NO JUSTICE FOR PALESTINE: neither the ICC nor the ICJ!
Live Interview, Dr. Frank Romano with Dr. Jacqui Basker!
To view it click on the image below. To hear Romano, slide the cursor about 1/3 into the program:
What really is the International Criminal Court (ICC)? What is the International Court of Justice (ICJ)? Are they doing anything to help Palestine?
Since the 1948 Nakba, Israeli agents and their US accomplices have committed war crimes against Palestinians. The ICC, has declared jurisdiction over the issue in 2021. It however has not made any other decisions nor engaged in tangible actions to stop or at least deter further commission of these war crimes. For example, no arrest warrants have been issued.
In 2022, Russia invaded and occupied parts of Ukraine. ONE YEAR LATER, in 2023, the ICC already issued an arrest warrant to President Putin!
Again, no arrest warrants have been issued against Israeli and American agents after OVER 75 YEARS of committing war crimes against Palestinians.
In addition, Karim Khan, the prosecutor of the ICC, recently said that he would deprioritize crimes committed by American forces in Afghanistan and focus on atrocities committed by the Taliban, etc.
Is the ICC overly political, partial (not impartial!!) and does it favor Israel and the United States? Has it failed Palestine?
Frank Romano, French and US lawyer, believes the ICC is all of the above. He will discuss this complex issue!
Dr. Frank Romano is one of the lawyers for the Palestinian people who filed a complaint (for war crimes, etc.) against Netanyahu, Gantz, Lieberman, Obama & Trump with the ICC (International Criminal Court) in 2021.
He will help answer the above questions and also give insight on the ICC and the ICJ and its recent decision (The International Court of Justice, a different tribunal than the ICC!). The ICJ’s ruling-regarding Israeli actions in Gaza-specified that they are capable of falling within the provisions of the genocide convention! What does that mean?
Zoom Palestine, Host Dr. Jacqui Basker- New York City, January 27, 2024
Live Video Conference: The Israeli Government promotes GENOCIDE in GAZA- with Frank Romano and Jacqui Basker
The zoom conference discusses the growing far right government, examples of government leaders using blatant “genocide language” when encouraging the extermination of Palestinians, especially in Gaza, etc. It also engages in a discussion about the Israeli Hannibal Doctrine, encouraging Israeli soldiers to kill Israelis held captive by Hamas.
January 20th, 2024, from Manhattan, New York
Frank Romano live SPEAKER in HUGE CONFERENCE on “The aggression on GAZA,” (ABOVE)
With well-known speakers like ILAN PAPPE, etc. BROADCASTED from PALESTINE.
Romano spoke on the following theme: “The ICC has FAILED PALESTINE.”
To listen to AUDIO version, click on the link below: Then click on download. Once downloaded, click on above right link. Then Guide the cursor about ¾ of the way to the right, and my talk will begin.
https://wetransfer.com/…/89655492843a95cd18f18d1…/8d2db6
Live Video: “ISRAELI ORGANIZED CRIME, Out of Control?”(BEL0W)
FRANK ROMANO discusses this with JACQUI BASKER!
To view it, click on this link:
Jacqui Basker wrote the following:
“You will find the session powerful and informative. The PowerPoint also explains the problem of extradition, where many criminals flee to Israel thus evading prosecution in other countries. Through interviews with ex-mobsters, law enforcement personnel, journalists and even a popular Zionist Israeli broadcaster, we learn much information about the danger that Israel brings to the world with its lenient attitude towards crime in Israel, and exporting its Israeli Mafia to the US and other countries. This side of Israel is skillfully hidden from most Americans, and it needs to be revealed. Arab Israelis also have organized crime rings as well, but the Arabs complain they are not protected by Israeli police.”
ISRAEL’s government has evolved into a state partially or fully controlled by a kind of mafia, like NAZI Germany, which dictated economic and political, policies while stealing from and executing people and imprisoning them often without, or with only quick, inequitable trials.
While Israel purports to be the only moral democracy in the Middle East, and Palestinians are demonized, Israel has actually become a haven for Jewish criminals from around the world. The Israeli Mob runs vast highly profitable criminal enterprises that include money laundering, drugs, prostitution, loan sharking, protection rackets, organ harvesting and fraud. Some members of government are directly linked to the mob which has great influence over the Israeli government.
