Israel is an apartheid state. It is annexing the West Bank via an illegal occupation which it is illegally

using to steal and colonise land. And prior to 7 October 2023, as international war Gaza was under Israeli occupation

because Israel in practice exercised full control over it thanks to the

siege which itself is the longest siege in modern times.

I'm not reading out my opinion here.

I'm just reading out to you the law.

I'm reading out what the International Court of Justice, the highest court on earth, has decreed to be

international law.

At the end of 2022, the General Assembly of the UN voted to ask the ICJ to set out its

position on the legality of Israel's 57 year long occupation, the

longest belligerent occupation of modern times.

The legal judgment is absolutely devastating with near unanimity

from the judges involved in many of the opinions. To be clear this is an advisory

opinion so Israel's cheerleaders will jump on the fact that this is not a legally binding ruling.

But the point is, this reflects how the world's top core understands international law.

What it says here with the overwhelming approval of the world's stock judges should be understood as international law.

Now according to the ICJ Israel violates international law through its occupation of

Palestinian land in multiple ways.

It diverts resources to settlers and Israeli citizens defying

the responsibility it has as the occupier under international law to provide sufficient resources

to the occupied population and for the Palestinian people to have permanent sovereignty over their natural resources.

It finds Israel is breaking international law by expanding Israeli law into the

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