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by Louis René Beres
• August 24, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Any treaty or
treaty-like compact is void if, at the time of its entry into force,
it conflicts with a "peremptory" rule of
international law – that is, one from which "no derogation
is permitted." As the right of sovereign states to maintain
military forces for self-defense is always such a rule,
Palestine would be within its lawful right to abrogate any
pre-independence agreement that had (impermissibly) compelled its
own demilitarization.
Palestinian Authority leaders, official television,
schools and media outlets often display maps showing Palestine stretching
from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea. The maps do not show the
existence of Israel.
The Palestinian Authority (PA), now officially a Nonmember Observer
State to the United Nations General Assembly, will likely seek next month
a Security Council resolution favoring full Palestinian sovereignty,
probably as part of a cooperative Security Council initiative with
France. Following such an initiative, the current U.S. president, or the
next U.S. president could then be moved to accept the PA position on the
grounds of some prior Palestinian "demilitarization."
Unfortunately, any such acceptance would be without any legal or
practical value; therefore, no state of Palestine should ever be approved
because of any apparent promise of demilitarization.
by George Igler
• August 24, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Until a few
years ago, the unique recipe for secularism adopted by the French
seemed able to guarantee the assimilation of the country's
burgeoning number of Muslims, something now, by criminal and
terrorist activity in the country, proven a resolute failure.
- Next year's
election results might signal the beginning of the end for laïcité,
the long-held French principle of strict prohibition against
religious influence in the determination of state policies.
On August 3, French riot police dragged a priest and
his congregation from the church of St Rita in Paris, prior to its
scheduled demolition to make way for a parking lot. Front National leader
Marine Le Pen said in fury: "And what if they built parking lots in
the place of Salafist mosques, and not of our churches?" (Image
source: RT video screenshot)
The remains of St. Denis, the patron saint of Paris, who was
decapitated in the year 250 during the brutal pagan persecution of
Christians, lie north of the French capital in the basilica that bears
his name.
The church is historically noteworthy as the first proper work of
Gothic architecture, a style influenced by the Crusades. The basilica is
now a rarely visited Parisian landmark, lying as it does within the
profoundly Islamized enclave of Seine-Saint-Denis.
"You Christians, you kill us," were the words of the ISIS
knifeman who slit the throat of 85-year old Father Jacques Hamel. The
elderly priest officiating at the altar of the church of
Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray -- a mere three kilometres from the centre of
Rouen in Normandy -- was slain on July 25, as the two terrorists also
took nuns hostage. The terrorists were then shot by police.
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