For example, Inbal Gavrieli, the niece of one of Israel’s most powerful mob bosses, was elected to the Knesset as a MK (Member of Knesset) for the Likud party. Also, David Bitan, a member of the Knesset for Likud, was suspected of taking loans from members of the Jarushi crime family and, when he was unable to repay them, offering favors in exchange for forgiveness of the loans. In addition, the mob controls many lobbyists who have profound influence on Israeli politics. These criminal activities are even exported to the US and the Israeli Mafia flourished especially since Israeli criminals considered the US to be an easy prey for criminal activities.
In addition, Israeli banks discriminate against Arab citizens and often don’t give loans to Arabs, so they are forced to borrow at high interest rates from criminal gangs on the black market. It has been indicated that if the borrowers don’t pay, first they break their legs, [then] they kill him!!
Palestinians & Arab Israelis also are victims of Arab Mob activity, often not prosecuted by authorities. We have interviews with Arabs complaining about the lack of protection for the Arab community, by the Israeli police, just like the Jews were not protected by the Nazi police before and during World War II.
Would so many people continue to give Israel unbridled support if they knew about, not only . . .Israeli atrocities and war crimes against the Palestinians, and pushing Palestinians into refugee camps and ghettos, which are like prisons, . . .but also that its government is at least partially controlled by “the mob?”
Nazi Germany was also a state partially or fully controlled by a kind of mafia, which dictated policies, economic and political, ex-judiciously executed and imprisoned people, and pushed them into concentration camps and ghettos, especially the Jews. The Nazis also stole property from the Jews and others, included from people and institutions of conquered nations, etc.
Would so many religious people continue to support Israel if they knew that in more recent years, Jewish-American organized crime has reappeared in the form of an Orthodox Jewish movement?
Or would so many people support Israel if they knew it. . . like the Nazis against the Jews (noted above). . .takes over Palestinian land and property, ex judiciously executes Palestinians, women and children included, and imprisons many Palestinians and keeps them there without charges, without a trial and often without visits from a lawyer nor family?
As such, it’s amazing that so many people support Israel, for right or for wrong, in spite of its connection to organized crime and its treatment of Palestinians in a way similar to the way the Nazis treated the Jews during the Holocaust (Shoah).
Saturday, July 2, 2022, 12 pm/noon EST, Zoom Palestine, from New York City, USA and Paris, France.
Again, to view this live video, please click on the link below:
Frank Romano LIVE: talking about “MYTHS in the Creation of the STATE OF ISRAEL.” With host Jacqui Basker. To view it, click on the link below and then, to hear Romano, go to about 1/7th into the program.
Romano discussed the myth that between Jews and Arabs in Palestine in the 1947-48, conflict it was David vs. Goliath. In fact, the opposite was the truth! Jewish forces were far superior to the weak, unorganized and less armed Arab forces. The Arabs were clearly David, and the Jews were the ogre, the Goliath.
He also discussed the myth that the UN Partition plan of 1947 was equitable and a good compromise between Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land. He underlined that the plan clearly favored Jews and the Arabs were absolutely justified in rejecting it.
Romano also exposes the Zionist propaganda which depicts. . . its imposing of rule by force of arms. . . as self-defense, whereas it characterizes Palestinian resistance to be dispossessed of land and property . . . as Palestinian aggression or even terrorism.
He shed light on the popular Israeli propaganda LIE that the Arabs freely left their homes during 1947-1948. To debunk that propaganda, Romano cited the massacre of 250 Arabs, including women and children, by Jewish forces in Lydda (Lod) in July 1948. After that the Arabs were forced to leave their homes and undertake the infamous “Lydda Death March” (involving almost 80,000 Arabs from Lydda and surrounding villages). Many people who survived the massacres died on the death march due to lack of food and water. This led to one of the initial incidences of the NAKBA, the ethnic cleansing by Jewish militants of many Arabs by forcing them to leave their homes and villages.
In reality, the Arabs were forced to leave by Jewish troops, due to the violence and the massacres committed against Arab communities, which are much denied by Israel, even today!
At the end of the program, Jacqui Basker showed some artwork related to the “Key” the great symbol of return for the Palestinian people. From New York and Paris, France. Zoom Palestine, July 25, 2022.
