Month: March 2024

weapons sales to Israel

Weapons Sales to Israel: Questions For Those Advocating a Ban

Mary Lawlor, a UN Special Rapporteur, recently wrote that there is no moral justification for continued weapons sales to Israel. She says that Israel’s conduct in Gaza is disproportionate and therefore illegal, cites numerous allegations of Israeli war crimes, and says countries which continue to supply Israel with weapons are failing in their obligation to …

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UNRWA: Illegal To Fund, Illegal Not To Fund. Can Both Sides Be Right?

Two lawsuits were recently filed about the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN body charged with assisting Palestinian refugees. One, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), seeks to compel Germany to give UNRWA money and says any country that stops funding UNRWA is complicit in genocide. The other, filed in U.S. District …

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