On July 22 the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that the general international law, UN Security Council Resolution #1244 or the Constitutional Framework did not prohibit declarations of independence in reference to the unilateral declaration of 17 February 2008 by the Kosovo Albanians. The advisory ruling was requested by the UN General Assembly at the request of Serbia. The ruling surprised many legal experts who didn’t expect such a [sic] straightforward language. It was expected that the ruling would allow all sides to save their faces [sic]. Invariably Serbia has been and continues to be the loser. An explanation is that the judges didn’t rule on the subject of right of secession from the Republic of Serbia. They have also sidestepped the key issue whether there is legal basis in international law for secession. At the same time the judges acted irresponsibly by ignoring possible consequences. The ruling did not say if Kosovo was a state. It didn’t say whether it was compatible with the international law if sovereign states recognize Kosovo’s independence. Outside the legal profession, the nuance between the declaration of independence and the secession will in all likelihood be ignored.
While the ruling is advisory and it is up to the UN General Assembly to act on it, it is an immeasurable blow to Serbia and the international law. This ruling essentially completes dismantling of the international law, which started on March 24, 1999 when the NATO bombs and cruise missiles started raining over Serbian targets, marking the first time in NATO’s 50-yr history that the alliance directed its military might—second to none in the world—at a sovereign nation, which posed no threat or even ill intentions to the U.S. or Europe, breaking the international law seven ways without approval of the U.S. Congress in violation of the U.S. Constitution. The same court hinted that the NATO aggression was illegal while denying Yugoslavia’s plea for a halt in bombing.
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Indeed, the United Nations are planning a resolution concerning Kosovo independence. Serbia quite naturally objects, pointing out that this would pave the way for a new model of secession, whereby ethnic minorities would simply unilaterally sign declarations of independence. Although the fate of the resolution is uncertain, thanks to the dhimmified West and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (except for Russia), it seems most likely — based on prior experience — that China and Russia will veto this piece of suicidal Western bleeding-heart stupidity, if and when it should pass.
It is worth noting, as Srdja Trifkovic has done, that Kosovo independence threatens Israel’s existence, not only by creating another Islamic state (run by the Kosovo Liberation Army‘s successor, the Kosovo Security Force), but by creating a precedent for Arab secession from Israel. Unfortunately, as Dr. Trifkovic pointed out in his outstanding Chronicles article Kosovo: A Threat to Israel’s Survival, the American Israel Lobby is preoccupied with obtaining Islamic brownie points for Israel by supporting Kosovo secession, and Israel itself has apparently taken in Albanian Mohammedan “refugees”. That these were “refugees” from Serbian self-defence against jihad does not seem to have occurred to the Israelis. It also does not seem to have struck the Israelis as relevant that Serbs saved Jews during WWII while under intense persecution from the Croatian Ustasha and Bosnian Mohammedan Handschar divisions of the Waffen SS. Nor has it struck the Israelis as relevant that Serbs have generally treated their Jewish population well, or that Croatia, which recognises Kosovo, has returned to Nazism, funded by Germany, a nation that has not forgotten it was started down its path to humiliation in two world wars by its intemperate reaction to the act of a Bosnian Serb acting as an instrument of Russian terrorists. A notable, welcome exception to this Israeli ship of fools is the Moldovan-born Israeli Foreign Minister and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party, Avigdor Lieberman.
The United States should have remained faithful to its Reagan-era policy of support for a strong, indepedendent Yugoslavia; instead, President Bill Clinton, Gen. Wesley Clarke, Gen. Colin Powell, and a coalition of gullible Jewish organisations, liberals, neocons, and malicious Albanian-American lobbyists linked to the KLA gave rise to the policy of collaborating with Germany to carry out a NATO invasion that ultimately destroyed the sovereign state of Yugoslavia.
According to the article A Perfect Failure, written by Michael Mandelbaum and published in Foreign Affairs in 1999:
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NATO waged the war not for its interests but on behalf of its values. The supreme goal was the well-being of the Albanian Kosovars. By this standard, although the worst outcome–the permanent exile of the Albanians from Kosovo–was avoided, the war was not successful.