Live Video: In honor of SHIREEN ABU AKLEH, Palestinian journalist murdered by Israeli forces in Jenin, Palestine. Featuring Palestinian Dr. Noha Khalaf with Frank Romano and Farid Bitar. Hosted by Jacqui Basker. They discussed the need for intellectuals, lawyers and poets to unite to pressure Israel to stop the persecution of Palestinians and end the occupation. To listen to it, click on the image below. From New York and Paris, May 21, 2022.
Dr. FRANK ROMANO interviewed, LIVE VIDEO, by Dr. JACQUI BASKER, with Palestinian Dr. RAMZI & Others.
AL-AQSA MOSQUE under SIEGE. ISRAELI POLICE & SETTLERS invade the HOLY SANCTUARY in JERUSALEM. Defended by PALESTINIANS.
To view this live event, click on the link below.
They were joined by Dr. Ramzi, a Palestinian from Bethlehem to discuss the implication of the recent attacks of the Al-Aqsa Compound, by Israeli agents. For the last week, Israeli forces have stormed the Mosque again, assaulting and blockading Muslim worshippers inside prayer halls to make way for Israeli settlers to enter the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) where the Al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques are located.
Dr. Ramzi, Jacqui Basker, Frank Romano and others discussed the extremist settlers’ actions and the threat to peace that these settlers present. Dr. Ramzi and Frank Romano pointed out the discriminatory impact of these attacks notably at Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem, which killed and injured many Palestinians, and that the Jewish settlers experienced almost no injuries especially due to their protection by Israeli police and soldiers.
They further discussed that the overall objective of the settlers was to normalize their almost weekly and sometimes daily storming of the Al-Aqsa compound. They added that a probable strategy of the settlers was to eventually either to take over the entire area or to provoke a partition of the Noble Sanctuary into two sections, one for Jews and the other for Muslims. Dr. Ramzi set forth that this would conform with the Israel objectives and policies clearly indicative of an Apartheid state.
Live from New York City, US, Paris, France and Palestine, April 23, 2022.
To view this live event, please click on the image below.
Dr. Romano was also the key speaker in an event about his activities as a lawyer for Palestine against Israeli war crimes before the ICC.
To view it, please visit Zoom Palestine: Frank Romano & the ICC.The presentation begins about one-fourth of the way into the recording.
ZOOM meeting with Frank ROMANO, “ZOOM-BOMBED” by ZIONISTS. (ABOVE)
Below is the link to the YouTube of Frank Romano’s ZOOM presentation last Sunday. He discussed his filing of a complaint with the ICC (International Criminal Court) against Israeli officials for having committed war crimes against Palestinians. Israel immediately contested jurisdiction of the court over the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Gaza.
The court recently granted jurisdiction so that the ICC prosecutor can proceed with the case. This is an important game-changer, and in response, Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is attempting to pass a law forbidding anyone to cooperate with the ICC and is pressuring its allies to block the investigation.Viewing what happened during the ZOOM meeting, you will see that ZIONISTS obviously fear the ICC decision.
It was “Zoom-bombed” during Romano’s presentation on the Israeli war crimes including the bombing of Gaza, and the ICC decision. According to event host Jacqui Taylor Basker: “Participants were viciously insulted, accused of anti-Semitism, and warned that “the goyum will be Jewish slaves.” These attacks were not omitted from this recording of the Zoom event so. . .SEE for YOURSELF!! Click on the following link below the picture. (Presentation starts about 1/4 of the distance from the beginning of the recording)
Dr. Frank Romano, in live video, takes you inside the Sabra & Shatila refugee camps (BELOW) in Beirut, Lebanon. Palestinian and Syrian refugees, and poor Lebanese talk about their lives there. One refugee, Akram, displayed bullet wounds from the 1982 massacre by members of Phalange, a predominantly Christian Lebanese party. Ariel Sharon, leader of the Israeli army was also responsible for the massacre. The Israeli army had surrounded the camp and allowed members of the Phalange to enter camps. Ariel Sharon was aware of the massacre but did nothing to prevent it!
The refugees live in disastrous conditions with almost no sanitary facilities, garbage collection, jobs, and little electricity. There is almost no possibility for the youth to succeed, almost no future! The refugees feel abandoned by the world and Romano, who lives there, confirms it. He is living in the camps to bring food, other necessities and moral support to the refugees living there. Palestine Zoom, hosted by Jacqui Basker (from New York City), August 14, 2021, Sabra & Shatila refugee camps, Beirut, Lebanon.
