Westerners believe in international law but there’s really no such thing

Westerners have allowed false definitions of things to be foisted upon us by shysters in high places, and it’s our fault. We don’t question enough. We don't even know how.

Example of Western reverence for the institution of international law is given below. What the author says is on target and worth reading, but we need to keep in mind that he is writing within the Western framework (box), which proceeds from a set of assumptions that we automatically accept as Gospel but without rigorous intellectual justification. I call this mental strait jacket West-think, and I believe only one in several million is capable of thinking outside the West box because so far, no one has initiated the procedure needed to free ourselves from it. My commentary that follows in intended as a first step in helping the Western reader get beyond West-think and into a higher level of cognitive freedom of movement that is absolutely necessary to solve the problems facing the West. All of our thus far insoluble problems are unsolved thus far because we had allowed our minds to be trapped by false definitions of words and terms. Examples are the “international law” cited above, and things like “democracy,” freedom, or Russia, China, Iran, etc, which automatically carry the connotation of “enemy” but without any rigorous defensible rationale. This false set of definitions is taking the human race ever closer to nuclear Armageddon and we rarely ask ourselves why:

The idea Israel is above international law can no longer be tolerated

The credibility of the International Court of Justice is at stake

12 Jan 2024

Yesterday I watched the Irish lawyer for South Africa making the case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, and as she described “a crisis of humanity, a living hell, a bloodbath, a situation of utter deepening and unmatched horror where an entire population is besieged, denied access to the essentials for survival on a massive scale,” one thought kept occurring to me: if the court does not find against Israel in this case then international law has no credibility.

The problem with this analysis is that the writer believes a Western myth, namely, that there is a unicorn named “international law.”

Actually, while Westerners often mouth those words, what we call “international law” is nothing more nor less than US “rules-based order,” a meaningless construct hiding behind those meaningless words. It’s not international because it is based on a non-free US-enforced consensus. It’s a lot like “Christian Zionism,” which is in fact a variety of Satanism hiding behind the name of Christ. People believe in it because it is the most prevalent form of “Christianity” in the so-called church today.

It's also analogous to what we erroneously call the “United” Nations. The reason we are faced with the criminal enterprise called “Israel” is that the US unfairly applied its ill-gotten financial, political and military power on the nations of the world, strongarming them into a false consensus, ie, accepting in the Middle East, among Islamic nations, a new illegitimate “state” that these Islamic states feared and that had been formed by 3 European Jewish terrorist organizations, the Irgun, the Haganah and the Stern Gang, which went in with weapons – firearms, hand grenades and others, that the British Mandate ONLY allowed to Jews, NOT to the legacy inhabitants, the Arabs and Christians who had lived there for centuries. It was a recipe for a disaster, ie, the Nakba in Arabic. And we are paying for that disaster today like never before.

The video linked here

is a concise and accurate history of the Nakba, ie, the founding of Israel.

If you will indulge me today I would like to repeat what I wrote yesterday about this so-called “International” Court of Justice.

It’s hard to predict how the ICJ will rule on the Israeli genocide.

The whole world knows full well that Israel is committing genocide in Palestine, but the US denies it, of course.

Blinken has said, lying through his teeth, that the S. African case against Israel is “without merit,” but out of the other side of his mouth, he is telling Israel it needs to kill fewer civilians, but without setting a number. I’d like to ask Blinken how many innocent civilians may Israel murder before we are allowed to call it genocide. And hence, how many innocent people need to be murdered in cold blood before a case of genocide before the ICJ would have merit.

What S. Africa fails to understand is that the ICJ is a lackey of the Russia-hating US Empire, ruled from Washington by a small group of criminally insane men and women, the Neocons, who eat, sleep and breathe the dream of Russia’s destruction. Uncle Tom Lloyd Austin, their lackey, as secretary of “defense,” said it out loud: we seek to weaken Russia (but in the back of his mind, by “weaken” he meant destroy).

This kangaroo court decided to go after Putin to please the Russia hating Neocons in Washington and their clones in Europe, so they invented the preposterous charge of “kidnapping” based on the fact that Russian officials saved war orphans, for example, in Mariupol, from the Ukrainian Nazis – who are suspected of organ harvesting – by sending them to Russia.

What the ICJ Nazi sympathizers failed to acknowledge is that it was not kidnapping because Mariupol is now officially part of Russian territory and will never again belong to Ukraine, which committed war crimes against Russian speakers in territories that once officially were recognized by the Nazi-sympathetic West as belonging to Ukraine. Using the US’ own logic of the R2P – responsibility to protect – the Russians assumed this responsibility and did indeed protect these orphans from imminent danger of being killed for their organs or at least being harassed for being Russian speakers.

But the ICJ, being a lackey of the US, ruled, purely for political reasons, that Putin was guilty of kidnapping. In turn, Russia issued an arrest warrant for false arrest for the ICJ judge who “convicted” Putin of kidnapping.

But in yesterday’s commentary, I neglected to tell another part that the ICJ ignored, and that is, that while it could somehow find Putin “guilty” of kidnapping, it did not deign to see that the Ukrainian side was guilty of something infinitely worse than mere kidnapping – and that was the fact that, from 2014 on, when the Obama regime took over the reins of power in Kiev, for 8 full years before Putin finally lost his patience and invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian forces were firing artillery rounds into Donetsk and environs and indiscriminately killing the Russian speakers of Donbass, who in the eyes of the psychopathic Neocons, were inferior beings (Untermenschen, in Third Reich terms), who need to be eliminated from the face of the earth. In other words, genocide.

