“The paradox is that Israel, for 75 years has cruelly ruled Palestine as a jailor, oppressing ten million civilians behind barbed wire who in as many ways as they could, resisted,” says Simon Baldock, a security analyst based in Tel Aviv and former IDF military officer. The international court of justice recently, in July, agreed with that opinion. See the ICJ video below.
“Israel is not defending itself, it is provoking wimpy, weak, attacks from oppressed Arabs and using these attacks,like a girl slapping a soldier’s gob in self defence of her child sibling and IDF calling it an insurrection, as excuses for the extermination of Palestinians and the stealing of their resource-rich Mediterranean lands and their natural resource rights like natural gas and oil.”
The resistance that Israel is fighting and killing is based on little girls pushing back. These little girls shame the men with their fierce resistance to Israel apartheid crimes. Six years ago in Palestine, the face slap that shook the world and the girl who kicked the hornet’s nest over and over again.
The world is still not paying much attention to the plight of the Palestinians in the Israeli occupied territories of the Middle East. But Ahed Tamimi since her twelfth birthday, and even before, began to shine a light on herself as a passionate proponent of freedom. She today at 23 years of age was held in prison for slapping the face of a trespassing Israeli Occupying Forces soldier, at her house after brother Mohammed was shot in the face. “She has been hailed by pro-Palestinian activists,” says Wikipedia, as a symbol of Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation. Her memoir “They Called Me a Lioness” was published in 2022 (Amazon.com: They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom).
That child, since 12 years of age has not committed a crime but she has spent a lot of time as a hostage of Israel. She has acted in self defence by slapping a soldier in the face pursuant to numerous physical attacks on her female self and attacks on her family members including younger siblings one of whom was shot in the face. Her younger sibling was about to be assailed when she slapped a soldier and identified herself as her sibling’s protector. She had the lawful right to do that though she was beaten and imprisoned.
Long ago, it was settled that resistance and even armed struggle against a colonial occupation force is not just recognized under international law but specifically endorsed.
In accordance with international humanitarian law, wars of national liberation have been expressly embraced, through the adoption of Additional Protocol I (Volume 1125) to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (pdf), as a protected and essential right of occupied people everywhere. – Stanley L. Cohen
“The Israeli governments exploit this essential right of occupied people by saying that the act was initiated in the first part, and it is only responding. In the case of the 7 October attacks, every word that came from Benjamin Netanyahu’s mouth in his address at the UNGA29 this week was a lie. That is why the entire UNGA79 officialdom walked out on him,” said Israeli security analyst, Mr. Simon Baldock.
Mr. Baldock explains the oxymoron. Israel is not defending itself but is seeking excuses for the extermination of Palestine in order to steal its land and exterminate the occupants by slaughtering the women and children. For example, he said, the 7 October 2023, attacks on Israel were a prepared false flag exercise that was pushed and provoked intensely for a couple years repeatedly by Israeli forces constantly attacking the holy al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem and events like killing Hamas-shero Shireen Abu Akleh, a renowned voice of truth of the Palestinians with al Jazeera. (Shero of 2022-2023 is posthumously a Voice Of Truth movement)
Oct. 7 attacks on Israeli soil centered on retaliating to horrendous Israeli violence at Al Aqsa Mosque (file photo from YouTube video capture) which might have even gained a retaliation from Türkiye say well-placed confidential sources in Ankara had not the IQB finally responded. Art, cropping, enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Finally, Hamas retaliated.
“The actions of Hamas militants in the IQB are often slow in reacting to Israeli abuse against the Muslims and Christians of Palestine,” noted Mr. Baldock.
“The provocations by Israel are heinous but rarely reported in the media except by people like Shireen Abu Akleh, hence Netanyahu repeatedly ordered her killed. Even the slightest response from the Palestinian side, such as a kid throwing a stone are reported by the Israeli and American media all over the world. Outrage over the killing of Ms. Abu Akleh in West Bank was extreme. Even her funeral which was attended by thousands, was attacked by the IDF and her casket dumped into the street by soldiers and Israeli police storm troops,” recalled Mr. Baldock.
At the time, Dr. Nassima al Amouri, a friend of Shireen Abu Akleh said that, “Shireen Abu Akleh once again, at her own funeral, fell to the ground, the first time when an Israeli assassin’s bullet struck her head below her flak-helmet sporting the word “Press” and the second time in her casket. The humility of this act of beating on pallbearers by Israeli forces spells out a flagrant attack on press freedom and the worst form of misogyny, killing her and then desecrating her coffin. Israel has become one very sick nation.
“We have watched as hundreds of good journalists try hard to be the replacement for the ‘Voice of Truth’. It’s an example that caught on. In journalism courses around the world, teaching masters and professors teach ‘Shireen – the Voice of Truth’“, explains Dr. Nassima al Amouri whose team of midwives and nurses are in Gaza trying to relieve the burden from hospitals by running mobile birthing clinics around the occupied territories of Palestine.
The al Aqsa Mosque, under attack by Israel, upsetting the Muslim world.
As Israel announces that it has killed Hassan Nasrallah, FPM sought commentary from its contacts.
A source within the IRGC said he has been called to a meeting and cannot speak long. He said that Hezbollah will continue regardless of who Israel kills.
A contact with U.S. Homeland Security was unable to comment until brought up to date internally on the matter.