To view it, click on the link below:
Mosab Abu Toha, from Gaza, was the featured poet on Zoom Palestine. Frank Romano read one of his poems entitled “Drone” during the program. He dedicated the poem to Gaza. Zoom Palestine is hosted by Jacqui Basker. Mosab Abu Toha read sensitive, richly beautiful poems inlaid with tears and love, written in the midst of the Gazan catastrophe. June 6,2021, program broadcasted from New York City. To view it, click on the image below.
Frank ROMANO live VIDEO: Interviews Palestinian and others.
The attack of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli police and storming of the Al-Aqsa compound by Israeli settlers.
To view it, click on the image below, about 1/4 inch into interview:
Last Friday (April 15), IDF and Israeli police attacked Muslim worshippers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Two days later, Israeli forces stormed the Mosque again, assaulting and blockading Muslim worshippers inside prayer halls to make way for Israeli settlers to enter the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) where the Al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock mosques are located.
What is the goal of the settlers, to partition the Noble Sanctuary, like the Ibrahim Mosque in Hebron, building a temple there? Or, is their strategy to eventually remove all Muslims, destroy the mosques, build a synagogue there and totally control the area?
Dr. Frank Romano moderates an Interview with Badee Dwaik of Hebron, Palestine, Kelvinj Bown and Jacqui Basker.
Frank Romano Speaks from Bedouin Village: “Al Khan al Ahmar” after his release from Al-Moskobiya or Moskovia detention center and prison in Jerusalem.
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Romano speaks about the importance of “Al Khan al Ahmar,” as a center for all Palestinian and not just Bedouin resistance to the Israeli occupation. He also discusses his brutal treatment by Israeli agents and by Israeli police during his 3 days in prison. “Al Khan al-Ahmar” is a Bedouin village located between the Israeli settlements of Ma’ale Adumim and Kfar Adumim in the Jerusalem Governorate of the West Bank. Interview by Badee Dwaik, activist living in Hebron, September 22, 2018, “Al Khan al Ahmar,” Palestine.
Live VIDEO: The WORLD DISTRACTS, ISRAEL ATTACKS:
Dr. Jacqui Basker, excellent host of Palestine ZOOM, led by Dr. Frank Romano about:
the impact of the Ukrainian conflict on Palestine and the hypocrisy of the West.
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The world is distracted. Thus, it was foreseeable that the cowardly, vicious Israeli government, noting that the world is distracted by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, would use this opportunity to undertake increased violent attacks against Palestinians. For example, Israeli police and other agents have killed and injured several Palestinians since February 24th, the day of the Russian invasion.
Also, after the invasion, a 12 year old Palestinian girl at Damascus gate who courageously tried to defend herself against Israeli agents who severely beat her, and an 11 year old Palestinian girl was severely injured after being struck in the head by a sound grenade fired by Israeli police.
The world must end its hypocrisy ignoring the plight of the Palestinians while they condemn the attack on Ukraine while assessing severe sanctions against Russia. Sanctions against Israel are weak and ineffective in comparison. Finally, the ICC prosecutor has instigated an investigation of possible Russian war crimes while apparently ignoring or postponing the case already pending before the ICC against Israeli and American leaders for war crimes committed against Palestinians.
FRANK ROMANO interviewed LiVE by Jacqui Basker. About Palestinian prisoners.
This was in commemoration of the worldwide week of protests for Palestinians in prison.
Romano discussed the plight of Palestinian prisoners, especially those in “Administrative Detention.”
Those prisoners are arrested and imprisoned, sometimes for extended periods, without being informed of the charges, without trial and without access to lawyers and family.
Romano also discussed his arrest and imprisonment in the infamous Al-Moscobiyeh (The Russian Compound) prison in Jerusalem. New York City, Saturday, January 15th, 2022.
To view it, just click on the image below:
Dr. Frank Romano, in live video, takes you inside the Sabra & Shatila refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. Palestinian and Syrian refugees, and poor Lebanese talk about their lives there. One refugee, Akram, displayed bullet wounds from the 1982 massacre by members of Phalange, a predominantly Christian Lebanese party. Ariel Sharon, leader of the Israeli army was also responsible for the massacre. The Israeli army had surrounded the camp and allowed members of the Phalange to enter camps. Ariel Sharon was aware of the massacre but did nothing to prevent it!
