Dr. Emmanuel Navon, a member of the Likud party, knows his history. Or rather his version. As he addressed a small gathering of journalists last week at the International Press Centre in Brussels, Dr. Navon spoke on his own personal terms. In other words, what he said is officially…unofficial.
The Council of the European Union had just adopted measures to further bilateral relations with the Palestinian Authority. The EU is pushing for a two-state solution. It was in this context that brought Dr. Navon to Brussels. He was not happy.
Dr. Navon, who also teaches international relations at the Abba Eban Graduate Program for Diplomatic Studies, is a man deeply entrenched in a realist perspective of world events. According to Navon, wars found nation-states. Land is taken, borders are drawn, and a society built.
He then said that the Palestinian Authority are not abiding with international law and claims they have desecrated Jewish heritage. International law says the settlements in the West Bank are also illegal. But Navon contests this point. He claims that what the international community calls 1967 borders are instead, ceasefire lines, and are not subject to the same legal basis and definition.
He also said that the UN Human Rights Council is an Orwellian institution that treats Palestinian refugees on terms that are more favorable than “ordinary” refugees. “It is scandalous of a double-standard in international relations of Palestinian refugees,” he said. “Why is there a special UN institution for Palestinian refugees?”
Navon then said that Israel does not have to abide by UN Resolution 194. The resolution is only a recommendation. The resolution established a UN body to facilitate peace between Israel and Palestine.
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Respected Sir\ Madam, Extremely Urgent Please
Please accept my most humble regards.
I am the sister of Major Bazlul Huda who has been languishing inhumanly in a death cell in Dhaka, Bangladesh for the past 14 years. He has been framed brutally and is facing an unjust judicial murder. We are fighting against time!
The verdict of the Bangladesh Supreme Court passed on November 19, 2009 was a prearranged move towards judicial murder. On August 15, 1975 a revolution in Bangladesh occurred and the President with some of his family members passed away. Every death is regrettable. At the time my brother Bazlul Huda was junior officer and posted in M I directorate in Dhaka cantonment. He is just an unfortunate victim of circumstances. There were no arms neither any troops under his command.
The Bangaldesh judiciary system is run by the government and in the lower court the judges did not pay the slightest attention to our appeals. They brought forward fake witnesses and proper justice was not dispensed according to the due process of the law. Subsequently, in the High Court we found everything was prearranged towards a judicial murder and we were unable to prove our innocence in the face of the overwhelming power of the government which had set up the farce trial and the so-called judiciary verdict. When the case was tried in the Supreme Court, we were faced with the same prearranged travesty of justice. The judges passed their verdict under duress and intimidation from angry allies of the present regime including law enforcement officials as well as ministers. In order to ensure their personal safety they passed the prearranged verdict in favor of the ruling party. The entire case was politically motivated and the judges knew in advance the current Prime Minister desired a verdict in her favor under all circumstances although this jeopardized the legitimacy and continuity of the State. It is our shame the judges of our nation are hardly like the independent judiciary judges of The Your esteemed nation.
My brother is now being systematically dehumanized by the concerned authorities who are in a great haste to carry out this unfair prearranged execution.
I am humbly appealing to your good self on humanitarian grounds to please halt this miscarriage of justice as we are the helpless victims of the current political regime. Please halt this brutal judiciary murder and protect and uphold justice and human rights by ending this masquerade of the law.
I look forward to and pray for your kind reply.
Yours in gratitude,
Mrs. Mahfuza Pasha
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