“Steeds meer landen maken bekend dat ze door de Amerikaanse president Trump zijn uitgenodigd om toe te treden tot zijn vredesraad. […] Ook Nederland heeft inmiddels een uitnodiging ontvangen, zo werd door een woordvoerder van premier Schoof bevestigd na berichtgeving door NRC. Nederland heeft nog niet besloten of het op de uitnodiging ingaat. “Er zijn nog veel vragen over wat dit precies inhoudt.”” (https://nos.nl/…/2598867-verdeelde-reacties-op-trumps…).
Ik vestig graag de aandacht op de waarschuwing van Craig Mohkiber, internationaal rechtsgeleerde, tegen een deelname aan Trump’s Board of Peace.
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“To be clear: The occupation of Gaza is unlawful under international law. Israel and the US are perpetrating genocide in Gaza. Both the occupation and the genocide breach the highest (“jus cogens & erga omnes”) rules of international law, which no colonial edict by Trump, no ultra vires resolution of the Security Council, and no agreement by the occupied Palestinian Authority can legalize. The Trump “Board of Peace” is structurally and functionally an extension of the occupation, and is led by one of the genocide co-perpetrators with the authoritative participation of the other. Any state or individual that participates in this unlawful body is complicit in the grave international crimes of the U.S.-Israel Axis, for which they could and should be held accountable. And, also as a matter of international law, the Palestinian people have a right to resist the foreign occupation, colonial domination, and racist regime to which they are subjected, and people around the world have the right to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in this struggle. The world is watching to see who joins the Palestinian people in their struggle for freedom, and who joins their oppressors in the colonial “Board of Peace.”” (https://www.facebook.com/561670745/posts/10164736675600746/)
Craig Gerard Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer and activist and a former senior United Nations human rights official.