Francis A. Boyle: The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide

Against the Palestinians: In direct reaction to Israel provoking the Al Aqsa Intifada, on October 19, 2000, the then United Nations Human Rights Commission condemned Israel for inflicting war crimes and crimes against humanity upon the Palestinian people, some of whom are Christians, but most of whom are Muslims. This Special Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights, adopted the Resolution set forth in UN Document E/CN.4/S-5L. 2/Rev.1, Condemning the provocative visit to Al Haram Al Shariff on 28 September 2000 by Ariel Sharon, the Likud party leader, which triggered the tragic events, that followed in occupied East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Palestinian territories, resulting in a high number of deaths and injuries among Palestinian civilians. The UN Human Rights Commission said it was gravely concerned about several different types of atrocities inflicted by Israel upon the Palestinian civilians. The UN Human Rights Commission said it was gravely concerned about several different types of atrocities inflicted by Israel upon the Palestinian people, which it denominated war crimes, flagrant violations of international humanitarian law, and crimes against humanity. In operative paragraph 1 of its 19 October 2000 Resolution, the UN Human Rights Commission then: Strongly condemns the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force, in violation of international humanitarian law by the Israeli occupying Power against innocent and unarmed Palestinian civilians, including many children, in the occupied territories, which constitutes a war crime, and a crime against humanity. In paragraph 5 of its 19 October 2000 Resolution, the UN Human Rights Commission Also affirms that the deliberate and systematic killing of civilians and children, by the Israeli occupying authorities constitutes a flagrant and grave violation of the right to life, and also constitutes a crime against humanity. Article 68 of the United Nations Charter had expressly required the UN's Economic and Social Council to set up this UN Commission for the promotion of human rights. This was its UN Charter mandated job. The reader has a general idea of what a war crime is, so I am not going to elaborate upon that term here, but there are different degrees of heinousness for war crimes. In particular are the more serious war crimes denominated grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Since the outbreak of the first Intifada in 1987, the world has seen those heinous war crimes inflicted every day by Israel, against the Palestinian people living in occupied Palestine: including willful killing of Palestinians by the Israeli army, and by Israels criminal paramilitary terrorist settlers.