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Originally Posted by jfman
It’s literally considered occupied by the UN and the ICJ. Far from a trope it’s a widely recognised status by the international community. You of course know this, as I’m sure you know the pretence of the “international rules based order” relies upon believing it.
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It’s literally considered occupied by UNSCIIP, a UN committee. But then, another UN committee, the C-24, frames the Falklands as ‘colonized’, despite their never having had a native population prior to European discovery, and cites Argentina, a country that didn’t exist when English explorers first arrived at the islands in 1690, as a party to the dispute. So shall we stop pretending that committees of the UN are in any way immune from poliiticking? The entire UN exists to try to stop the world blowing itself up, at which singular purpose it has made at least some useful contribution. All else is theatre, for the benefit of lesser powers who see it as their only chance to give the middle finger to the greater ones.
The ICJ has never made a binding ruling on Israel and Gaza. It has issued a couple of advisory opinions - a distinction that usefully frames its operation in this area in similar terms to the way UN committees are given free rein to blow hard on whatever issues they like, because it gives developing nations and middle powers a sand pit to play in.