No Western mainstream journalists were allowed to enter Donbass to witness the killing, with an estimated total of 14,000 victims. This censorship was the will of the Neocons and their proxies in the Ukrainian forces, the latter having been imbued since youth with the Nazi ideology of Stepan Bandera, the Hitler collaborator who killed over 100 K Jews and Poles in Western Ukraine. These Banderites (who officially commemorate Bandera’s birthday) were the perfect partners for the Neocons, whose ideology matched that of the Ukrainian Nazis. They were made for each other, for one of the main pillars of Hitler’s Nazism was an irrational Russophobia, a fear and hatred of Russia and all things Russian.

Putin’s own parents survived the siege of Leningrad and he knew that history and knew that the only adequate response to any unfriendly encounter with Nazis was inevitably war, which he had tried in vain to avoid. Thus, the US Neocons had managed to revisit the nightmare of WW II on Russia! Intentionally!

Where was the ICJ when 14,000 innocents were being slaughtered? If it is wrong to kidnap children, what about killing them?

Thus, we can see that the ICJ will almost certainly try to come down on the side of the criminal occupying entity whose genocidal efforts are fully supported by the US empire, which is just as criminal as the entity. And this empire is the owner of the ICJ! Thus, it is NOT an international court, it is a US court hiding behind a false identifier.

The problem the ICJ faces today is that the world now knows the truth about the US-Israeli genocide and the ICJ knows it can’t just blithely dismiss the mountain of evidence. Unlike in the past, even though most msm coverage is still either missing or suppressed, social media is now replete with videos, photos and news coverage of Israel’s crimes, and it will be almost impossible to overlook the daily atrocities and genocidal air strikes on Gaza and now even on the West Bank, where the excuse of hunting down Hamas is hard to defend.

The most the ICJ can likely do to comply with the US’ desires to maintain Israeli impunity is to issue harsh-sounding warnings but avoid any coercive resolutions that would force Israel to behave like a civilized nation and spare the lives of the Palestinian victims of apartheid, genocide and related crimes against humanity.

If the ICJ’s decision winds up sounding like the double-talk of the Biden team, it should not surprise anyone.

We can only hope that the world will not give the ICJ enough wiggle room to squirm out of doing its duty and imposing real, binding restrictions.

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https://overclockers.ru/blog/Zelikman/show/131593/Vecherom-12-yanvarya-rossijskie-vojska-nanesli-raketnye-udary-po-voennoj-infrastrukture-Ukrainy

On the evening of January 12, Russian troops launched missile attacks on the military infrastructure of Ukraine

Warehouses with weapons and ammunition, deployment points of Ukrainian troops, air defense systems and military industrial facilities were hit

On the evening of January 12, in the city of Konstantinovka, located on the occupied territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, military facilities became the target of missile attacks carried out by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Information about what happened was confirmed by both Russian war correspondents and Ukrainian sources.

According to the data transmitted, powerful explosions were heard in the city. Russian armed forces hit an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Konstantinovka. After the devastating strike, the warehouses caught fire, after which a secondary detonation of the ammunition stored in them occurred.

In addition to the attack on Konstantinovka, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out attacks on other military installations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces located on the territory of Kherson, also controlled by Ukrainian troops.

An air raid alert was declared in several Ukrainian regions, including Kyiv, Kirovograd, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkov, Chernihiv and Cherkassy. The media are also reporting that Russian missiles are flying towards Volchansk, located in the Kharkov oblast. There is no word on the veracity of these reports, but the government in Kyiv prefers not to report the consequences of attacks on its military infrastructure, be it missile attacks or the use of drones.

The Armed Forces continue striking military targets on Ukrainian territory, as well as in the occupied zones of Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye oblasts. Currently, the main strikes are falling on military-industrial complex facilities, air defense systems, ammunition depots, as well as places where Ukrainian military personnel and foreign mercenaries are located.

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Our thanks to JaS for this (referring to the news of the massive strike against the Houthis in Yemen)

This means that the US is at war with Ansarallah. Which is what the Houthis want -- because now the Red Sea is a war zone and no ship insurance there is valid any more.

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Our thanks to JS for this:

To:DON HANK

Thu 1/11/2024 2:59 PM

RE: In the first six weeks of the Israel-Gaza conflict, major U.S. newspapers disproportionately emphasized Israeli deaths; used emotive language to describe the killings of Israelis, but not Palestinians; and offered lopsided coverage of antisemitic acts in the U.S., while largely ignoring anti-Muslim racism in the wake of October 7.

-- Coverage of Gaza War in NYTimes & other major papers heavily favored Israel, analysis shows

This is not a new phenomenon. Please see:

Our hypothesis is that worthy victims will be featured prominently and dramatically, that they will be humanized, and that their victimization will receive the detail and context in story construction that will generate reader interest and sympathetic emotion. In contrast, unworthy victims will merit only slight detail, minimal humanization, and little context that will excite and enrage.

-- Edward Herman & Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, 1988. A Propaganda Model