I'm not really obsessed with issues related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It just seems that way lately I guess, because in the past few weeks and especially since Arafat died, so much good stuff has been out in pixels on the subject. As an aside, it occurred to me for the first time the other day that a reader of this blog who didn't know me (is there such an animal?) might assume that I'm Jewish, which I'm not. A Zionist, yes. So, we got that cleared up...
Anyway, I just got done reading Andrew C. McCarthy's latest piece in my hard copy Commentary Magazine, in which he legally and logically shreds the July 2004 finding of the United Nations' International Court of Justice (ICJ) that "the security barrier being constructed by Israel to shield its citizens from relentless terrorist assault is an affront to international law." It was excellent, so I was glad to find it available online (at least for a while).
McCarthy show how the ICJ contorts its charter to hear the case in the first place, and then alternately defines the Palestinians as "a state" and "not a state" in order to comport with its various legal arguments. Consistent with the U.N. track record of systemic anti-Semitism, the ICJ finds a way, because there is a will.
Posted by dan at November 19, 2004 01:26 AM