Trump is keeping the promise made at San Remo in 1920. Why?, by Eugene Kontorovich (J. Post)
Jan. 4, 2020 Why the conclusions of a 1978 US State Department memorandum have been repudiated. A full century after the international community met in Paris and San Remo to establish a post-imperial world order founded on independent nation states, the international community has, under the leadership of US President Donald Trump, begun to fully […]
Read More →Israeli Settlements and International Law (Israeli Embassy in Nigeria)
From 2017: Attempts to present Jewish settlement in West Bank territory (ancient Judea and Samaria) as illegal and “colonial” in nature ignores the complexity of this issue, the history of the land, and the unique legal circumstances of this case. The Historical Context Jewish settlement in the territory of ancient Judea and […]
Read More →U.S. Policy Change on Israeli Settlements: A Long Awaited Correction – Dore Gold (Israel Hayom via Daily Alert)
Nov. 19, 2019 U.S. Policy Change on Israeli Settlements: A Long Awaited Correction – Dore Gold (Israel Hayom) The U.S. has corrected its Middle East policy in an important way. The past legal determination that Israelis deciding to reside in the West Bank are doing so in violation of international law has always been deeply flawed. […]
Read More →Must Read: International law and the State of Israel By Ted Belman (Israpundit)
Must Read: International law and the State of Israel By Ted Belman, Sept. 27, 2018 For thousands of years, nations came and went, pursuant to the rule, to the victor go the spoils. This included the right to rape the women, enslave the men, confiscate their wealth and rule the country as they saw fit. […]
Read More →Excellent Article: REFLECTING ON THE ‘O’ WORD: THE MANY SIDES OF THE ‘OCCUPATION’ By Ron Csillag (CJN)
Sept. 25, 2017 …”in order for the Fourth Geneva Convention to apply at all, there has to be both an occupying and occupied power — and both have to be sovereign states, according to Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas. “There is no state which claims sovereignty over the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem,””… […]
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