Topic

The Territories

Judea, Samaria and Gaza in law

124 essays

A Dangerous Silence

The author laments the Obama administration’s verbal attacks on Israel and compares the modern pressure on Israel to historical threats, calling for Jewish leaders …

A Genuine Nightmare

Beginning in 1917, the British Government ruled the land known as Palestine and ruled its inhabitants, both Arabs and Jews, for more than 30 years. That British in-depth …

A Nuclear Iran Could Become the First 'Suicide State'

President Barack Obama this week launched a special nuclear security summit in Washington finally acknowledges that Iranian threats to annihilate Israel are serious. …

A Secure Israel - A Condition for Peace

A strong Israel is a vital asset to the United States and the rest of the free world. To be a strong and dependable friend in a ‘rough neighborhood,’ Israel …

A Secure Israel is a Condition for Peace

Objectively, how vulnerable is Israel? To say that Israel is a tiny nation does not begin to describe the state’s predicament. Slightly larger than the Canary …

A Truce Agreement with Hamas following "A Failure worse than the Second Lebanon War"

On Tuesday evening, June 17th, the Egyptian government announced that a truce agreement between Israel and the Hamas in Gaza would commence at 6 A.M. on Thursday, June …

Aggression - The Illegal Use of Force

UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 have never branded Israel as an occupier or aggressor. As a matter of fact, the UN rejected every draft resolution that …

Annapolis - Leaving Democracy at the Door

The Arab League, which has systematically opposed and blocked peace efforts for 60 years and is to this moment in a declared state-of-war with Israel, and more recently, …

Arab League rejects Israel as Jewish state

A record of the League of Arab States’ rejection of Israel as a Jewish state, from the League’s founding in 1945 through the 2002 Beirut Declaration.

Arab Member of Knesset Rewriting History

(IsraelNN.com) Israeli Arab Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List/Ram Ta’al) attacked the State of Israel in a fiery editorial published in the …

Arab Unlawful Acts of Aggression in 1967 - Series 2

In June 1967, the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan attacked Israel with the clear purpose expressed by Egypt’s President: “Destruction of …

Arab-Israeli Peace Agreements

Between 1993 and 2001, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority (PA) signed six agreements with Israel and conducted countless meetings …

Arbitrarily Created Countries

The League of Nations unanimously recognized the Jewish people’s historical connection to Palestine in 1922, yet modern Arab states were arbitrarily carved from the …

Charters/Constitutions - PLO Charter

With great fanfare, the Palestine National Council (PNC) met in Gaza in the spring of 1994 to consider amending the PLO Charter, as Yasser Arafat had promised following …

Child Murder in the Village of Itamar

UN Security Council Resolution 1377 reaffirms its unequivocal condemnation of all acts, methods and practices of terrorism as criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of …

Combating Terrorism

UN Security Council resolutions and international law define crimes against humanity and impose mandatory counter-terrorist obligations on all states to pursue and hold …

Combating Terrorism from Gaza

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions and International treaties define crimes against humanity as the “participation in, and knowledge of, a …

Condi's Gift to Israel at 60

“Israeli and Palestinian negotiators should decide once and for all where to draw the line between Israeli and Palestinian territory, ending the argument over …

European Union - Jews are Here to Stay...

A corollary of the inalienable right of the Jewish people to its Land is the right to live in any part of Eretz Yisrael, including Judea and Samaria which are an integral …

Freeze Arab's illegal Construction First

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s calls for a freeze on Jewish construction in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem while Arab construction continues unfettered are …

Freeze on Jewish Construction - A Double Standard

Arabs claim that Jewish settlements “change the status” of the Territories and represent a distortion of the Oslo Accords. The phrase applies to acts that …

Gaza - Proportionality and Collective Punishment in International Law

To finance, recruit, train, house, feed, transport and murder Jews, is a collective Palestinian effort, requiring a collectively responsible response. In fact, poll after …

Gaza - Proportionality and Collective Punishment in International Law

To finance, recruit, train, house, feed, transport and murder Jews is a collective Palestinian effort, requiring a collectively responsible response. Poll after poll …

Gaza 2014: Proportionality and Collective Punishment

Examining Israel’s response to Palestinian attacks in 2014 and the legal principles of proportionality and collective punishment under international law.

Goldstone Mission Guilty of Hate Crime

Arab leaders will see the Goldstone Report as justification to continue to incite, inflame and encourage Palestinian Arabs to pin every problem they face as individuals …

Hardly an Excessive Demand

The weight of the evidence of so many scholars, observers, pollsters and monitors make it almost impossible to mitigate, not to mention ignore the enormity of finding a …

He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not. President George W. Bush on the Eve of his Visit to Israel

Next week, the President of the United States, George W. Bush will pay a formal visit to Israel and to the Palestinian Authority. On the eve of his arrival, the major …

Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Abuses Human Rights

Once again, a report has blamed an event almost solely on Israel while refusing to assign responsibility or even suitably investigate any other party. Unsurprisingly, a …

Illusion of Palestinian Compliance

Analysis of the apparent decrease in violence against Israel during the Palestinian Authority’s declared ceasefire, examining media coverage and documented …

Inappropriate Use of the Fourth Geneva Convention

Background The language of Article 49 was crafted in the wake of World War II and the Nazi occupation – an occupation that led to a war of aggression in which Nazi …