Posted on 07/10/2012 11:48:11 PM PDT by tedbel
The legal tsunami gathering strength in Israel will soon engulf the world. A report is soon to be released that says, the Fourth Geneva Convention (FGC) does not apply to Judea and Samaria aka West Bank and that Israel has every right to build settlements there.
PM Netanyahu set up the Levy Committee to investigate the legal status of unauthorized West Bank Jewish building. The Committee was headed by Supreme Court Justice (ret) Edmund Levy. It included Tel Aviv District Court Judge (Ret.) Tehiya Shapira and Dr. Alan Baker an international law expert,
The Committee reviewed legal briefs from right of center groups but also from far left groups such as Peace Now, Yesh Din and Btselem. Its 89 page Report was submitted to PM Netanyahu a few weeks ago and is now under review by his Ministerial Committee on Settlements. Though the Report has yet to be formerly published, the contents are already well known.
It found that the settlements are not illegal. To reach this conclusion it first found that the Fourth Geneva Convention which applies “to all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a High Contracting Party” does not apply to Judea and Samaria because "Israel does not meet the criteria of 'military occupation' as defined under international law” … as "no other legal entity has ever had its sovereignty over the area cemented under international law,"
Furthermore it found that there was no provision in international law which prohibited Jews settling in the area.
The UN and the EU have for decades repeated the mantra that the land is occupied and the settlements are illegal, both pursuant to the FGC but there has never been a binding legal decision on which they based their assertions.
(Excerpt) Read more at israpundit.com ...
The findings of the distinguished jurists correspond with international law. Those who have objectively studied the issues long ago came to the very same conclusion. Much credit for Israel for following the law and making sure that whatever it does is proper.
Israel has dragged its feet for way too long. The land in the so-called “territories” is Israel’s fair and square according to international law. Israel is long overdue in regularizing the status of all its people and land in accord with international and Israeli law.
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. . . “and the EU”? No; the EU keeps hammering on about all Israeli settlements being illegal.
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“The legal tsunami gathering strength in Israel will soon engulf the world.”
So sayeth HaShem, Lord of Lords and Host of Hosts.
“and the EU”? No; the EU keeps hammering on about all Israeli settlements being illegal.”
If Europe wasn’t obscenely wrong in its pronouncements in the 1930s, there would not have been a World War or a Holocaust. If European leaders had any sense of reality, its countries would not be turning in front of their faces into oppressive societies last seen in the 7th century.
A report is soon to be released that says, the Fourth Geneva Convention (FGC) does not apply to Judea and Samaria aka West Bank and that Israel has every right to build settlements there.IOW, the Zero regime is about to repudiate the FGC.
Maybe the EU will redirect their efforts towards getting the Russians to leave Kaliningrad Oblast now?
(For the record: Russia shouldn’t have to. But their legal position in Konigsberg is more tenuous that that of Israel’s in the West Jordanian territories.)
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I've seen no indication the US agrees with this position.
Someone please tell Obama he was wrong about the whole speil the last four years. All them “illegal settlements” crapola was such a nasty smear of lies. Still is. Will he eat his BS? Apologize?
Does it mean Zero is taking back his comment about Israel returning to the 1948 lines?
tedbel, you can’t post from a blog to this General Interest Forum, it has to be posted under the Forum: “Bloggers & Personal”.
You are also reposting the same news story, using the same link, that you posted July 4th, titled “Israelis have a legal right to settle all Judea and Samaria”:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2902725/posts
You made up the title to this post.
If you go to the link, where does it say the US AGREES SETTLEMENTS ARE NOT ILLEGAL ???
Your referenced article doesn’t say that anywhere.
What are you doing? Consider yourself reported to the Mods.
To prevent duplication, please do not alter the published heading. Thank you.
What was the point of just correcting the entirely fraudulent title?
This post needs to get pulled as it is an exact duplicate from 7/4/12, same poster:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2902725/posts
It’s also against FR rules to post from a blog to News/Activism, General Interest Forum, it has to be posted under the Forum: “Bloggers & Personal”. Blogs are not news. If they offer news they have to cite the original source. If so, post the original source directly to News/Activism and start a thread.
Cloaking the same article in a blog and reposting the blog is just a cheap way of running the same article over and over again and wasting space on FR with tired, rehashed stories.
Quit whining like some little girl, pull up yer big girl panties and move on. Yer making a spectacle of yerself. Some of us (maybe a good many of us) missed it first time around.
I know no reason why the US should be consulted. They’re not the boss of us.
I hope you didn’t expect me to give you a reason, I have none. I’m embarrased the US has backed the longstanding European position that Euros can tell Jews where they can and can’t live.
Brian Are you the Judean People's Front?
Reg F--- off.
Brian What?
Reg Judean People's Front. We're the People's Front of Judea. Judean People's front, caw.
Francis Wankers.
Brian Can I join your group?
Reg No. Piss off.
Brian I didn't want to sell this stuff. It's only a job. I hate the Romans as much as anybody.
PFJ Sssh. Ssssh, sssh, sssh, ssssh
Judith Are you sure?
Brian Oh. Dead sure... I hate the Romans already.
Reg Listen. If you really wanted to join the PFJ, you'd have to really hate the Romans.
Brian I do.
Reg Oh yeah? How much?
Brian A lot!
Reg Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f---ing Judean People's Front.
PFJ Yeah
Judith Splitters.
Francis And the Judean Popular Peoples Front.
PFJ Oh yeah. Splitters.
Loretta And the Peoples Front of Judea.
PFJ Splitters.
Reg What?
Loretta The Peoples front of Judea. Splitters.
Reg We're the Peoples front of Judea.
Loretta Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front.
Reg Peoples Front.
Francis Whatever happened to the Popular Front, Reg?
Reg He's over there.
PFJ [To the old man.] SPLITTER!
I’m embarrased [sic] the US has backed the longstanding European position that Euros can tell Jews where they can and can’t live.
Me too. G-d has already decided where the Jews will live. [Sidebar: west of the Euphrates to the Red Sea]
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