Jul. 19th, 2024

ICJ issued an advisory opinion today which ruled that "State of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful" amongst a few more rulings. It only took 57 years to get here. Let's hope the redress and reparations don't take another 50+ years.

The interesting bits to me are the opinions and votes on pages 78-79 (included below):
* Romanian judge (Bogdan Aurescu) and the French-Jewish judge (Ronny Abraham) voted against in 5 of 9 decisions, but not as much as
* Ugandan judge Julia Sebutinde who voted against 8 out of 9. The only other dissenter of the 14 judges was
* Slovakian judge Peter Tomka who voted against 2 of the 9 decisions.
* The other judges voted in favor of all 9 decisions (i.e. USA, China, India, Germany, Australia, Japan, South Africa, Lebanon, Somalia, Brazil, Mexico). The Belgian judge Gautier did not vote.

THE COURT,
(1) Unanimously, Finds that it has jurisdiction to give the advisory opinion requested;
(2) By fourteen votes to one, Decides to comply with the request for an advisory opinion;
IN FAVOUR: President Salam; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant, Gómez Robledo, Cleveland, Aurescu, Tladi;
AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde;
(3) By eleven votes to four, Is of the opinion that the State of Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful;
IN FAVOUR: President Salam; Judges Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant, Gómez Robledo, Cleveland, Tladi;
AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Aurescu;
(4) By eleven votes to four, Is of the opinion that the State of Israel is under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible;
IN FAVOUR: President Salam; Judges Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant, Gómez Robledo, Cleveland, Tladi;
AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Aurescu;
(5) By fourteen votes to one, Is of the opinion that the State of Israel is under an obligation to cease immediately all new settlement activities, and to evacuate all settlers from the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
IN FAVOUR: President Salam; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant, Gómez Robledo, Cleveland, Aurescu, Tladi;
AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde;
(6) By fourteen votes to one, Is of the opinion that the State of Israel has the obligation to make reparation for the damage caused to all the natural or legal persons concerned in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
IN FAVOUR: President Salam; Judges Tomka, Abraham, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant, Gómez Robledo, Cleveland, Aurescu, Tladi;
AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde;
(7) By twelve votes to three, Is of the opinion that all States are under an obligation not to recognize as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by the continued presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
IN FAVOUR: President Salam; Judges Tomka, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant, Gómez Robledo, Cleveland, Tladi;
AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde; Judges Abraham, Aurescu;
(8) By twelve votes to three, Is of the opinion that international organizations, including the United Nations, are under an obligation not to recognize as legal the situation arising from the unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;
IN FAVOUR: President Salam; Judges Tomka, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant, Gómez Robledo, Cleveland, Tladi;
AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde; Judges Abraham, Aurescu;
(9) By twelve votes to three, Is of the opinion that the United Nations, and especially the General Assembly, which requested this opinion, and the Security Council, should consider the precise modalities and further action required to bring to an end as rapidly as possible the unlawful presence of the State of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
IN FAVOUR: President Salam; Judges Tomka, Yusuf, Xue, Bhandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brant, Gómez Robledo, Cleveland, Tladi;
AGAINST: Vice-President Sebutinde; Judges Abraham, Aurescu.

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