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Orde F. Kittrie

@ordefk

7 months

US Military Academy (West Point) Law Professor: Why Israel's siege of Gaza is legal under international law Key Points from his oped this morning in USA Today: "Israel’s siege of Gaza does not violate the law of armed conflict or international law." "Sieges are not prohibited

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The real reason South Africa's corrupt ANC-led government is filing claims against Israel at the ICJ? The Daily Maverick, a South African newspaper that previously won an international award for exposing ANC corruption, has reported claims that Iran “essentially paid the ANC to

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A no fry zone has been imposed on Russia 🍟😀

McDonald's Corporation

@McDonaldsCorp

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In a message shared to employees and franchisees, CEO Chris Kempczinski shared that McDonald's will temporarily close all restaurants and pause all operations in Russia. Click to read the message in its entirety.

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International Law Is Clear: There are No Excuses for Hamas’ Murders and Rapes As a law professor and former U.S. State Department attorney, I’m surprised to see so many excuses being made – on this platform and elsewhere – for Hamas’ murders and rapes. Under international law,

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6 years

New WSJ oped: What’s the Matter With Norway? Wealthy Norway fails to pay its share for NATO, boycotts Boeing because they make nuclear weapons for the US (which US uses to protect Norway), invests in Iran govt bonds, funds boycotters of Israel

What’s the Matter With Norway?

President Trump says Oslo is a ‘great ally.’ So why is it boycotting Wal-Mart while investing in Iran?

www.wsj.com

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2 years

🧵As part of new Iran deal, US to reportedly lift all sanctions on many of Iran’s most barbaric abusers of human rights, including Khamenei, Raisi, Rezaei, Deghhan. This thread gives five reasons why that is a very bad idea and describes each of their abuses of human rights. 1/

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7 months

US Military Academy (West Point) Professor article today: "Hamas is legally obligated to evacuate the civilian population." "Hamas should be encouraging the civilians’ departure, not urging against it." The UN and Red Cross should be "condemning Hamas's efforts to keep the

Orde F. Kittrie

@ordefk

7 months

New Article by US Military Academy (West Point) Professor Mike Schmitt: Israel is RIGHT to urge civilians to depart northern Gaza; UN and Red Cross criticisms of Israeli warnings endanger Gaza civilians and are wrong about law of armed conflict Key Quotes from "The Evacuation

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7 months

Telegraph (UK) quotes me today explaining Israel can legally refuse to supply Gaza with water and power: Orde Kittrie, who spent nearly a decade as a lawyer at the State Department, argued it was “fully consistent” with the laws of war for Israel to refuse to supply Gaza with

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As a law professor and former US State Department attorney, I'm surprised to see so many denials -- on this platform and elsewhere -- that Hamas is a terrorist group. Hamas is clearly and undisputably a terrorist organization. For example, Hamas has long been designated by the

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7 months

New Article by US Military Academy (West Point) Professor Mike Schmitt: Israel is RIGHT to urge civilians to depart northern Gaza; UN and Red Cross criticisms of Israeli warnings endanger Gaza civilians and are wrong about law of armed conflict Key Quotes from "The Evacuation

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6 months

New article by former US prosecutor and former State Department attorney: US Department of Justice can and should immediately announce prosecutions of, and demand that Qatar and Turkey turn over, Haniyeh, Mashaal, Marzook, and other top Hamas leaders currently in Qatar and

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3 years

Thread: 1/ EU is wrong to call killing of Fakhrizadeh "a criminal act." The US Army JAG Corps has explicitly taken the position that such a killing is legal during international armed conflict, using as an example the U.S.'s own nuclear weapons program.

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Orde F. Kittrie

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2 years

Another cost of the nearly finalized nuke deal: it has so alienated both Saudi Prince Mohammed & UAE Sheikh that they are refusing to take calls from Biden. This while Saudi & UAE are the only producers that can pump millions of more barrels of oil.

