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While Asking For Peace, The United States Denies Genocide

While asking for respect and peace, the United States denies genocide

Cuba demanded at the UN not to remain inert in the face of the massacre in progress

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

may 23, 2024 09:05:27

Photo: Artwork by Michel Moro

Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) had to “lump together” the Zionist government of Israel and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, in order to propose a detention agreement to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, for the genocide being committed in Gaza against the Palestinian population, the ruling clashed with the position of the United States, which does ñnot allow any sanction against Israel.
The reaction, both from President Joe Biden and á of State Antony Blinken, and even within the U.S. Congress, has surpassed everything imaginable: U.S. sanctions against the ICC itself, for seeking to act against Netanyahu and his Minister of Defense.
The U.S. president described as “outrageous” the request of the prosecutor of the international justice entity, Karim Khan, for issuing the arrest warrants.
“And let me be clear: whatever this prosecutor may imply, there is no equivalence – none – between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel,” said the U.S. president, while denying that genocide is being committed in Gaza.
The U.S. Congress, for its part, is promoting bipartisan legislation that would impose sanctions on anyone involved in the case of the arrest warrants.
In light of this situation, the Attorney General of the Hague Court has warned that threats against him and his institution constitute a criminal offense, after receiving a threatening letter from Republican and Democratic members of the U.S. Congress.
While the incumbent occupant of the White House reaffirms his position on the side of the massacre, Cuba, like most countries, demands respect for Palestinian civilians caught in the conflict by demanding that the UN Security Council fulfill its mandate for peace, Cubaminrex reported.
The island’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Ernesto Soberón, called on the 15-member body not to remain inert in the face of the ongoing massacre, and on the international community not to stop its call to halt the Israeli offensive.

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The left must unite in a common front

The left must articulate a symbolic common front

With the condemnation of the genocide against the Palestinian people and the proposal of initiatives for coordinated action in pursuit of just causes, the Second International Meeting of Theoretical Publications of Left Parties and Movements concluded in Havana

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

Author:  | nacionales@granma.cu

february 15, 2024 12:02:10

Photo: Prensa Latina

A declaration of solidarity with Palestine, which condemns the clear violations of human rights committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, and denounces the genocide against that people, and their forced displacement, as well as the complicity of imperialism in such crimes, marked the final day of the Second International Meeting of Theoretical Publications of Left Parties and Movements, which concluded yesterday in Havana.
In the wide-ranging debates held by 97 foreign delegates and 59 Cubans, from 43 organizations and 36 media, the formation of a collective thinking on the essential aspects that occupy the left in the world was stimulated.
Enrique Ubieta Gómez, director of the Cuba Socialista magazine and coordinator of the event, alluded, in his summary remarks, to significant issues that marked the meeting, such as the confrontation to cultural colonialism and the challenges of leftist youth in times of neo-fascism.
Ubieta referred that the call is to unity in the face of the great global problems, to the unity of the oppressed, which is strengthened from the diversity and plurality of the left movements, and the participation and criticism to find the necessary paths.
In this purpose of articulating a “symbolic common front”, some proposals were to create a permanent mechanism of work between meetings, which Cuba will cover; to establish a network that systematizes the diversity of publications, and a repository of contents; to create an international advisory council; and to stimulate cooperation between universities, research centers and organizations.
Rescuing the memory of Marxism, keeping revolutionary paradigms alive, denouncing blockades, and supporting just causes and struggles were other aspects mentioned by Ubieta, who recalled the need to generate confidence and certainty that a better world is possible and essential.

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CUBA presents at The Int’l. Court of Justice

Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of ‘Israel’ in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem testimony was initiated in the United Nations in December 2022.

Fifty-two States and three international organizations have expressed their intention to participate in the oral proceedings before the Court.

Cuba will present its statement on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 5 am ET, 2 am PT and 11 to 11:30 local time The Hague. And can be viewed at https://webtv.un.org/

On 30 December 2022, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/77/247 with 87 votes in favor, 26 against, and 53 abstentions.[9][10][11]

Summary
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
Description

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, from 19 to 26 February 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court. Session held under the presidency of Judge Nawaf Salam, President of the Court.

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Diaz-Canel says Cuba will not accept ignoring genocide against Palestinians

Cuba’s president has strongly condemned Israel’s genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip and blamed Israel and the United States for 75 years of occupation and violating the “inalienable” rights of the Palestinians.

Author:  | internet@granma.cu

october 30, 2023 09:10:32

Photo: Granma

Havana, October 29 (RHC)– Cuba’s president has strongly condemned Israel’s genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip and blamed Israel and the United States for 75 years of occupation and violating the “inalienable” rights of the Palestinians.

In his statements to national television On Saturday, Miguel Diaz-Canel expressed his country’s strong condemnation of the genocide, and the destruction of homes, hospitals, and civilian infrastructure perpetrated by the Israeli forces in Palestinian land.

“We will not accept any selective indignation that seeks to ignore the danger of the genocide that is being perpetrated against the Palestinians, portray the Israeli side as the victim, and ignore 75 years of aggression, occupation, violations, and exclusion,” he said.

“We reject the killing of innocent people as a result of the current escalation and fierce and indiscriminate aggression, without distinction of race, origin, gender, or belief,” Diaz-Canel stressed.

He described Israel’s bloodshed in Gaza as “unjustifiable” and in “serious violation” of humanitarian and international laws.  “Israel violates all United Nations resolutions and all commitments imposed on it as an occupying power as stipulated in the Fourth Geneva Convention,” he said, adding, “The Security Council was unable to call on Israel to stop the ongoing massacre, as the United States used the veto right.”

“The United States is the historical accomplice of ‘Zionist barbarism,’” he added.

“The comprehensive, just, and permanent solution to the conflict undoubtedly requires the real exercise of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the establishment of their independent and sovereign state within the borders of pre-1967, with its capital in East al-Quds,” the Cuban President highlighted.

He also confirmed that a group of countries, including Cuba, proposed a draft resolution to the United Nations General Assembly, which was recently approved, demanding an immediate ceasefire, the establishment of an urgent mechanism to protect Palestinian civilians, rejecting the displacement of civilians and human rights defenders, and the provision of emergency humanitarian aid.

“Every moment of procrastination and passivity will cost the loss of more innocent lives, and action must be taken immediately,” he warned.