin and elsewhere in Palestine. It is up to us to bring
Sharon and his henchmen to Justice in The Hague. Milosevic and
Sharon will get along quite well with each other in The Hague
because they have so much in common to talk about: war crimes,
crimes against humanity, and genocide.
Francis A. Boyle,
Professor of Law, University of Illinois, is author of Foundations
of World Order, Duke University Press, and The
Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Clarity Press. He
can be reached at: FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU
(C) Copyright 2002 by Francis A. Boyle.
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