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Harbury denounced the Guatemalan government at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva in March 1996 and filed a civil-rights suit against officials in the CIA, State Department and National Security Council, according to her book...
...world community today, supported by numerous Security Council resolutions, affirms that East Jerusalem is occupied territory under international law and is part of the Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967. Israeli actions are in defiance of the Geneva conventions which prohibit settlement activity on occupied territory...
When Sapir went to the Credit Suisse bank in Geneva in 1947, she showed officials a deposit slip dated August 1938. The bankers were unmoved. One of them, with what she remembers as a starchy military bearing, told her that in order to claim the account she would have to produce a death certificate for her father. "I broke into tears," she says, "and I cried to him, 'You want me to get it from Hitler, from Himmler?' But it was no use." That was the experience of thousands of Jews...
...former United Nations interpreter, I remember the lengthy preliminary negotiations of a chemical-weapons-ban treaty at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Month after month and year after year, U.S. and U.S.S.R. chemical-weapons specialists endlessly discussed modalities of destruction of the chemical weapons stockpiled by both superpowers. What was obvious to me as a layperson was the extreme difficulty, complexity and danger involved in destroying chemical weapons. Safe destruction could take place only in complex and specialized installations...
Tadros and Al-Ississ further describe the opening of the tunnel door as a "change [in] the demographic nature of the city," illegal under Geneva Convention laws concerning "occupied territories." This is another ridiculous charge. The tunnel in question has been in place for 25 centuries and opening up its back door does not alter the city's demographics. Secondly, Jerusalem is emphatically not an occupied city. The whole of Jerusalem is the undivided capital of the sovereign state of Israel, as President Clinton himself has affirmed...