UN as the Opium of Nations: Making sense of ICJ’s Superfluous ruling on Israeli Occupation of Palestinian Territories

On the 19th July 2024, the ICJ issued a ruling that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal, amounts to annexation, and that Israel is liable to pay reparations; a just ruling that will not be implemented. It is in the context of the UN trying to numb the world’s majority to the destruction meted on Palestinians, where over 38000 (here) have been killed, and a million face diseases and starvation, that the ICJ made its ruling for a case that begun in 2022, long before October 7th 2023, when the current war started.

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The UN has been made into the Opium of Nations, numbing the world’s majority to ignore the great violations of the materialistic and maniacal Western minority willing to violently eliminate people that stand in the way of their material gains. The UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ), sometimes styled as the “world court” was at it again this July 2024, issuing an advisory opinion that Israel should end its occupation of Palestinian territories, and that the Jewish state was liable for paying reparations for occupying territories over the past 57 years (here). The Guardian (here) uncritically reported that the ruling will add pressure to Israel to end the ongoing war in Gaza, which started long after the UN General Assembly (UNGA) requested the ICJ to issue an advisory opinion on the Israeli occupation, back in 2022. The Western Mainstream Media could not report that the previous ICJ rulings requiring Israel to end war practices constituting Genocide achieved nothing. For instance, the ‘world court’ ruled in January and May 2024 that Israel halt actions that constituted genocide, but the IDF with the US (here) and UK support........

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