Comments on: Iraq to sue Israel over removal of Tammuz nuclear reactor

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:11:03 +0000

Ah, but international courts will deny Israel’s standing to countersue, since it is an “Apartheid State” dontcherknow, and thus has no rights at all, at all (for example, everybody denies Israel Article 51 rights of self-defense under the UN Charter). In actual fact the mere demonstration that Iraq was at war with Israel should put this silly suit to rest. Civil legal cases have no authority over the combatant states during a war. And in a court of equity Israel would win hands down. I do not think there is any such court in international affairs but you never know what the academic nitwits are trying to invent nowadays.

This reminds me of the silly assertion the Egyptian government made that they were going to sue Israel for the stuff taken by the Children of Israel before they left Egypt during the Exodus. Whereupon some Israelis said they’d countersue for reparations for 400 years of slavery in Egypt. If I recall correctly, that shut up the Egyptians good and proper.

By: aunursa

aunursa — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:19:08 +0000

No problem. Israel will file a countersuit for damages, as well as pain and suffering, from the 1991 scud missile attacks.

By: SnoopyTheGoon

SnoopyTheGoon — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:26:52 +0000

Status of limitations re Israel? Come on, Joshua, some people still want to take us to task for dinosaurs’ extinction, not to mention Jesus, crusades, the black plague etc.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:07:25 +0000

Why isn’t there some statute of limitations involved here, even granting that this is so-called “international law”? The reactor was destroyed in 1981. The Iraqi government knew it had been destroyed at the time and which country had destroyed it. If they were going to sue Israel, shouldn’t they have done so a long time ago? What were they waiting for?