WSJ News Exclusive | Saudi, Emirati Leaders Decline Calls With Biden During Ukraine Crisis

The Persian Gulf monarchies have signaled they won’t help ease surging oil prices unless Washington supports them in Yemen, elsewhere.

www.wsj.com

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@ordefk

3 years

If you were okay with Obama's 542 targeted killings of two-bit terrorists in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, in attacks that killed 324 civilians, but are opposed to the surgical killing of the architect of Iran's genocidal nuclear program, why is that?

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4 months

Thread: Analysis of today's ICJ order by Orde Kittrie (law professor, senior fellow, and former US State Dept. attorney): ICJ order's negative impact on US national security: “The ICJ’s failure to entirely dismiss South Africa’s meritless claims undermines the West’s on-going

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2 years

New article: the former top UN lawyer for disciplinary issues says UN Commission of Inquiry into Israel members Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari, and Chris Sidoti were appointed against UN rules, have violated UN rules while in office, and should be FIRED

The Time Is Now to Reform the UN Human Rights Apparatus

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@ordefk

3 years

1/ No, the Fakhrizadeh killing is not a violation of international law. The reasoning of the US Military Academy's law department (in the Soleimani case) explains why. Iran & Israel are engaged in an international armed conflict.

John O. Brennan

@JohnBrennan

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I do not know whether a foreign government authorized or carried out the the murder of Fakhrizadeh. Such an act of state-sponsored terrorism would be a flagrant violation of international law & encourage more governments to carry out lethal attacks against foreign officials.

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Absolutely correct, @SecBlinken , Hamas surrender is essential. My below article describes exactly how the U.S. could help achieve Hamas surrender by putting decisive pressure on Qatar and Turkey to arrest the numerous top Hamas leaders they harbor. Detaining so many top Hamas

Andrew Bates

@AndrewJBates46

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. @SecBlinken : "This could be over tomorrow if Hamas got out of the way of civilians - instead of hiding behind them - if it put down its weapons, if it surrendered. And what there ought to be...is a call on behalf of the entire world for Hamas to do just that."

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Thread: 1/ To those calling illegal Israel's killing of Iran nuclear weapons program chief Fakhrizadeh: US Army JAG Corps has explicitly taken the position that such killing is legal during international armed conflict, using as an example the U.S.'s own nuclear weapons program.

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3 years

Thread on my new article, which lists numerous examples of Hamas use of human shields (a war crime) during May 2021 Gaza conflict and explains why Biden should fulfill his statutory obligation, under the Shields Act, to respond with sanctions. 1/

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@ordefk

4 years

@PeaceNowUS @jaketapper King Hussein, who understood what @aoc doesn't, gave a EULOGY at #Rabin 's funeral, even though Hussein as Jordan's King lost '67 war to IDF led by Gen. Rabin. Hussein honored Rabin "as a brother, as a friend" and said: "You lived as a soldier, and you died as a soldier of peace."

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Thread: A US-mediated deal is being finalized in which Israel agrees to Saudi control over strategic islands. In return, Riyadh should publicly demonstrate its attitude towards Israel has truly and sustainably changed. My article details these 8 ideas: 1/

Israeli-Saudi Deal Over Two Islands Is a Step Toward Peace

Israel and Saudi Arabia have reportedly agreed on a security arrangement enabling Egypt to transfer to the Saudis two strategic islands near Israel. In return for Israel’s acquiescence, Saudi Arabia...

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2 years

My new article discusses the historic significance of the Israeli-Saudi island deal and provides seven specific ideas for how the deal can be leveraged into greater steps towards Arab-Israeli and Muslim-Israeli peace.

Israeli-Saudi Deal Over Two Islands Is a Step Toward Peace

Israel and Saudi Arabia have reportedly agreed on a security arrangement enabling Egypt to transfer to the Saudis two strategic islands near Israel. In return for Israel’s acquiescence, Saudi Arabia...

