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Thanks to Deep Dish TV , we now have a great HD quality 2 hours film about the New York session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine available online. Watch it, share it, use it! http://youtu.be/HLgzUuuq21g All the best Frank Barat Coordinator Russell Tribunal on Palestine . Follow us on Facebook . Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation book about the London session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine is out now. Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians my book with Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe, is out now. Read my blog here .

The London Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine By Frank Barat and Michael Mansfield QC Countless United Nations Security Council and General Assembly resolutions have been passed and violated; The Goldstone Report has been attacked and dismissed and the recent UNHRC fact finding Mission on the Freedom Flotilla incident, condemning Israel’s actions in the strongest possible terms, has been rejected as biased by Israel and was hardly mentioned in the higher spheres of the UN. The reason most often given to explain this lack of political action being that ‘it will harm the peace process.’ We are made to believe that the Israel/Palestine conflict is a never ending one and that, when it comes to this issue, International Law is irrelevant. But civil society knows better. This conflict is about International Law and nothing else. Not harming the peace process means not harming more than 17 years (from the Oslo agreement in 1993 until now) of settlement building, bombing, murder an...