DECLARING YOUR GREATNESS

DESTRUCTIVENESS OF JUDGMENTALISM

KEY QUOTES: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? - Jesus (John 7:1-3)

"When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.” - Earl Nightingale

"You are embarking on a great crusade." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. President

KEY ISSUES/EVENTS: Destructiveness of Judgmentalism

The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) has enacted two bills to end all operations by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) within Israeli-controlled territories, including East Jerusalem. With overwhelming support, Israel's Lawmakers Voted on Monday 28 October 2024 to pass the Legislation, which restricts UNRWA’s access to Palestinian areas under Israeli control. The decision has been met with strong opposition from International Allies, humanitarian organizations, and the United Nations, which argue it will drastically impact essential services for millions of Palestinian Refugees.

The Legislation, supported by Members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and the right-wing opposition Yisrael Beitenu party, include provisions that cut all Israeli government contact with UNRWA, which has provided food, Education, and medical aid to Palestinian refugees for over 70 years. The Knesset barred UNRWA from operating in Israel or areas under Jerusalem’s control, would likely make the Gaza Strip and West Bank - even the areas under autonomous Palestinian self-government—inaccessible to the agency. The measure also withdraws UNRWA’s tax exemptions, closes its East Jerusalem offices, and bans entry permits for its staff, further restricting the agency’s ability to function in the region. Israeli Officials boasted the Decision is a necessary security step, alleging that the UN agency supports Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that has ruled the Gaza Strip for 18 years. Hamas quite correctly is classified by the US, the EU, and Israel as a terrorist organization.

That said, the Foreign Ministers for Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom expressed “grave concern” over the legislation, saying that the legislation will have “devastating consequences” in Gaza in particular. Further, the International Prosecutor could seek arrest warrants for Crimes Against Humanity against Netanyahu and other Members of the Israeli government. And it would be legitimate.

SVC has discussed the destructiveness of Judgmentalism for over a decade now. Judgmentalism can create a toxic cycle that's difficult to break. The conflict between Jews and Palestinians is easily the longest conflict in history with its origins going back to the Book of Genesis. Inflicting greater pain upon innocent Victims such as the Refugees will only cut the wounds deeper; make resolution of the conflict increasingly implacable; and could lead to Armageddon.

The silence of the United States is troubling in many respects, not the least of which because of the imminent of  Final Kibosh of the American Organized Terrorist Opprobrium. America has not met its responsibility to protect its own Citizens under its own laws, let alone International Law.

The current situation in the Middle East reminds many of the Rwandan Genocide three decades ago when the International Community failed to act. As a reminder:

COMPILATION OF UN REPORTS & OTHER NEWS SOURCES 1994-2007      

The Rwandan genocide in Africa occurred between 7 April and 15 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this period of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi minority ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa, were killed by armed Hutu militias.

In 2003, retired Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, who was force commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), claimed that United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan was overly passive in his response to the imminent genocide.

In his book. “Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda” (2003), Dallaire asserted that Annan held back UN Troops from intervening to settle the conflict and from providing more logistical and material support. Dallaire claimed that Annan failed to respond to his repeated faxes asking for access to a weapons depository; such weapons could have helped Dallaire defend the endangered Tutsis.

In 2004, ten years after the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed, Annan said: "I could and should have done more to sound the alarm and rally support."

In his book “Interventions: A Life in War & Peace,” Annan again argued that the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations could have made better use of the media to raise awareness of the violence in Rwanda and put pressure on governments to provide the troops necessary for an intervention.

Annan explained that the events in Somalia and the collapse of the UNOSOM II Mission fostered a hesitation among UN member States to approve robust Peacekeeping Operations. As a result, when the UNAMIR mission was approved just days after the battle, the resulting force lacked the troop levels, resources and mandate to operate effectively.

Responsibility to Protect

Following the failure of Annan and the International Community to intervene in the genocide in Rwanda and in Srebrenica, Annan asked whether the International Community had an obligation in such situations to intervene to protect Civilian populations.

In a speech to the General Assembly on 20 September 1999, "to address the prospects for human security and intervention in the next century", Annan argued that individual sovereignty - the protections afforded by the Declaration of Human Rights and the Charter of the UN - was being strengthened, while the notion of State Sovereignty was being redefined by Globalization and International co-operation.

As a result, the UN and its Member States had to consider a willingness to act to prevent conflict and civilian suffering, a dilemma between "two concepts of sovereignty" that Annan also presented in a preceding article in The Economist on 16 September 1999.

