More than three quarters of a century later, and in characteristic snail-speed, Australia has finally woken to the fact that Resolution 181 will never see the light of day if the Palestinians and the Israelis are left to settle what should been resolved decades ago – the creation of two states, one Jewish, one Palestinian….
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Bridge Over Troubled Waters
A lone Japanese woman stands proud, a dignified presence in the multitude of excited and excitable faces. Her tin pot and ladle in tune to chants of free, free Palestine. Her mind is not on the extremists or the ideals of high justice, and humanity’s many treaties to which only a few adhere. Her mind…
The ICJ, Preah Vihear, and Human Life
The sea of people in Hyde Park told a straightforward story even to the unbothered and uninitiated. A number of “Our Temple” emblazoned placards cast an unequivocal declaration of the Cambodian’s propriety over the Temple of Preah Vihear. One man’s hurriedly made poster looked ready for the recycling but its holder stood posed and dignified…