State Dept.: Israeli Settlements Are ‘Illegitimate'

CNS News ^ | 11/15/2013 | Patrick Goodnough

[little jeremiah]

This gets worse and worse. My absolute loathing for this administration has no limit and gets worse daily.

[quadrant]

The settlements would be illegal (at least in my opinion) if a peace treaty existed between Israel and the Palestinians. But since only an armistice exists between the two parties, Israel is free to establish settlements (within reason, of course) wherever it wants in Judea and Samaria.

[SJackson]

A peace treaties exist between Israel and Jordan, which controlled the West Bank and Egypt and Israel, Egypt having controlled Gaza. Israel returned the Sinai, Egypt abandoned Gaza, Jordan abandoned the West Bank. The armistaces, there were three, were signed by Israel and respectively Syria, Jordan and Egypt. No such thing as palestine or palestinians involved, in 1948 the Jewish population were the palestinians. Arab palestinians were invented by Arabs in the early 1960s. It's abandoned territory.

Obviously a treaty between Israel and the Palestinian Authority or the PLO, the representatives of the population per the UN, would make the distinction moot.

[SJackson]

Valerie worked on property, mostly of the slum variety, in Chicago. She knows how to work zoning in Chicago.

[quadrant]

Agree. The notion that Israel is encroaching on Arab land in Judea and Samaria is absurd

[GOPJ]

Within the revolving door that is the State Department - how many of these folks give ‘speeches’ in the ME?