In the March 2000 Millennium Report to the UN, Annan asked: "If humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenica – to gross and systematic violations of Human Rights that affect every precept of our common humanity?"

In September 2001, al Qaeda made a surprise attack on the World Trade Center, not three miles from the United Nations Secretariat in New York City, and the Pentagon. It was the first successful mainland attack on the United States in 187 years.

That night, on 11 September 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush described his counterterrorism policy this way: “The search is underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I've directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.”

The last line in the Statement that would become known as the Bush Doctrine first appeared in the Doctoral Dissertation of Phillip B. Sutton, a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Oklahoma. OU President David L. Boren, a former U.S. Senator and Intelligence Committee Chairman, passed a copy of the manuscript of Sutton's book based on his Dissertation, “The Arena: A Guide To America's Future” to CIA Director George J. Tenet.  The two men just happened to be having breakfast when the 9/11 attacks occurred.

“The Arena” was scheduled to go to press three days later, but never did. The years delay in publication caused the book to be retitled “Revival of the American Dream” and Sutton refined many of his Proposals, particularly in Foreign Policy.

After the Rome Statutes went in force on 1 July 2002, the International Criminal Court was created and the International Community began creating enforcement mechanisms for the new International Laws.

Currently, 124 of the 193 nations recognized by the UN have Ratified the Rome Statutes. After Sutton's Declaration in Africa in December 2022 that the International Tribunals and the UN would no longer allow nations who have not ratified the statutes or have UN Security Council veto to skirt International Law and that all nations are required to comply with the same, ratification has become an academic notion. The ICC arrest warrants against Russian President Vladimir Putin on 17 March 2023 are meant to emphasize this policy. Russia has neither ratified the Treaty and has a UNSC veto. Mr. Putin will be brought to justice.

Annan and Sutton were familiar with each other as both did their part in getting Nelson Mandela and other members of the Africa National Congress freed from prison in South Africa. One of the ironies in all this is Mandela was sworn as the first President of South Africa elected by all the people on 10 May 1994, right in the middle of the Rwandan Civil War.

Annan read “Revival” and saw merit in the Sutton Doctrine. The doctrine mapped out a five-step process to allow the International Community to remove despotic National Leaders and their regimes and replace them with democracies, just as what happened in South Africa.

This obviously supported Annan's concept that national sovereignty should mean nothing when those in power are abusing their own people and violating their Human Rights.

Sutton makes the bold statement in “Revival” that the real reason for the American Revolution was King George III was committing what we would consider today “acts of war” against his own people. The British Monarch was a Constitutional Monarch which meant there were legal and constitutional limits on his power he would not accept and the Colonists simply called him on it.

In 2005, Annan asked Sutton to write the Responsibility to Protect Statutes. Annan included the doctrine of “Responsibility to Protect” in his report, “In Larger Freedom.” When the UN General Assembly endorsed that report in 2006, it amounted to the first formal endorsement by UN Member States of the doctrine of Responsibility to Protect.

The Enforcement of the Responsibility To Protect Principle is what is key. When the "powers that be" are allowed to mercilessly oppress and kill innocent Human Beings, it only lessens Humanity's value and degrades all of us. There is no way this kind of behavior can be condoned by the International Community. There should be no disagreement here, yet look what Israel is doing.

Fighting back against Hamas to defend itself is one thing, but Israel making all Palestinians responsible for Hamas' attack is disgraceful and immoral. Further, such behavior invites further reprisals against Israel. When will it all end? 

Some time ago, SVC's President suggested that Israel was proving the al Qaeda was right about how the USA has treated Palestinians and thus justified 9/11. Americans also have ostensibly approve al Qaeda/organized terrorism's successful infiltration by standing idly by and allowing allow that has happened to SVC's President. If this is not true, then why have two million Americans ganged up on SVC's President like they have? All they have said about him is false, but all the terrorism is quite true and has happened.

Indeed, the traitors/terrorists have become so uncertain about their fate that the sudden disappearance of the luggage so SVC's President can do complete his work has sent them into an absolute tizzy. The traitors/terrorists have based all their hopes of getting away with what they have done on exposing why the luggage has disappeared. They think SVC's President is trying to hide it but nothing can be further from the truth! It is their third stage psychotic denial run amuck! 

The traitors/terrorists are only exposing the fact that they cannot be allowed to be at-large in Civilized Society any longer. They have been allowed to hurt too many people for too long and getting away with it. Thank you so much for exposing that much for the International Community's crusade to put you and all terrorists down!