Judea, Samaria and Gaza in law
124 essays
“War is not politics by other means”, but “represents a catastrophic failure of political skill and imagination.” Kofi Annan, Secretary-General. …
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 …
In urgent matters of national survival and geopolitics, words matter. The still generally unchallenged language referring provocatively to an Israeli …
The Arab objective in the 1967 Six-Day War was to overrun and eradicate the Jewish state. That objective is very much in the minds of the majority of Palestinian Arabs - …
Draft resolutions attempting to brand Israel as an aggressor and illegal occupier after the 1967 Six-Day War were all defeated by either the UN General Assembly or the …
Resolution 242 was adopted after the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel was attacked by and captured territory from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. However, the resolution never …
The League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine established the Jewish legal right to settle throughout western Palestine between the Jordan River and the …
Successive Israeli governments have failed to recognize the supreme importance of the “Mandate for Palestine” [24 July, 1922] a historical League of Nations …
Herbert Louis Samuel’s 1921 report as British High Commissioner for Palestine documented how a Jewish National Home was internationally guaranteed through the …
As recently as the mid-20th century, when Arabs last controlled parts of Jerusalem, they exhibited no respect for the Holy City. In 1948, when Jordan took control of the …
As recently as the mid-20th century, when Arabs last controlled parts of Jerusalem, they exhibited no respect for the Holy City. In 1948, when Jordan took control of the …
Ever ask yourself why during the 30 year period—between 1917 and 1947— thousands of Jews throughout the world woke up one morning and decided to leave their homes and go …
A UN coalition sought to rewrite history by labeling the Territories ‘Occupied Territories,’ thus endowing them with an aura of bogus statehood and a false …
19 years after signing the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty and 19 years after his tragic death, Yitzhak Rabin was lauded by President Barack Obama as a man of peace and …
The Arabs invented a special national entity in the 1960s called the Palestinians, specifically for political gain. They brand Israelis as invaders and claim the …
American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has publicly canvassed the possibility of considering alternative solutions on the future sovereignty of the West Bank as the …
What kind of society consciously and purposely sacrifices its own youth for political gain and tactical advantage? Suicide bombers are an escalation of a small-arms war …
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its Advisory Opinion in the matter of the construction of the “wall” in Judea and Samaria, cites the right to …
The Palestinian claim to ancient and indigenous peoplehood fails to stand up to historic scrutiny. Most Palestinian Arabs were newcomers to British Mandate Palestine, …
Calls for a freeze on Jewish construction in disputed Territories - while Arab construction, which far exceeds Jewish development, continues unfettered - are clearly …
“Neither customary international law nor the United Nations Charter acknowledges that every group of people [Palestinian Arabs included] claiming to be a nation has …
** Mr. President: On June 4, 2009 in a Keynote Address to the Muslim world delivered from Cairo you asserted that it is “undeniable that the Palestinian people - …
Trump Should Ask, Who is Humiliating Whom? On April 19th 2017, two Palestinian sisters from Gaza were traveling to Jerusalem for one of them to receive cancer treatment, …
Education Minister Professor Yuli Tamir proposed adding ‘pre-1967 borders’ to Israeli textbooks. This essay examines the legal and historical context of these …
Excerpts from Rabin’s last public speech to the Knesset (October 5, 1995) revealing his vision of a Jewish state, settlements, a unified Jerusalem, and security …
On December 13th 2010 the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council issued a press release on the subject of its meeting held on the same day to discuss the Middle …
In March 2002, the Arab League met in Beirut and adopted a two-state solution proposal, based on normalization of relations with Israel in exchange for a complete Israeli …
In the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, after three Arab armies converged on Israel’s borders, even the United Nations recognized that Israel’s pre-1967 …
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 …
Even before the Mandate for Palestine was published in July 1922, the British Government found Jewish settlement to be legal and legitimate. In an Interim Report on the …