International Law Is Now Suspended, if Not Eliminated.
PART ONE: The essence of international law is progressive.
A law cannot exist if there are individuals or organizations that fall within its scope but which stand “above the law” — can’t be prosecuted no matter how flagrantly they violate it. EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW IS THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF LAW, and if any exceptions can be allowed, those are ONLY the ones that are stated IN the law as being NOT within its scope — and, thus, the fundamental principle of law is that a law exists ONLY if all individuals or organizations that fall within its scope are subject to investigation and prosecution if they violate it. Otherwise, it’s NOT a “law.” To call it a law is false. The United States Government and its colonies such as Israel can’t be prosecuted for violating international law no matter how flagrantly they violate it. Consequently, international law no longer exists. What DOES exist, then? The traditional ethic does: Might makes right.
For example: Whatever happened to the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ’s) so-called ‘investigation’ by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into South Africa’s detailed 99-page fully documented case that Israel’s leaders are committing ethnic cleansing if not genocide in Gaza? The CIA-edited and written Wikipedia (which blacklists (blocks from linking to) sites that aren’t CIA-approved) article “South Africa’s genocide case against Israel” asserts that
On 5 April 2024, the court set the schedule for comprehensive submissions of legal opinions by South Africa and Israel. The time limit for the South African memorial was set to be 28 October 2024, and for the Israeli response 28 July 2025.[122] South Africa filed its memorial on 28 October 2024.[123][124][125] In accordance with the ICJ’s rules, the memorial is not public. It contains over 750 pages of text and over 4,000 pages of exhibits and annexes.
Consequently, in this legal case, presented by South Africa, which was accepted by the ICJ (International Court of Justice) on 29 December 2023, the jurists will commence their consideration of Israel’s defense, starting on 28 July this year, which might be already after the crime (whatever it might be) has been completed.
On page 93 of the 99-page pdf (or p. 184 of the 194-page document) of the South African filing of the case, is the following:
D. The Risk of Irreparable Prejudice and Urgency
136. The Court “has the power to indicate provisional measures when irreparable prejudice could be caused to rights which are the subject of judicial proceedings or when the alleged disregard of such rights may entail irreparable consequences”557. In particular, the Court has the power to indicate provisional measures “if there is urgency, in the sense that there is a real and imminent risk that irreparable prejudice will be caused before the Court gives its final decision”558. As the Court recently confirmed, “[t]he condition of urgency is met when the acts susceptible of causing irreparable prejudice can ‘occur at any moment’ before the Court makes a final decision on the case”559.
137. For the purposes of its decision on a request for the indication of provisional measures in a case involving allegations of violations of the Genocide Convention, “[t]he Court is not called upon . . . to establish the existence of breaches of the Genocide Convention, but to determine whether the circumstances require the indication of provisional measures for the protection of rights under this instrument”560, as “found to be plausible”561. As held by the Court, this does not require it to “make definitive findings
That prior Court expressed its concern that “there is real and imminent risk that irreparable prejudice” meaning in this case genocide and-or mere ethnic cleansing “will be caused (by Israeli troops armed and guided by American weapons and satellite intelligence, but note here that ONLY Israel and NOT the U.S. is being ‘investigated’ by this Court; so, immediately — because of this inequality before the law — this is not a court of law, but of prejudice in favor of Joe Biden etc.; so, this is already a quasi-court involved with quasi-law) “before the Court gives its final decision,” which will therefore settle nothing but instead create interminable debate because that “decision” will be received as propaganda instead of as anything worthy of respect.
That exemplifies the actual non-existence of international law.
We still live in a Might-makes-right world, NOT (not yet, at least) an international-law world. Why is this?
PART TWO: The source of people’s ethics is an allegedly holy inerrant Scripture.
Every religion is based upon an allegedly holy inerrant Scripture, which contains the unchangeable laws or “commandments” of some anthropomorphized Deity or Almighty ‘God’, such that the “good” is defined as serving that ‘God’ — adhering to its commandments — not serving regular people (THEREFORE: Democracy is impossible in ANY nation whose Government, including its Constitution, recognizes some religion’s “Holy Scripture” as being the SUPREME law in that land — it’s a theocracy instead of a democracy; no other document, than that Scripture, can actually BE its Constitution, because that function, as being the basis for the nation’s laws, has already been ceeded to that Scripture).
Furthermore: unlike any Constitution in any democratic country, any such ‘holy Scripture’ is presumed to be inerrant and therefore cannot even possibly be amended — no provision in it says how its basic laws (the Constitution) may become changed; and, so, though every democratic Constitution allows for Amendments, NO ‘holy Scripture’ can allow any, at all.
What is the DEFINING attribute of “God”? Is it “good”ness? In numerous instances, ‘holy Scripture’ says “God” ordered the extermination of an entire category of people — such as Caananites, and such as homosexuals. No, certainly, the defining attribute isn’t “goodness.” Is it instead power — the idea that the Deity is “The Almighty” — the very personification of power? Obviously yes, because ‘God’ is traditionally described as having created the universe — a creation-story is normally included in any ‘holy Scripture’. So: virtually all religions, which is to say every organized faith-based community, worships POWER: the principle that “Might makes right” is literally at its very foundation. Consequently: if EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW IS THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF LAW, then under any RELIGIOUS law, INEQUALITY before the law is the very foundation-stone of law; and, so, religious law is the exact opposite of “law” in the sense of any democracy. Not only is that not “natural law” (it cannot be accepted as constituting “law” in, say, physics, or biology — not in any of the sciences), but it is FORCED “law,” imposed in order to serve the deity, instead of to serve the public. So, it is entirely artificial: it is, indeed, fraudulent.
Though fraudulent, it is the way human society still and currently IS.
On page 72 of the pdf (p. 142 of the document) of South Africa’s 99-page submission against Israel, appears this:
On 28 October 2023, as Israeli forces prepared their land invasion of Gaza, the Prime Minister [Netanyahu] invoked the Biblical story of the total destruction of Amalek by the Israelites, stating: “you must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember”446. The Prime Minister referred again to Amalek in the letter sent on 3 November 2023 to Israeli soldiers and officers447. The relevant biblical passage [1 Samuel 15:3] reads as follows: “Now go, attack Amalek, and proscribe all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.”448.
In other words: their ‘God’ has commanded them to exterminate the Palestinians. This commandment is stated not only in 1 Samuel, which isn’t within their allegedly inerrant and holiest of all Scripture, the first five books of the Bible, which is in every synagogue and is called the Torah, but it is likewise commanded several times ALSO inside the Torah itself, such as:
Here are some of those specific biblical passages that ARE in the Torah (and therefore even MORE binding upon Jews than is 1 Samuel):
Genesis 15:18-21
“On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt [the Nile] to the great river, the Euphrates, including the lands of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amoriotes, the Caananites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.’”
Deuteronomy 7:1-2
“You must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance: the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Caananites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. You must put them all to death.”
Deuteronomy 7:16
“Destroy every nation that the Lord your God places in your power, and do not show them any mercy.”
Deuteronomy 20:16-18
“When you capture cities in the land he Lord your God is giving you, kill everyone. Completely destroy all the people: the Hittites, the Amorites, the Caananites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, as the Lord has ordered you
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