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Lahav Harkov 🎗️

@LahavHarkov

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It's done: Israel and Saudi Arabia agree, with US mediation, on security arrangements in Straits of Tiran, and Israeli airlines will be able to fly over Saudi airspace to all destinations

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3 years

To those calling illegal & unnecessary the killing of head of Iran nuclear program designed to wipe off map Israel's 6 million Jews: Obama authorized 542 drone strikes that killed 3,797 people (incl. 324 civilians). No Obama target was working practically to kill 6 mill Americans

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@ordefk

2 years

🧵As part of new Iran deal, Biden to reportedly lift all sanctions on many of Iran’s most barbaric abusers of human rights. At a time when Putin barbarically committing war crimes in Ukraine & human rights abuses in Russia, impunity for these Iranians sends dangerous message. 1/

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3 years

Thread -- The Israel Defense Forces announced today its discovery that Hezbollah is storing rockets, military-grade explosives and other weapons in a home 25 meters from a children's school in Lebanon. 1/

IDF: Hezbollah storing weapons 25 meters from a school

The explosion of a Hezbollah warehouse near a school, should it happen, would be half the size of the Beirut explosion of last year.

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7 years

NATO member Norway buys Iran government bonds yet divests from Walmart for "serious violations of human rights"

How U.S. Allies Undermine NATO

European countries divest from American defense firms that help protect them.

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New article: Palestin. Islamic Jihad human shields use in Aug 5-7 Gaza conflict was latest in long PIJ history of such, including building kids’ park at border to use kids as human shields. Time for Biden to implement Shields Act & hold PIJ accountable. -

The Use of Human Shields Is a War Crime. America Must Hold Terrorists Accountable

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the Gaza-based terrorist organization, repeatedly used civilians to shield its fighters and rockets from Israeli airstrikes during clashes earlier this month. The use...

www.19fortyfive.com

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3 years

3/ Per BBC, Fakhrizadeh was not only participant but "head of the ministry of defence's research and innovation organisation," and "senior officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," which has in its entirety been designated by US as terrorist org.

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran

Iran's foreign minister has condemned the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh "as an act of state terror".

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@ordefk

6 years

As many U.S. #veterans say, Islamic State & other terrorists’ use of human shields is a frustratingly effective tactic against U.S. forces, whose ethical and military codes require avoiding civilian casualties. Time for U.S. to get serious in response.

Opinion | Get Serious About Human Shields

Congress considers a special sanctions regime for terror groups that use them.

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4 years

Iran's President Rouhani saying today U.S. should "compensate" Iran for President Trump's "mistakes." Reminder: Iran still owes $53 billion in unpaid U.S. COURT JUDGMENTS to American victims of Iranian terrorism. When is Iran going to compensate them?

Iran Still Owes $53 Billion in Unpaid U.S. Court Judgments to American Victims of Iranian Terrorism

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April 20 that nearly $2 billion in frozen Iranian government funds must be turned over to injured survivors and families of Americans killed in the 1983 bombing of...

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@ordefk

5 months

People who call for another "intifada" are calling for another campaign of deliberate, genocidal murders of Jewish civilians. The second (most recent) intifada, from 2000 to 2005, included a campaign of bombings or other attacks by Hamas on: a civilian Passover service in Netanya

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"Hamas has a powerful unconventional weapon . . . : Palestinian civilians, used as human shields. The more Palestinians who die because Hamas terrorists cynically hide behind them, the more the free world will turn against Israel." -- Natan Sharansky in

Opinion | Now comes the test of who supports Israelis’ human right to self-defense

If the past is a guide, many observers will soon begin unfairly attacking Israel for its fight against terrorism. Or maybe, just maybe, this time will be different.

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@ordefk

3 years

6/ Its longtime war against Israel, w/frequent terror attacks, means Iran has no legal grounds to complain if Israel kills head of nuke arms program designed to provide Iran w/ means to achieve frequently expressed genocidal desire to wipe off map #Israel and its 6 million Jews.

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My new article: South Africa's president, facing electoral defeat, is attacking Israel to distract from his party having looted billions of dollars from South Africa's state treasury, leaving the South African people with daily power blackouts of up to 12 hours, days at a time

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1/The following thread contains my analysis of text of "Treaty of Peace, Diplomatic Relations and Full Normalization Between the United Arab Emirates and the State of Israel," based on my 10 years negotiating int'l agreements as a US State Dept attorney

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4 years

@FrankLuntz This debate, it’s rules, and it’s moderator are a grave disservice to American democracy.

