Posted on 03/10/2019 3:43:29 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
With Trump’s Deal of the Century in the offing, an anti-Israel legal opinion in the State Department has surfaced, which outlaws all Israeli communities over the Green Line. CUFI, which speaks for 4 million Christians, as well as the RCA and ZOA, are urging the Administration to rescind the controversial document. The fear is that Israel will be in a disadvantageous position if the "Deal of the Century" is published and an official pro-Arab legal opinion, negating all settlements, remains intact. Pro-Israel organizations call for the opinion, also known as the Hansell memorandum, to be rescinded, while BDS organizations are relying on it. The controversial legal opinion is even starring in a Palestinian-American lawsuit filed against Sheldon Adelson and other prominent pro-Israel Americans. Since the opinion, authored by the late Attorney Herbert Hansell at the request of his superiors in the Carter Administration, has not been revoked or updated, it is still valid.
Distinguished legal experts in the West, as well as the State of Israel, are adamant that Israel’s settlements (communities in Judea-Samaria) are legal. But the Hansell memorandum, penned by the legal adviser to the State Department under President Carter, unilaterally adopts Arab legal arguments, bolstering an anti-Israel position according to which all Israel’s settlements in Judea and Samaria are actually illegal.
Arutz Sheva has learned that both Jewish and Christian groups in the United States are calling for the opinion to be rescinded, given that leading legal experts support Israel's legal position. In addition, the chairman of the Israeli Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, MK Nissan Slomiansky, appealed....
Zalman Shoval, former Israeli ambassador to the United States, recently revealed that a second American legal opinion was penned by a government legal adviser, which differs from the negative opinion of the State Department.
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Precursor to the Jared “Peace Plan” and the elimination of Israel in conjunction with Israeli Liberals.
I get the Zionist isn’t used here in a derogatory way in the title, as the article seems Pro Israel.
But is there a word for people who advocate for any other country? England advocates? Taiwan advocates?
Why not just say “Prominent Americans that support Israel” in this article?
Because many times the word IS used in a derogatory way.
Ugh. I wish we had Gorka and Bannon instead of Jared and Ivanka. Some family ties have been President Trump's Achilles heal.
My "peace plan" is to tell the Arabs to pound sand.
Referring to them as “Arabs” belies the truth of the matter: they are Arab Mussulmen who conciser themselves the Master race - is where Hitler got the idea from. There are Jewish Arabs, Christian Arabs an others. Mussulman Arabs should always be identified as such. The Sunni Mussulman goal is absolute power (the connection point with US socialist democrats) over all of the human race and the 12er Shiia (Iranian) goal is the extinction of the human race. Both groups, no matter how nice they seem in person, are certifiable
“Precursor to the Jared “Peace Plan” and the elimination of Israel in conjunction with Israeli Liberals.”
Sounded like Jared’s work. What the hell is taking Mueller so long to arrest him and get him out of the way?
They play on the same team ...
So WE, over HERE, can outlaw ISRAELI settlements over THERE?
We’re truly getting too big for our own britches.
Who would have thought it possible from the "State" Department? /sarcasm
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Givin the fact that the opinion, contrary to the opinion of all post Carter Presidents, is now being used by the BDS movement among others, invalidating it is common sense. The President probably needs a team to expose opinions/policies like this contrary to administration positions.
That’s probably what’s protecting him. Think about it, why would a guy named ‘Mueller’ prevent someone else from permanently taking care of the ‘Jewish problem’ in the Middle East.
“Palaeos” incoming to attack “Zionists” in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
Carter was our first Islamic president. F^&K HIM!
The Deal of the Century is just some rope-a-dope -- the Arabs will overwhelmingly reject it, or any other negotiated settlement.
Or they’ll go along with it and have a photo op with Bibi and Trump or Jared or both, and then start building up a body count, and protesting how powerless they are to stop their extremists.
They will always revert to type. And, Oslo had the full backing of a bunch of mediating countries, President Trump's Deal of the Century has been rejected by the EU (and he had to know that would happen). The terrorist leadership will stonewall, continue to age and die, and in the meanwhile the rank and file jihadists and wannabees will continue to feed themselves to the guns of nations they're trying to overthrow, or their sworn enemies, other jihadists.
“The terrorist leadership will stonewall, continue to age and die,” and be replaced by their nephews. Fixed it.
Their nephews are either living the good life on the PLO dole (and probably in Europe) with no desire to change, or they're dying in jihad.
Never dying in jihad. When the Grand Mufti croaked, his nephew Yassir Arafat got into the family business. When he was gone, Abu Mazen took over (not a nephew, a cousin or something). When he dies, there’ll be a nephew raring to go. All the money, all the power. All the bodyguards you can roger. Who can say no to that.
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