Sources in Israel confirmed the news that the IDF has proof of the man’s death. A source within the U.S. State department said, “Just Punishment!”, repeating a remark of Jake Sullivan, a person accused of complicity in Genocide.
The “just punishment” remark was also made by Mr. Nasrallah.
When many people were killed and thousands injured earlier this month when pagers and walkie-talkies sold into Lebanon exploded over two days across Lebanon Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Israel of orchestrating the attacks, claiming it had crossed “all red lines” and vowed retaliation, promising “just punishment.”
Hassan Nasrallah was a Lebanese cleric and the secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militant group. Born into a Shia Muslim family in the suburbs of Beirut in 1960, Mr. Nasrallah has served as leader of Hezbollah for over thirty years.
“Israel became a fascist state which runs Palestine as an internment camp. I grew up in that environment and in the footsteps of Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu (March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) who was once a hero for his command of the raid on Entebbe.
“I served for years in the Israeli Defence Forces,” continued Mr. Baldock.
“It was an honour to me. My father, my grandfather, my sister Beverley, we all served. That is how I was raised. Yoni hated the Arabs. We did too, every minute of my life since infancy through bar mitzvah and becoming a son of commandment.
“I see with sorrow how a part of the people still clings to hopes of reaching a peaceful settlement with the Arabs. Common sense tells them that the Arabs haven’t abandoned their basic aim of destroying the state; but the self-delusion and self-deception that have always plagued the Jews are at work again.
“It’s our great misfortune.
“They want to believe, so they believe. They want not to see, so they shut their eyes. They want not to learn from thousands of years of history, so they distort it. It would be comic if it weren’t so tragic.”
— Lt. Col. Yoni Netanyahu, IDF, 1973
“But as I traveled the world,” reminisced Mr. Baldock, “and across the Middle East as a private security officer for humanitarians,” he continued, “I learned something different in 2014. I sat with a librarian (center in image below), a Syriac orthodox priest who governed the library at the Dayro d-Mor Mattai (Monastery of St. Mathew) on high side of mount Alfaf, in northern Iraq, 20 kilometers northeast of the city of Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq, which was then occupied as part of the Islamic State Caliphate where my parties-under-protection were part of the Mosul Underground Resistance. This was a learning time for me as we mounted a defence for the Syriac arch-bishops in Erbil and in Montreal against an acute threat from ISIS in May and June of 2015.
IMG-20150610-WA0004.jpg (1280×720) (reaperteam.org) Defending Mar Mattai – @TheReaperTeam Security Contractor
Former IDF officer explains what he learned about Israel from ancient Mesopotamia
“We, the Israelis threw the first stones at the Palestinians and conducted ourselves as fascist barbarians just like we did in ancient times and just as the Nazis did in 1939 through 1945 and until this day.
“We have been and are now an apartheid state fencing in the people of Palestine, starving them, killing the teachers, journalists and authors who tell the world what we are doing, I thought Yoni was a hero, but I came to wonder if he was a terrorist,” continued Mr. Baldock.
Mr. Baldock’s assertions have been firmly confirmed by the International Court of Justice which in July 2024 declared that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory “is unlawful”, and that “all States are under an obligation not to recognize” the decades-long occupation.
The ICJ concluded that Israel’s continued presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is unlawful and that it is under an obligation to bring to an end its unlawful presence “as rapidly as possible”.
Israel is also “under an obligation to cease immediately all new settlement activities and to evacuate all settlers from the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the ICJ opinion reads, as well it says, “reparation for the damage caused to all natural or legal persons concerned” must be done.
“Israel and other UN Member States must immediately comply with the authoritative determination by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory,” independent human rights experts said on 19 July 2024.
The landmark ruling of 19 July 2024 declared that Israel’s occupation of the Gaza strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is unlawful, along with the associated settlement regime, annexation and use of natural resources. The Court added that Israel’s legislation and measures violate the international prohibition on racial segregation and apartheid.
The International Court of Justice demanded Israel to end its occupation, dismantle its settlements, provide full reparations to Palestinian victims and facilitate the return of the displaced people.
“The advisory opinion reaffirms peremptory norms prohibiting annexation, settlements, racial segregation and apartheid, and should be seen as declaratory in nature and binding on Israel and all States supporting the occupation,” the UN experts have said.
The Court refuted the notion that Palestinian self-determination must be achieved solely through bilateral negotiations with Israel – a requirement that has subjected Palestinians to violence, dispossession and rights violations for 30 years.
“The Court has finally reaffirmed a principle that seemed unclear, even to the United Nations: Freedom from foreign military occupation, racial segregation and apartheid is absolutely non-negotiable,” UN experts said.
They welcomed the Court’s recognition that converting occupation into annexation by demolishing homes, denying housing permits, and land grabs, violates the jus cogens norm prohibiting the use of force to annex occupied territory.
“May this historic ruling begin the realisation of the Palestinian people’s fundamental right to self-determination, and peace premised on freedom for all,” the experts said. The ICJ advisory opinion will serve as a critical tool to restore respect for international law, especially at this crucial moment when the Court is also considering Israel’s alleged violations of the Genocide Convention, the experts added.
The United Nations’ experts recalled that the ICJ opinion was delivered 20 years after the same Court ruled on the illegality of Israel’s wall, an authoritative ruling that was largely disregarded by Israel and UN Member States, allowing impunity to reign supreme.
“Since the Court ruling on 19 July, Israel has intensified attacks on the civilian population in Gaza and their natural resources,” the UN experts warned.