US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, visit Psagot Winery in the hills north of Jerusalem, last month. (photo credit: MATTY STERN/US EMBASSY JERUSALEM/FLASH90)
Posted on 12/24/2020 8:13:27 AM PST by SJackson
"Goods produced in some areas of the West Bank shall be marked as products of “West Bank” and goods produced in Gaza shall be marked as products of "Gaza."
US SECRETARY of State Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, visit Psagot Winery in the hills north of Jerusalem, last month. (photo credit: MATTY STERN/US EMBASSY JERUSALEM/FLASH90)
The Trump administration granted de facto recognition of West Bank Area C sovereignty when it issued labeling requirement that all goods produced in that region, either of Israeli or Palestinian origin, should be labeled "Made in Israel."
On Wednesday, the US Customs and Border Protection Agency published a notice to this effect to ensure that "country of origin markings for Israeli and Palestinian goods are consistent with the United States’ foreign policy approach."
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US Customs stated that "producers within certain areas designated in the Oslo Accords and the Hebron Protocol must mark their goods as ‘Israel,’ ‘Product of Israel’ or ‘Made in Israel’ when exporting those goods to the United States."
The 1993 and 1995 Oslo Accords which it referenced divided the West Bank into three sections: areas A, B and C. It placed Areas A and B under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority, while Area C was placed under Israeli military rule, including oversight of Israeli and Palestinian civilian life.
The wording of the customs notice would indicate that on issues of trade, Washington recognizes that Area C, which makes up 60% of the West Bank, can be considered Israeli territory for customs purposes, even though it is outside the sovereign boundaries of the state. The notice further indicated that areas A and B would be designated as the West Bank. Gaza would be marked as Gaza, according to customs.
"Goods produced in areas of the West Bank where the Palestinian Authority maintains relevant authorities shall be marked as products of “West Bank” – and goods produced in Gaza shall be marked as products of “Gaza," the agency stated, adding that the policy should go into effect within 90 days.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo first announced that the US had shifted its policy with regard to the labeling of goods produced in the West Bank, which had not allowed for Israeli settlement products to be marked as being "Made in Israel."
Latest articles from Jpost While on a visit to the Jewish state, he said that goods produced in West Bank settlements would be labeled that way.
On Wednesday, US customs issued an order that transformed his declaration into policy. It did so on December 23, the anniversary of the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which mandated that all UN member states must distinguish in their dealings between sovereign and non-sovereign Israeli territory.
The Obama administration abstained from that vote. The US is one of five members of the 15-member UN Security Council that have veto power over any resolution. The Obama administration, which until that moment had not allowed the council to pass any anti-Israel resolutions, chose to abstain rather than veto the text, by way of attempting to make its mark on the parameters for a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Since taking power just weeks later, the Trump administration has done its best to lessen the impact of that resolution, which promotes a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines, with east Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
THE TRUMP peace plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dismissed the pre-1967 lines as the possible borders of a Palestinian state. The plan it unveiled last January included a map that divided Area C in half. It designated the half of Area C where all Israeli settlements are located for eventual Israeli sovereignty, and half for a future Palestinian state. The customs notice goes well beyond the borders of the Trump map and allows for all of Area C to be considered Israeli.
The US and Israel suspended plans to annex half of Area C, which is the equivalent of 30% of the West Bank, in exchange for normalization deals with the UAE and Bahrain.
Since Trump's electoral loss in November, his administration has taken steps to shore up Israel's hold over its settlements in Area C.
The Trump administration's policy differs from that of the EU, which for close to two decades has differentiated between Israeli products produced over the pre-1967 lines and those produced within those lines, exempting them from its free trade understanding with Israel.
In 2015, the EU published guidelines advising its member states to place consumer labels on Jewish products produced over the pre-1967 lines to ensure that customers understood that these items were not produced in Israel.
The Palestinian Authority has gone one step further and called on the international community to boycott such products.
The UN Human Rights Council has advised that those who participate in the production of such products could be engaged in a war crime. In February, it published a black list of companies engaging in business with Jewish Israeli entities located outside the pre-1967 lines.
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all goods made in Samaria and Judaea should be labelled made in Israel, not just goods in a small portion of Israel’s territories.
this piecemeal approach only gives encouragement to the Arab Occupiers of Israeli lands. Their Occupation is evil (per their own Korans) and must be brought to a successful conclusion ASAP if peace is ever to be seriously possible
To know who rules over you....
Excellent
G-d.
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Merry Christmas to my Christian FRiends, and an easy fast and Shabbat Shalom to my fellow yidden..
BTW, did you listen to Steve Bannon's War Room today? They had Rabbi Aryea Spero on, and he was making a parallel between Chanukah and the fight against the election fraud, the small against the mighty, etc. So of course, someone came up with MAGABEES from this!
“So of course, someone came up with MAGABEES from this! “
Kol ha’kvod!
Thank You!
G-d Bless You!
Brilliant.
One Maccabee, it’s related in Josephus, attacked a giepant elephant, thinking its rider must be a high officer in the Greek army. He stabbed the elephant with his spear, it fell on him, and he died. The rider was just a non-com with a big elephant. There’s a lesson in that somewhere. I just recall the story.
I'm sure Israel is more than capable of shoring up its hold on the West Bank.
How?
stop paying them to murder innocent Jews and Christians, and maybe start paying them to return to Arabia, Iraq, Egypt...
call it Humanitarian aid..
many do want to leave and the PLO murder gangsters are preventing, blocking them...
for a start anyway that will help
Why should we pay for it? And almost none of them came from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, or Egypt. They were born and raised in the West Bank. They're already home.
we should not have to pay for it, we agree on that part anyway.
unfortunately, until PDJT we were paying for the Fakestinians Moslems’ continued Occupation of Judaea and Samaria including their terrorist murder attacks against innocent Christians Jews and Druze. Peaceful people will be permitted to remain but the murder gangsters and their supporters need to be removed one way or another, there appears to still be time for a “humanitarian” means is all I was suggesting. (It will be fixed at any event...)
There's a lot packed into that statement, and talk about timing.
For example,
Est 9.22. Like the days when the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor:
Blessings to you and an easy fast, my FRiend.
(And getting a renewed chuckle thinking about that article recommending Chinese take-out on Christmas Day, like the Jews.)
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Can it get any weirder? Well it's like they say -- an hour later, you're hungry!
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