Impact of the UN and International Law on Israel

The link is to a speech given by a Dr. Pieter H.F. Bekker to the Peace Palace at the Hague on 6/11/2004 about the International Court of Justice's advisory opinion against Israel's segregation barrier. Dr Bekker claims to have had no prior knowledge of the Israel/Palestine nor a specific stance on it. That makes his damning indictment of Israel all the more fascinating:

In stark contrast to what Israel has claimed, and the media have reported, the ICJ case was not about Israel’s right to protect itself through a fence, or barrier, or wall, which it is entitled to do as a sovereign state. Rather, the case was about the course, or the route, of the Wall, running for 99% outside recognized Israeli borders and inside Palestinian territory. For this reason, the Wall is an illegal measure purportedly to protect Israelis against suicide bombings. Those suicide bombings rightly were condemned, in no uncertain terms, in not one but two paragraphs of Palestine’s written statement to the ICJ, and again during Palestine’s oral intervention before the Court.