Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

by Tuvia Tenenbom

Can non-Swiss be on the board of ICRC? “No.” According to ICRC, are Cyprus or Tibet, to cite two examples, occupied territory? “In principle the ICRC will first and foremost share its legal reading bilaterally and confidentially with the parties in a conflict. . . . The ICRC could later communicate its classification publicly.” Would it be correct to say that the ICRC publicly declared the 1967 areas captured by Israel as “occupied” while it did not do the same with Cyprus and Tibet? “I do not have anything to add.” Was the ICRC the first to determine that territories captured by Israel in 1967 are “occupied territories”? “No. The first to consider these territories occupied territories was probably the IDF.” In conversations with the Israeli army, the IDF has disputed this assertion. Yet, leaving this aside for the moment, was the ICRC second in declaring the areas in question as “occupied”? “Unfortunately for your continuing requests, I have to put main priority on other issues now.” Not including emergency expenditures (such as floods, earthquakes etc), could you please supply a list of the top-ten countries where ICRC is operating for the past ten years, in terms of moneys spent? In response, I’m advised to find out on my own. In one of the e-mails from the ICRC I’m also told that the ICRC shares its analysis “with state parties to the Geneva Convention and they follow our reading of the law, with the exception of Israel.” You don’t need to be a lawyer to understand wh...