Reply #77: That Is Not Quite What The Ruling Says, Sir [View All]

[The Magistrate]

What the ruling says is that claims that the course of the barrier are required by considerations of self-defense are insufficient to outweigh the various harms done to the members of the occupied populace directly affected by it. It does note that the self-defense provisions of the U.N. Charter do not apply, since the threat being defended against arises from the territory under occupation, and not from a foreign state, but goes on to recognize, in paragraph 141, that Israel is indeed under attack and that states have both a right and a duty to protect their people from attack.