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Trump Withdraws the US from Protocol to Vienna Convention over Jerusalem, Starts Delivery of $38 Billion Military Package to Israel, Pledged by Obama

 October 5, 2018 

Editor's Note:

While brutal force has been used to create Zionist Israel and sustain it thus far, Zionist claims to Palestine are false. Actually, from the five thousand years of known written history, there has been a continuous Palestinian-Canaanite presence in the Holy Land. Despite the Zionist false claims, the ancient Israelites ruled part of the land for only 85 years (during the reign of David, Solomon, and Solomon's son).

 After that, the Egyptians conquered Palestine-Canaan in 925 BC, followed by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, before the Arab Muslim rule, starting from 636 AD.

By the Time Jesus started his mission, the three population groups of Canaanites, Palestinians, and Israelites were melted together in religion and language. Most of them became Christians when Constantine converted in 313 AD. Then, most of them became Muslims in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.

So, Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews are the ones who have the right to claim descent from ancient Israelites, Palestinians, and Canaanites, not Zionists from other continents.

The following news stories are just examples of the Israeli occupation government violations of Palestinian human rights, on daily basis.

More detailed news stories can be found at the following sources: https://english.palinfo.com/, http://imemc.org/, https://paltoday.ps/ar/

 

US military aid to Israel, to maintain its occupation of Palestine, so-called iron-dome missile, file, October 5, 2018 imemc

 

Historic US Military Aid Package to Israel Goes into Effect

October 3, 2018 5:47 PM IMEMC News & Agencies

The Israeli occupation government prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday, has welcomed a historic $38 billion in US military aid package, negotiated by the previous US administration. Two years after President Barack Obama and the Israeli Prime Minister signed a Memorandum of Understanding, the 10-year military funding deal went into effect on Monday, with the start of the new fiscal year. Netanyahu welcomed the deal as the means to tackle the threat from the Islamic Republic, after the State Department noted that the package is aimed to protect Israel against “all potential regional adversaries,” but, foremost, from the “Iranian regime’s sponsorship of terrorist groups.”

“I thank the American administration and the Congress for their commitment to Israel and American aid money in the coming decade,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, yesterday.

“Israel and the world face complex security challenges, first and foremost Iranian aggression. The unreserved support of the United States for Israel’s right to defend itself is one of the pillars of the strong relationship between the two countries,” he added.

Under the terms of the deal, outlined in the US-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018, Israel will receive an annual funding of $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing and $500 million for cooperative programs for “missile defense.” Specifically, the US has authorized the transfer of precision-guided munitions from reserve stocks, which are “necessary for Israel to counter the threat of rockets in a timely fashion.” The act also expands a stockpile of weapons the US stores in Israel, which the country may access in wartime.

US Withdraws from Protocol to Vienna Convention over Jerusalem

October 4, 2018 7:33 PM IMEMC News & Agencies

US President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the optional protocol and dispute resolution to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, in connection to a case challenging the transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, US national security adviser John Bolton said, Wednesday.

“This is in connection with a case brought by the so-called state of Palestine, naming the United States as the defendant, challenging our move of our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” Bolton said, , according to the PNN..

“I would like to stress that the United States remains a party to the Vienna Basic Treaty on Diplomatic Relations and we expect all parties to respect their international obligations under the Treaty.”

In December, US President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and ordered the transfer of his country’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and opened the new embassy in May.

The Palestinian ministry of Foreign Affairs commented by saying the announcement reaffirms the administration’s disdain towards international law and the rules-based international order.

“This administration is willfully disrupting and undermining the international order because of its blind support to Israel’s illegal colonial policies, thus advancing this hostile agenda at the expense of global cooperation and protecting the standing and influence of international norms,” the ministry said in a statement.

“The State of Palestine exercised its right to defend itself through legal means by resorting to the International Court of Justice on the issue of the illegal US embassy move to our capital, Jerusalem,” statement added.

“This step was based on the compulsory jurisdiction of Court, as stipulated in Article I of the Additional Protocol. The decision of the US administration to pull out of the Additional Protocol reaffirms its rejection of accountability and determination to be above the law, using false pretexts of politicization and recklessly attacking the credibility the world’s most prestigious courts. This move also reconfirms worldwide fears about its hostile and isolationist attitude, which threaten the international order with yet more disruption.”

The Palestinian leadership said it will continue to defend our people’s rights against all threats posed by Israel’s illegal colonial policies and States that support and adopt them.

“We will do so in line with international law and using available international conflict-resolution mechanisms. Our actions are anchored in our commitment to and respect for international law and existing international mechanisms.  It is also based on our conviction that no one person or country is above the law and that accountability is a cornerstone of ensuring and protecting international peace and security. It is now rather obvious that the current US administration believes it is above the law and beyond the reach of accountability. This reckless attitude is a challenge to the international order; one that Palestine and the rest of the international community must face with clarity of vision and determination,” it concluded.

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