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Good riddance to #Fakhrizadeh , architect of a nuclear program designed to provide Iran's government with the means to achieve its frequently expressed desire to wipe off the map #Israel and it's 6 million Jews. Never again.

Prominent Iranian nuclear scientist killed in ambush attack, bringing threats of revenge

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was seen as a key figure in Iran’s former covert efforts to develop an atomic weapon.

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2/ Per the JAG Corps' memorandum: "More than 90% of the World War II Project Manhattan personnel were civilians, and their participation in the U.S. atomic weapons program was of such importance as to have made them liable to legitimate attack."

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Thread compares today's UNHRC Russia-Ukraine resolution w/ UNHRC Israel-Gaza resolution adopted last May. UNHRC handled RU unprovoked & barbaric attack on Ukr less strongly than Isr's self-defensive & measured response to 4000 rockets from Gaza. UNHRC left tools unused vs RU. 1/

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Numerous South Africans disagree with the ruling ANC party's pro-Putin, anti-Israel foreign policy. South Africa's leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, slams the ANC's Gaza policy as "performative sanctimony" designed to "distract the nation" from the ANC's

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27.5 % of South African children are stunted due to malnutrition, thanks to officials in SA's ANC-led government "looting... billions of dollars from South Africa's state coffers." So why is SA spending money and time supporting Putin and Hamas? For malnutrition stats see

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Hamas repeatedly committed war crimes by using human shields in Gaza. NATO, hamstrung by ISIS & Taliban human shields use, says it "essential" to punish shields use by terrorist groups. Congress should urge Biden to do so, by implementing the Shields Act.

How Congress can fight Hamas’s use of human shields

The Trump administration did not fulfill its statutory obligation, and the Biden administration has not yet done so.

thehill.com

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Quote today of me (former State Department attorney) on S. African govt's false claim Israel is committing genocide: “Israel’s extensive advance warning and other measures to mitigate harm to Gaza civilians make clear that Israel’s goal is not to commit genocide but, far from it,

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2/ Fakhrizadeh, an IRGC official, was developing a weapon designed to enable Iran to achieve its genocidal vow to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Israel has the right to defend itself, in accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter.

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Thread: responding to false claims IRGC Brigadier General #Fakhrizadeh was a civilian scientist leading a peaceful nuclear power research effort, this thread provides evidence his program’s goal was to develop nuclear-armed missiles capable of destroying Israel.

Orde F. Kittrie

@ordefk

3 years

Thread on goals/progress of Iran's nuclear bomb program under Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. 1/ Evidence of goal: Photo below of Shahab-3 missiles on parade in Iran. The sign on the front truck says: "Israel must be destroyed."

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Russian FM: Bucha atrocities "fake." Yet RU is to have pivotal role implementing Iran nuke deal (including RU storing excess Iran uranium & downgrading Iran nuke facilities). If RU FM lies about atrocities visible to world, certain to lie about Iranian compliance at closed sites.

BBC News (World)

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov calls alleged atrocities in Bucha a "fake attack" that was "staged" several days after Russian forces withdrew from the area

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Lifting sanctions on Iran's worst human rights abusers sends a dangerous message of impunity to Putin and his henchmen at a time when they are committing war crimes in Ukraine and human rights abuses in Russia. 2/

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2 years

Iran will only roll back its nuclear program if convinced it is futile to seek a nuclear bomb because the US military will ultimately prevent it from succeeding. Yet Biden today, w/ Iran weeks from nuclear breakout, was less firm than Obama in 2012, w/ Iran farther from bomb. 1/

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Lifting sanctions on Iranian human rights abusers abandons reformers, other dissidents in Iran. There were mass uprisings in Iran in 2018, 2019, 2020. Regime killed 1500 demonstrators in Nov 2019 alone. US should support the victims not free the perpetrators from consequences. 3/

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Lifting sanctions on many of Iran's worst human rights abusers empowers Iranian hardliners. Those who violate international law commitments on human rights are most likely to violate Iran's nuclear commitments. They should be isolated and sanctioned not freed from pressure. 4/

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Post wrongly equates a) premeditated, 1st degree Khashoggi murder to which killers brought bone saw w/ b) unintentional death of Abu Akleh by errant bullet shot from far away during gunfight w/ terrorists. They're totally different, factually & legally.

