The "Noachide Laws" are being pushed as fulfilling an injunction
to establish [International] Courts of Justice, which will come
in handy in trampling on the rights of sovereign nations and
their citizens, while purporting to deal with criminals.

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17 June 1998
 
STATEMENT BY AMBASSADOR ELYAKIM RUBINSTEIN ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ISRAEL
HEAD OF ISRAELI DELEGATION

Mr. President,

Let me open by extending to you our warm wishes for your success and
the success of this Conference. We would also like to express our
appreciation to the Government of Italy for hosting the Conference.

Some fifteen hundred years ago, the sages of the Talmud, the classic
Jewish code, sought to distil the moral essence of the Bible into
seven fundamental laws, as the basis of a universal morality. Six of
these so-called Noachide laws, applying to all mankind, were elementary 
moral prohibitions: not to murder, not to steal, and so on. But to these 
negative commandments was added one positive injunction: the commandment 
to establish courts of justice. Enforcement is essential, lest criminals 
evade their punishment.

Today, on the verge of a new millennium, we, representatives of the
nations of the world, gather in a effort to fulfill that injunction to
establish courts of justice and to see that crimes do not go unpunished.

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Source: United Nations - http://www.un.org/icc/speeches/617isr.htm


Cheers, Steve...

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