By David Singer ——Bio and Archives--November 13, 2023
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1012 Australian barristers, lawyers and legal academics have so far signed a nine-page letter--including 89 footnotes (Australian Letter)--requesting Australia use its influence to secure a ceasefire in Gaza and the West Bank--which I won’t be signing.
The Australian Letter dated November 3, 2023 acknowledges it is based on a similar letter signed by English lawyers dated October 23, 2023 (English Letter).
Both letters fail to disclose material facts--whilst the Australian Letter also deliberately omits material facts contained in the English letter:
Neither letter states that the firing of each of these thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israeli population centers constituted a war crime.
Why?
No footnote provided for “reports of mutilation” seems to be intentional--given this Guardian Report dated October 24th was readily available:
Were these 1012 Lawyers aware that such horrific atrocities had been carried out before signing this letter?
Would these 1012 signatories have signed this letter if they realised this could be construed as giving their support for a ceasefire that would also spare the lives of these sub-human monsters from Gaza--enabling them to continue attempting to repeat these vile crimes against humanity?
These statistics were deleted in the Australian Letter.
Why?
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The Australian Letter additionally calls for:
Laughable: Those findings were made without any consideration of Article 6 of the Mandate for Palestine and article 80 of the United Nations Charter which legally authorised the Jewish People to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in that area of Palestine west of the Jordan River.
Have any of these 1012 lawyers even heard of these pillars of international law that still apply today?
This legal practitioner with 63 years of experience will certainly not be signing this misleading and deceptive letter.
Author’s note: The cartoon--commissioned exclusively for this article--is by Yaakov Kirschen aka “Dry Bones”- one of Israel’s foremost political and social commentators--whose cartoons have graced the columns of Israeli and international media publications for decades.
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com