Three journalist deaths fit uneasily in Biden’s human rights push

Biden's response to three journalists' deaths highlights the challenge of elevating human rights while building a coalition against China and Russia.

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3 years

Thread: 1/ EU is wrong to call killing of Fakhrizadeh "a criminal act." The U.S. Army JAG Corps has explicitly taken the position that such a killing is legal during international armed conflict, using as an example the U.S.'s own nuclear weapons program.

laurence norman

@laurnorman

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EU's @eu_eeas on Fakhrizadeh killing. "This is a criminal act and runs counter to the principle of respect for human rights the EU stands for. The High Representative expresses his condolences to the family members of the individuals who were killed."

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Hundreds of International Law Experts from Around World Specify and Condemn Hamas War Crimes, Declare All Countries Now Have Legal Duty to Act Swiftly Signatories include law professors from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France,

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It's time for the US to stop subsidizing, and to instead impose sanctions on, South Africa's corrupt ANC leadership which has been assisting Putin and Hamas and "looting...billions of dollars from South Africa's state coffers." The US provides SA with $660 million per year in

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Secretary Blinken today: “[W]e hear many countries urging the end to this conflict, which we would all like to see, I hear virtually no one saying – demanding of Hamas that it stop hiding behind civilians, that it lay down its arms, that it surrender. This is over tomorrow if

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@BarakRavid reports U.S. Senators Joni Ernst and Jacky Rosen today asked Biden to make clear to Qatar that if it fails to secure a new hostage release, this could "significantly impact bilateral relations" with the United States. My below article from last week provides a list

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New: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen (Nev.) sent a letter to President Biden asking him to put pressure on Qatar to strong-arm Hamas back to the negotiating table on a new hostage deal. My story on @axios

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Wall Street Journal letter by former US State Department attorney: Several utterly biased UN officials are issuing absurdly restrictive mischaracterizations of Israel’s right of self-defense, making up excuses for unjustifiable terrorist attacks, and wrongly alleging that Israel

FDD

@FDD

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The U.N. Piles On Israel Wild allegations increase pressure on Israel to leave Hamas in power and set precedents that will hurt America’s ability to fight terrorists. @ordefk wrote a letter to the editor in @WSJ :

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The Iran deal to reportedly lift all sanctions on IRGC Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, who was responsible for mass executions as IRGC Tehran head & also headed IRGC in Lebanon in 1983 when Iran ordered Beirut barracks bombing which killed 241 US Marines. 15/

Treasury Designates Supreme Leader of Iran’s Inner Circle Responsible for Advancing Regime’s...

Action coincides with 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today against Iran’s Armed...

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4/ Fakhrizadeh more than fit the description: he was not just an Iran nuke weapons scientist but program chief, and also "head of the ministry of defence's research and innovation organisation."

Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist, assassinated near Tehran

Iran's foreign minister has condemned the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh "as an act of state terror".

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Lifting sanctions on many Iran's worst human rights abusers weakens deterrence against future abuse. Iran likely to witness further mass uprisings. If these sanctions lifted, Iran officials will have less worries about personal price they might pay for crushing new uprisings. 5/

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The Iran deal will reportedly lift all sanctions on Mohsen Rezaei, former IRGC head, who is wanted by Argentina on an Interpol Red Notice for organizing the 1994 attack on a Jewish community center which killed 85 people. 14/

Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee Should Face Justice

If Rezaee travels with impunity, Iran will seek to further push the limits, and legitimize the accused in the same way that it has done with near impunity in the nuclear file.

nationalinterest.org

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5/ Thus, existence of Iran-Israel international armed conflict means, according to longstanding interpretation of the US Army JAG Corps, that Israel would have had at least two fully sufficient rationales for killing Fakhrizadeh: his roles in 1) Iran nuke weapon program & 2) IRGC

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4/ Per BBC, Fakhrizadeh was also "senior officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," part of Iran armed forces, which has in its entirety been designated by US as terrorist org. Per JAG memo, F was legit target simply because IRGC officer, in addition to nuke weapon chief.

