international law is on the side of the palestinians but the weight of the empire and that of zionist control behind the scenes make things much more complicated;

 One of the many disturbing revelations that have emerged since the current phase of genocide in Palestine began almost a year ago, is the degree to which U.S. and other Western politicians are prepared to dutifully stick to a script provided by Israel and its Western lobbies, whether the script is true or not. A case in point is the oft-repeated “self-defense” canard. 

After every successive war crime and crime against humanity perpetrated by Israel in its current genocidal rampage, the single most common refrain of Western government officials (and of Western corporate media) is that “Israel has a right to defend itself.”

No, it does not.

In fact, as a matter of international law, this is a double lie. 

First, Israel has no such right in Gaza (or the West Bank and East Jerusalem).

And, secondly, the acts that the “self-defense” claims seek to justify would be unlawful even where self-defense applies. 

The UN Charter, a treaty binding on all member states, codifies key rights and responsibilities of states. Among these are the duty to respect the self-determination of peoples (including the Palestinians), the duty to respect human rights, and the duty to refrain from the use of force against other states (where not authorized by the Security Council). Israel, for the 76 years of its existence, has been repeatedly in breach of these principles. .......more........