Ramsey Clark delivers a lecture in the IUG

The former United States Attorney General-William Ramsey Clark delivered on Thursday January 6, 2011 a lecture in the Islamic University of Gaza(IUG), the lecture entitled as “International Law and the Future of Palestine”.

The lecture was attended by huge masses in the Islamic University of Gaza including the President of the IUG Dr-Kamaline Sha’th and Head of the Public committee for breaking the siege Dr-Jamal Naji Al Khudari in addition to a number of Palestinian politicians, academicians and religious figures.

Among the audiences who attended Clark’s lecture was the Asian 1 convoy activists who came to feel solidarity with the Palestinian people, however, Clark has discussed many issues related to the International Law and the Palestinian right of determination and statehood.

Palestinian right of Resistance

During his lecture in the IUG, Clark asserted on the Palestinian right of resistance, adding that he and many people like him in the United States have defended the Palestinian rights and exposed the Zionist crimes against people of Gaza and West Bank.

He said that many American lawyers and politicians in the US stand strongly with the Palestinian people by the power of the International Law and the public support, and mentioned that many cases were filed against Zionist occupation leaders in the United States and other international courts , which are all accuse Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, but Clark pointed out that all these attempts have failed due to the lack of political support and power of the Zionist lobby in the US.

Clark accused Israeli occupation and its allies of terrorism for rejecting the Palestinian Democratic choice represented in the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas.

Hamas leadership is the legal

“Hamas leadership is the legal leadership that succeeded in the Palestinian Democratic elections and people needs a government that protect their children and women”, William Clark said.

In addition, he praised the leadership of Hamas as saying “pure and genius” for serving all kinds of Palestinian people to keep him steadfast and strong.

We defending the Palestinian case since the 1948 when Zionists attacked the homeland of Palestine and corrupted everything at that time, we doing our efforts by using the power of the International Law to let you live in one Palestinian country with full rights, we struggle in the United Nations and in many international courts to bring the Palestinian rights back, he said.

For the Palestinian unity, Clark mentioned that the American unity should be an example for the Palestinian people, he said we were separated but later on we united in one country.

Palestinian unity and Statehood

However, he said that Palestinian unity is essential and should take place among Palestinians, and without unity government things will not be better.

Eventually, and at the end of his lecture, Ramsey Clark hoped a Palestinian state for the Palestinians with full International recognition.

Its important here to mention that the Islamic University of Gaza was targeted many times as a civilian property by the Zionist occupation air forces during war on Gaza in 2008-2009, the Zionist targeting caused of huge destruction in the university buildings and properties.