Hadassah Laura 📟 (@HadassahLaura)
Peter Frolich (@peterfrolich)
Peter Frolich (@peterfrolich)
IDF: Overnight (Wednesday), IDF soldiers operated in several areas. In the Jayus area, IDF soldiers apprehended four terrorists who operated to advance terrorist activities in the area and planned to execute a terror attack. Additionally, IDF soldiers in the areas of Kifl Haris and Deir Istiya apprehended three terrorists who hurled rocks at a main route. The apprehended suspects were transferred to the ISA for further questioning. The security forces continue operating to thwart terrorism in the area and against anyone who harms or attempts to harm Israeli civilians and the security forces. #israel #gaza #Hamas #IDF #idfheroes
Hadassah Laura 📟 (@HadassahLaura)
RT @ (): Beware anyone claiming any group of people - including Palestinians - maintains an inalienable right to self-determination pursuant to international law. They are either misinformed or they're deliberately attempting to mislead you - or both. Take this tweet from @Heidi__Matthews as an example. There are some sources of int'l law that refer to an inalienable right of self-determination, specifically related to "the Palestinian people." HOWEVER, this rhetoric is taken from texts such as @UN General Assembly Resolution 42/95 from 1987 (pic 1). The thing about UNGA Resolutions is that they DO NOT establish binding int'l law. The General Assembly is an important forum for int'l diplomacy, but resolutions adopted here do not establish int'l law...yet UNGA resolutions are the primary source typically cited by those claiming any group of people - particularly Palestinians - have an inalienable right of self-determination. Those advancing this claim are either misinformed or being deliberately misleading - or both. Now, there IS a binding source of int'l law that DOES refer to the principle of self-determination of peoples. That reference comes from art. 1(2) of the UN Charter (pic 2). HOWEVER, this addresses friendly relations AMONG NATIONS - and the Charter applies, by definition, among MEMBER STATES to begin with. This means, at a minimum, MEMBER STATES possess a right of self-determination on behalf of their respective populations. At the national level, this right is also reflected in art. 2(4) of the UN Charter, which reflects the obligation among MEMBER STATES to refrain from threat or use of force against territorial integrity & political independence of OTHER STATES (not pictured). So MEMBER STATES - like @Israel - have an inherent right of self-determination, but not individual groups of people. Beyond doctrinal int'l law, this also just makes sense intuitively. Granting an inalienable right of self-determination to any group who claims it would immediately unravel the existing structure of national sovereignty among states. Groups as disparate as he Islamic State, Parti Québécois in Canada, and "sovereign citizens" the world over would all have the inalienable right to ignore existing governance structures in the name of "self-determination." Claims of individual or group "self-determination" are a hoax. They always have been. In the Palestinian context specifically, these claims today ignore (at least) one immensely inconvenient truth: Palestinians HAVE been exercising "self-determination" since at least 2005 when 🇮🇱 disengaged from 🇵🇸 territories. UNGA Resolutions such as 42/95 (1987) emphasizing a supposed inalienable right to self-determination are rooted in a time when 🇮🇱 maintained direct governance & control of 🇵🇸 territories. The claim that Palestinians were "under foreign and colonial domination" back then was already tenuous & contestable. After Disengagement in 2005, though, this claim is now completely detached from reality. As messaging from the Quartet emphasized at the time, the expectation in 2005 was for Palestinians to "end all violence and terror" and "dismantle terrorist capabilities and infrastructure" (pics 3 & 4). Instead, the "resistance" known as #Hamas diverted billions of $$ from international aid through agencies such as @UNRWA to expand "terrorist capabilities and infrastructure." And the end result, so far, was one of the most horrific atrocities committed in living memory on Oct 7 - followed by a large-scale armed conflict Hamas deliberately instigated by committing these atrocities - that has since devastated #Gaza. This IS how Palestinians have exercised the supposedly inalienable right to self-determination. Trump's peace plan demands a new approach IN LIGHT OF the way 🇵🇸 has exercised the principle of self-determination. Claims that this is somehow a violation of int'l law are either misinformed or misleading - or both. I'll leave it to you to decide which this QTd post is.