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4/ Israel has right to kill Fakhrizadeh, both as IRGC official and as MOD official taking part in hostilities (as head of Iran's genocidal nuclear weapons program). For Israel, F's killing is = US's WWII legal killing of Yamamoto or plan to kill Nazi nuke program head Heisenberg.

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My new legal analysis of #UAE - #Israel treaty text: it's a far larger pivot than understood, sharply rejecting all aspects of Palest'n unproductive zero-sum conflict agenda. Instead: commits to transform MidEast thru fruitful regional cooperation w/ Israel.

UAE-Israel Treaty Is Far Larger Step Towards Peace Than Critics Allege

No deal is perfect, but any improvement should not be downplayed when it makes the volatile Middle East more peaceful and win-win.

nationalinterest.org

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Thread: Kudos @USTreasury for sanctions today on Hezbollah fake "green" group, which built dozens of outposts all along, and yards from, Israel-Lebanon border. Ostensibly to fight fires, outposts in fact house terrorists & block UN peacekeeper patrols. 1/

Hezbollah ‘Green’ Group Builds Dozens of New Military Outposts Along Israeli Border

The buildings also block border access by United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers

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@ordefk

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Lifting sanctions on Iran's human rights abusers as part of nuclear deal is unnecessary and contrary to how US dealt with the far more dangerous Soviets. Both Carter and Reagan continued human rights pressure on USSR while successfully negotiating major arms control deals. 6/

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4 years

The following tweet thread includes some of my thoughts on today's signing of the #AbrahamAccords .

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New article: Several activist groups have attempted to justify the Hamas murder, torture, and kidnapping of civilians in Israel by invoking a supposed "right to resist." The article explains that international law allows no such exception to its prohibition of murder,

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Attorney General Merrick Garland briefly announced Wednesday (Dec. 6), without additional detail, that DOJ is investigating the deaths and hostage takings of Americans by Hamas. DOJ must quickly and publicly prosecute both the gunmen and complicit Hamas leaders (many of whom are

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"How to Help Bring Hamas to its Knees With Less Bloodshed: Heavy U.S. Pressure on Qatar & Turkey to Arrest Hamas Leaders They Harbor." The U.S. has a powerful opportunity to greatly reduce the bloodshed involved in ending Hamas rule over Gaza. The top Hamas leaders in Qatar

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Thread: 1/ Hezbollah just proved accurate #Netanyhu UN speech revealing 3 missile factories next to or under civilian homes. After speech, in effort to debunk, #Hezbollah gave tour of site. Tour video shows IT IS A MISSILE FACTORY, w/ missile production machines clearly visible.

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Turns out you need more than one hour to evacuate a Precision Guided Missile (PGM) manufacturing site, so Hezbollah hoped the reporters just wouldn't notice. Well... we did. Here’s what was hiding in plain sight:

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The Iran deal will reportedly lift all sanctions on Ebrahim Raisi, now Iran's president, who was previously responsible for the execution of thousands of political prisoners and the unlawful torture and killings of hundreds of peaceful protesters. 13/

Raisi: Record on Crackdown & Human Rights

Hadi Ghaemi is the founder and executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran.

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@ordefk

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When Egypt made peace w/ Israel in 1979, it was suspended from Arab League. When UAE makes peace with Israel in 2020, Arab League refuses to condemn and now Bahrain reportedly will join peace parade!Soon it may be only Palest'ns, Iran & campus activists opposing peace w/ Israel.

Raphael Ahren

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BREAKING: US President Donald Trump is expected to announce on Friday that BAHRAIN is joining the United Arab Emirates in normalizing ties with Israel, two officials familiar with the matter tell me. More soon on @TimesofIsrael

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2/ Per the JAG Corps' memorandum: "More than 90% of the World War II Project Manhattan personnel were civilians, and their participation in the U.S. atomic weapons program was of such importance as to have made them liable to legitimate attack."

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@ordefk

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British Foreign Secretary (Foreign Minister) James Cleverly: "Hamas is the greatest threat to the Palestinian people," Hamas is "using women and children as human shields," and Hamas "is the cause" of both Israeli and Palestinian deaths in the current conflict.

