Moncef Khane

Moncef Khane is a former official of the United Nations with a career spanning over 30 years in human rights, political affairs, peacekeeping and spec... ial political missions, the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council, and in the Executive Office of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He was a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, and holds masters degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and from the Kennedy School of Government.

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The ICC arrest warrant may encourage national courts to use universal jurisdiction to prosecute Israeli war crimes.

No provision of international law guarantees a state’s right to exist. Statehood is a political reality not a legal one.

FILE - In this Nov. 29, 1947 file photo, Secretary-General Trygve Lie, left, and Andrew A. Cordier, his executive assistant, check their lists following the vote on the Palestinian partition question by the United Nations General Assembly delegates meeting at the Queens Museum in New York. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, president of the General Assembly, awaits their verdict on the crucial vote to set up independent Jewish and Arabic countries. The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and the Queens Museum both say a ceremony will be held Nov. 29, 2017 on the 70th anniversary of the vote. The agreement comes after museum officials initially reneged on plans for the event. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)

If the court does not issue arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu and Gallant, it will lose its legitimacy.

People protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, at the headquarters of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has ongoing investigations into potential atrocity crimes carried out by Hamas in Israel, and by Israelis in the Gaza Strip going back to 2014, and which also covers the current conflict, in The Hague, Netherlands October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

The UN must urgently take decisive action against the latest Israeli affront on the entire international community.

A suspension of Israel’s rights and privileges by the UNGA would put much more pressure on it than Palestine membership.

"You are shredding the UN charter" says Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan while speaking during a special session of the UN General Assembly regarding the Palestinian bid for full membership to the UN, at UN headquarters in New York City on May 10, 2024. - A veto from the United States during an April 18, 2024 UN Security Council meeting previously foiled the Palestinians' drive for full UN membership. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Cutting funding for UNRWA at this time means furthering the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Palestinian children carry pots as they queue to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid shortages in food supplies, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah.

And President Biden from President Kennedy’s principled support for an occupied people’s struggle for liberation.

One only needs to look at the US carpet bombing of Cambodia.

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The ICC arrest warrants may encourage more courts to try Israeli war crimes

No state has an inherent ‘right to exist’, not even Israel

The ICC’s credibility is hanging by a thread

Under Israeli law, UNRWA is about to become a terrorist organisation

Ostracising Israel at the UN should be a priority

Defunding UNRWA is worse than collective punishment

Israel should learn from French mistakes in Algeria

Bombing Gaza won’t bring Israel victory

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