1948 UN International Law Commission jurists found ‘territorial change only impermissible in a war of aggression’
Accusing Israel of ‘violating international law,’ U.N. Commission of Inquiry report claims turf for Palestinians that Israel won from Arab nations in self-defenseMembers of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, Navanethem Pillay, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti attend a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Oct. 27, 2022. (Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)New York—Incurring condemnation from hundreds of protestors and ignoring evidence proffered by thousands, a new report by a United Nations Commission of Inquiry claimed “reasonable grounds to conclude that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory is now unlawful.”The report of the as-titled “U.N. Thus there is no obligation to refrain from recognizing it,” Kontorovich stated. U.N. Human Rights Council chair Navi Pillay presented the COI report to the U.N. General Assembly – the body that, in 1948, formed the International Law Commission, a group of highly authoritative jurists which established that territorial change in a defensive war is permissible. The commission’s first anti-Israel report, released on June 7, was criticized by the U.S. State Department and a bipartisan group of Congress members.
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