James Cleverly🇬🇧

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Hamas is the greatest threat to the Palestinian people. They hide in hospitals and schools, using woman and children as human shields. The death of any civilian is a tragedy. Palestinian or Israeli - Hamas is the cause of this loss.

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CNN suggests real reason Hamas attacked on Oct. 7 may be because Hamas support in Gaza had declined as More Gazans Blamed Hamas Than Israel for Their Problems: "A poll completed, remarkably, on October 6 found that 67% of Palestinians in Gaza reported having either “no trust at

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Reagan speech after a summit with Soviets: "We didn't limit ourselves to just arms reductions. We discussed...violation of human rights...for a government that will break faith with its own people cannot be trusted to keep faith with foreign powers.” 9/

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Israeli PM Bennett reportedly just met with Putin in Moscow for 2.5 hours. This is presumably a followup to Zelensky last week asking Bennett, as reported below, to mediate between Russia and Ukraine. via @timesofisrael

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Reminder of why the pause in fighting ended on Dec. 1: “It came to an end because of Hamas," Blinken said of the cease-fire. “Hamas reneged on commitments it made. In fact, even before the pause came to an end, it committed an atrocious terrorist attack in Jerusalem, killing

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@ordefk

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Neither Carter while negotiating SALT II nor Reagan while negotiating the INF Treaty made concessions on human rights in order to achieve arms control progress. Instead, both Carter and Reagan made clear that human rights progress was key to increasing trust on arms control. 7/

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@ordefk

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US Military Academy (West Point) Law Professor article today: "Hamas is legally obligated to evacuate the civilian population." "Hamas should be encouraging the civilians’ departure, not urging against it." The UN and Red Cross should be "condemning Hamas's efforts to keep the

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@ordefk

7 months

New Article by US Military Academy (West Point) Professor Mike Schmitt: Israel is RIGHT to urge civilians to depart northern Gaza; UN and Red Cross criticisms of Israeli warnings endanger Gaza civilians and are wrong about law of armed conflict Key Quotes from "The Evacuation

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3/ Further explanation as to why Israel's killing of Fakhrizadeh did not violate international law is set forth in the US Defense Department's "Hays Memorandum." The international armed conflict Iran has engaged in against Israel means that

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@ordefk

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🧵Iran dares attempt assassinations in the US because it doesn't fear the consequences. A similar failure of US deterrence is leading Iran to accelerate its nuclear program, now closer to a bomb than ever. It’s past time for a new US policy on Iran. 1/

US charges 3 in plot to kill Iranian-American author in NYC

The Justice Department has charged three men in an alleged plot that originated in Iran to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses.

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@ordefk

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In Carter’s June 1978 speech at US Naval Academy, he both discussed import of the ongoing SALT II negotiations and discussed Soviet rights abuses: “The abuse of basic human rights in their own country...has earned them the condemnation of people everywhere who love freedom.” 8/

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@ordefk

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1/ Updated thread, w/ additional sourcing, shows that claims Fakhrizadeh killing was illegal contradict the language of Obama Admin's DOD Law of War Manual, per which Israel had at least 2 distinct fully sufficient rationales: F roles in a) Iran nuke weapon program & b) IRGC.

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@ordefk

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2/ Obama DOD Law of War Manual, issued 2016, restated & endorsed long-held JAG position that "civilian scientists occupying key positions in a weapons program regarded as vital to a nation's national security or war aims [are] liable to legitimate attack."

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Deal is to lift sanctions on Khamenei, who US judges held personally responsible, & ordered to pay $1B damages, for killing of 19 US servicemen by bombing Khobar Towers residence US base Saudi Arabia, as well as for killings of US civilians in 3 terrorist bombings in Israel. 12/

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🧵In new Iran deal, US reportedly to lift sanctions on Supreme Ldr Khamenei & his personal slush funds ("bonyads"). This would ignore fact that US courts have ordered Khamenei personally owes over $1 billion in damages to US victims of Iran terrorism. 1/

Iran Still Owes $53 Billion in Unpaid U.S. Court Judgments to American Victims of Iranian Terrorism

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on April 20 that nearly $2 billion in frozen Iranian government funds must be turned over to injured survivors and families of Americans killed in the 1983 bombing of...