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The basic precept of international law is the prohibition against interference in the internal affairs of other sovereign states. Without this rule there would be no basis for international order of any kind. But if the rule is inviolable, rulers can mistreat people in any way they like as long as the mistreatment takes place within legally recognized borders. Thus, in recent years international practice has begun to permit exceptions, but only under two conditions, neither of which was present in NATO’s war against Yugoslavia.
One condition is a gross violation of human rights. The Serb treatment of Albanians in Kosovo before the NATO bombing was hardly exemplary, but measured by the worst of all human rights violations–murder–neither was it exceptionally bad. Far fewer people had died as a result of fighting in Kosovo before the bombing started than had been killed in civil strife in Sierra Leone, Sudan, or Rwanda–African countries in which NATO showed no interest in intervening. Thus NATO’s war did nothing to establish a viable standard for deciding when humanitarian intervention may be undertaken. Instead, it left the unfortunate impression that, in the eyes of the West, an assault terrible enough to justify military intervention is the kind of thing that happens in Europe but not in Africa.
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Hashim “The Snake” Thaci, the current Prime Minister of Kosovo, is the former political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which has carried out the ethnic cleansing of Serbs from their ancient heartland of Kosovo. The KLA was originally Maoist, but is now Islamic– as is the case with many terrorist organisations that have turned from Marxism-Leninism to Mohammedanism or merged the two ideologies.
The United States is engaged in utter hypocrisy with respect to its professed fight against al-Qaeda, since the KLA — which the United States supports vigorously — has taken up the cause of bin Laden in the Balkans. It remains to be seen how this will turn out, but NATO, and more generally Western, involvement in the Balkans — and other places threatened by Mohammedanism — under Presidents Clinton, Bush, Jr., and Obama has done further harm to the endangered cause of freedom and security in Europe.
26th September, 2010 Update:
Serbia has effectively relinquished her claim to Kosovo in exchange for a better chance of membership in Eurabia.
9th October, 2010 Update:
To curry favour with the EUSSR, Serbia’s “pro-Western” government is staging a forced “gay pride” parade, complete with 5,000 police in full riot gear to save the few hundred “LGBT activists” from the people’s will. Srdja Trifkovic writes:
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On October 10 the first “gay pride parade” will be staged in Belgrade. The government has been promoting the event as yet another proof that Serbia is fit to join the European Union, that is has overcome the legacy of its dark, intolerant past. It has threatened the opponents of the spectacle with violence and judicial consequences. It has earned praise from all the right quarters in Brussels, Washington and the NGO sector for its “public commitment to … thwart any attempt to stop the march from proceeding to its conclusion.” There will be five thousand policemen in full riot gear marching with a few hundred “LBGT” activists on the day.
This is pure anarchotyranny in action. The current government in Belgrade is quite powerless to protect its citizens from harassment in the NATO-occupied province of Kosovo. It is powerless to prevent young jihadists from pelting with stones tourist buses from non-Muslim areas in the majority-Muslim region of Novi Pazar—not in Kosovo, mind you, but in “Serbia Proper.” It is powerless to stop rampant corruption by its own functionaries and politically associated cronies. It is powerless to halt open war-mongering by Islamic extremists such as Mufti Zukorlic in the Sandzak region in the south, or advocacy of ethnic separatism by Hungarian activists in the north. It is powerless to evict the Gypsy criminal underclass from usurping prime real estate in the nation’s capital. It is unable and unwilling to arrest and prosecute mafia bosses, privatization tycoons and foreign agents in its own ranks.
At the same time, the regime of Serbia’s Euro-Integrators led by President Boris Tadic is brutally efficient in clamping down on those “extremists” who dare protest the promotion of sodomy and who dislike the imposition of psychopathological “norms” imposed by the regime’s foreign mentors. It is good at normalizing criminality and criminalizing normality. Serbia will never enter the EU, of course, and it will never be absolved of its alleged sins harking back to the Milosevic era, but in terms of anarchotyrannical shackles it is eminently “Western” already.
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