The refugees live in disastrous conditions with almost no sanitary facilities, garbage collection, jobs, and little electricity. There is almost no possibility for the youth to succeed, almost no future! The refugees feel abandoned by the world and Romano, who lives there, confirms it. He is living in the camps to bring food, other necessities and moral support to the refugees living there. Palestine Zoom, hosted by Jacqui Basker (from New York City), August 14, 2021, Sabra & Shatila refugee camps, Beirut, Lebanon.
To view it, click on the link below:
Frank Romano in ZOOM meeting about Palestine, reporting from a Nakba demonstration in New Jersey against the forced expulsion of Palestinians at Sheikh Jarrah, the storming of Israeli police in Al Aqsa mosque attacking worshippers there, and the ruthless bombing of Gaza. 1st Photo: bombing by Israeli planes of Al-Zaytoun in East of Gaza City, on May 18. 2nd Photo: Romano during Nakba demonstration in Beita, near Nablus, West Bank a few years ago. New York City, USA, May 16, 2021. To view his report, click on image below, and move cursor to right about 1/9th and then 1/7th into the meeting.
Frank Romano (from Paris, France), panel member, of conference about Congresswoman McCollum’s legislation requiring Israel to stop war crimes, etc. against Palestine before Israel continues receiving financial aid from the US (such as for Iron Dome, see photo).
Zoom Conference hosted by Jacqui Taylor Basker. Other panel members are Sarah Petit (Jewish Voices for Peace), Naomi Foyle (professor) and Farid Bitar (Palestinian poet and activist). To view it, click on the link below:
McCollum’s legislation prohibits Israel from using U.S. taxpayer dollars in the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem for:
-the military detention, abuse, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention;
-to support the seizure and destruction of Palestinian property and homes in violation of international humanitarian law;
-or, to extend any assistance or support for Israel’s unilateral annexation of Palestinian territory in violation of international humanitarian law.
April 18, 2021. Zoom from New York City, New York, USA.
Zoom Palestine: Mc Collum Legislation to Protect Palestinian Children & Families
RACHEL CORRIE, an American activist, died in 2003 as she defended a Gazan home from destruction by an Israeli bulldozer. A ZOOM meeting took place on March 21st, in her honor, organized by JACQUI BASKER, with the participation of FARID BITAR and FRANK ROMANO. To view it, please click on the following photo and arrow below:
Rachel Corrie had a vision to help the Palestinian people from the ruthless demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza by the IDF and gave her life in pursuit of that vision. She knew she had to take the necessary risks and courageously stepped up in front of the bulldozer which crushed her into the Gazan earth.
Frank Romano in a Zoom PRESS BRIEFING interview, by “Foreign Press Association!” Interviewed by Ian Williams, President of the FPA, about the recent International Criminal Court (ICC) finding that it had jurisdiction over war crimes committed in Israel-Palestine. To view it click on the photo & arrow below:
The FPA reported: “In the face of continuing US and Israeli opposition to the move, Dr Romano will explain the fervor of that opposition, the legal background of the case, and what its consequences could be for Israeli and indeed Palestinian leaders.” The interview was organized and produced by Jamie McGeechan. New York City, March 12th, 2021, 5 pm EST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo6X7Um8hqI&feature=youtu.be
FREE PALESTINE ZOOM Frank Romano- invites you to view video of ZOOM meeting for PALESTINE-filmed from New York on Nov. 29th, 2020.
Meeting discussed the latest from Palestine, the need to continue the fight to free Palestine, the aborted convergence of Palestinian leaders, the normalization projects between the UAE, Bahrain, etc. and Israel, and the continuing demolitions of Palestinian homes, confiscation of property, etc. by the Israeli government. The latter is intent on de facto annexing Palestine and shoving Palestinians into Bantustans like South Africans under apartheid, and suffering the same dehumanizing and ideologically entrenched racial discrimination. Jacqui Taylor Basker organized, moderated and filmed it. Several activists were present, including Alan Baxter, Kelvinj Brown, Frank Romano and others. To view it, just clink on the link below (picture of Palestinian flag through which Israeli soldiers shot bullets and tear gas cartridges a couple of feet from Romano’s head during a demonstration at Qalandia Checkpoint, near Ramallah.): To view it, click on the link below:
Love and Terror in the Middle East, 5th Edition 