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@ordefk

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A US law (the Shields Act), unanimously passed by Congress, requires President to hold specific Hamas officials accountable for using human shields. Doing so would send message to leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, Russia, the Taliban, ISIS, and other prolific users of human shields.

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New article on Hamas use of human shields: The rampant use of human shields by NATO adversaries has led the alliance’s Supreme Allied Commander to urge all NATO members to impose sanctions and take other measures to counter human shields use. Failure to hold specific Hamas

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@ordefk

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#UAE statement envisions a much warmer peace than Israel has with Egypt & Jordan, discussing partnering in 10 fields to "transform the region by spurring economic growth, enhancing technological innovation, and forging closer people-to-people relations."

Full text of joint statement on UAE and Israel normalizing ties

ABU DHABI: The UAE and Israel reached an historic peace deal on Thursday leading to a full normalization of diplomatic relations between the two nations, a joint statement said. The full text of the

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@ordefk

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King Hussein, who understood what @aoc does not, gave a EULOGY at #Rabin 's funeral, even though Hussein as Jordan's King lost '67 war to IDF led by Rabin. Hussein honored Rabin "as a brother, as a friend" and said: "You lived as a soldier, and you died as a soldier of peace."

Natan Sachs

@natansachs

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I honestly first thought @alexbkane was doing a parody of faux-progressive Puritanism. No. Peacemakers apparently should only be those who never were at war. Rabin’s 1993 attempt at peace apparently so deceptive even his assassin fell for it, but not intrepid 2020 cancellers

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Thread: 1/ @AOC needs a history lesson. #Rabin 's funeral was attended by Pres. Mubarak of Egypt & King Hussein of Jordan, which lost the '67 war to Israel led by Rabin. Hussein gave a eulogy: "You lived as a soldier, and you died as a soldier of peace."

Jake Tapper

@jaketapper

4 years

. @AOC is being attacked for participating in a Memorial Event for Yitzhak Rabin who was literally assassinated by a right-wing Israeli zealot for his peace efforts with the Palestinians, especially Oslo. More in this thread (not saying Alex Kane is attacking) -

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When Egypt made peace w/ Israel in 1979, it was suspended from Arab League. When UAE makes peace with Israel in 2020, Arab League refuses to condemn and now Bahrain joins peace parade! Soon it may be only Palest'ian rejectionists, Iran, & campus radicals opposing peace w/ Israel.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

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Joint Statement of the United States, the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the State of Israel

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Reagan's top arms control aide Ken Adelman: "Can we be surprised when a nation that makes no effort to abide by its human rights agreement commitments also violates its arms control agreements?" 10/

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Lifting sanctions on Iran human rts abusers contradicts Biden admin commitments. During confirm hearing, UnderSecDefense for Policy Kahl said US “should not be loosening sanctions on terrorism or human rights or anything else that checks back Iran’s destabilizing activities.” 11/

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@ordefk

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🧵about new article: Only 40 of 193 UN members have put sanctions on Russia in response to Ukraine invasion; 153 have none. While the 40 are over half of global economy, the nos include these among world's largest 20 economies: China ( #2 ), India ( #6 )...1/

Orde Kittrie on “How to Include Far More Lawfare Ammunition in Next UN General Assembly Resolution...

Today’s post is by Professor Orde Kittrie, and he makes a very interesting addition to our essays related to the war in the Ukraine by examining the UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions add…

sites.duke.edu

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@ordefk

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ICJ mustn't ignore that Israel’s West Bank presence, grounded in self defense pending land for peace exchange, has limited to 5 the total rockets fired into Israel from there since 2005. In contrast: over 20,000 rocket launches at Israel from Gaza since Israel withdrawal in '05.

Articles of War

@Articles_of_War

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The pending @CIJ_ICJ #advisoryopinion might undermine not only the “land for #peace ” framework for #Israeli - #Palestinian #conflict resolution but also several #legal principles, argue @ordefk & Bruce Rashkow.

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