{"id":385422,"date":"2018-11-17T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-cannot-use-violent-self-defense-while-occupying-gaza\/"},"modified":"2018-11-17T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T09:35:51","slug":"israel-cannot-use-violent-self-defense-while-occupying-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israel-cannot-use-violent-self-defense-while-occupying-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Cannot Use Violent Self-Defense While Occupying Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107179\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107179\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/33166302262_432c9482d6_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/33166302262_432c9482d6_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/11\/33166302262_432c9482d6_z-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source U.S. Embassy Jerusalem | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whenever bombings and shootings escalate in the Middle East, Israeli propagandists say that Israel is exercising its right of military self-defense against indiscriminate attacks coming from the Gaza Strip. But as this article documents, the right to use force in self-defense is contingent on Israel ending its military occupation and blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DON\u2019T MISQUOTE ME ON THAT!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Doubtless some unscrupulous person or persons will quote or interpret this article out of context and claim that I\u2019m saying that Israel has no right to self-defense at all. So, let me be clear: Israel is a nation-state like any other, like it or not. It therefore has the same legal rights as any nation-state, like it or not; including the right to use self-defense when under attack.<\/p>\n<p>However, that right within the context of occupation is contingent on Israel\u2019s adherence to international law; again, just like any state. For example: The US and British forces had no legal right to hurt or kill Iraqis resisting the illegal US-British invasion and occupation, which began in 2003. The only rights that the US and British had there was to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1967, Israel has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icrc.org\/en\/where-we-work\/middle-east\/israel-and-occupied-territories\">occupied<\/a> the Gaza Strip (and the West Bank of the Jordan, which it has now <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/Politics-And-Diplomacy\/Government-okays-bill-that-advances-West-Bank-annexation-543619\">de facto annexed<\/a><\/em>) in violation of international law. Yes, Israel withdrew its illegal colonies from Gaza in 2005, but it maintained the military blockade, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/opil.ouplaw.com\/view\/10.1093\/law:epil\/9780199231690\/law-9780199231690-e252\">an act of war<\/a> and a violation of the IV Geneva&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/11\/16\/israel-cannot-use-violent-self-defense-while-occupying-gaza\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source U.S. Embassy Jerusalem | CC BY 2.0 Whenever bombings and shootings escalate in the Middle East, Israeli propagandists say that Israel is exercising its right of military self-defense against indiscriminate attacks coming from the Gaza Strip. But as this article documents, the right to use force in self-defense is contingent on Israel ending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}