Posted on 04/07/2019 3:21:20 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
Struggling to rally right-wing voters before Tuesday’s elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he would start to extend Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank if given a fourth consecutive term.
Such a move has been ardently sought by the settler movement but resisted until now by Mr. Netanyahu, and by more moderate Israelis, as a potentially fatal blow to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the eyes of most of the world, it would also be a violation of international law that bars the annexation of land seized in war.
But Mr. Netanyahu trailed his main challenger, Benny Gantz, a former army chief of staff, in final polls of the campaign published Friday. And he has been frantically trying to mobilize conservative Israelis to vote for his Likud party rather than for other, more extremist parties whose leaders have joined his government but have often portrayed him as more of a brake on the settler movement than an accelerator.
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“ it would also be a violation of international law that bars the annexation of land seized in war.”
No, it wouldn’t. This is the NYT here so they’re simply lying to their readers, none of whom will actually look it up for themselves.
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More like to save Israel from the Iranians. The US pulling out forces his hand. My guess is Putin bared his teeth revealing his wolf teeth from his sheep suit.
I'm sure that law was adopted some time after the Second World War.
Believers don’t believe and therefore stumnle at the Word of God almighty who gave the land to Israel.And much more than that. God created the earth and man on it and its His.
Believers don’t believe and therefore stumnle at the Word of God almighty who gave the land to Israel.And much more than that. God created the earth and man on it and its His.
Build Baby Build... West Bank and then Gaza as well.
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International law does not recognize annexation of land seized in a war of aggression. However, Israel took the land while defending itself. International law recognizes the taking of land by a defender. Also, the sovereignty of the land in question has not been recognized since 1918. It was Ottoman, then British Mandate, then Jordanian occupied, presently Israeli occupied.
The winner will have only about half the seats needed so must build a coalition. The opposition that Bibi ‘trails’ has very little chance of getting enough seats to rule, and even by the poll numbers referenced here, Netanyahu will be PM again.
The MSM writes stories this way to misinform Americans not familiar with how Israel politics works.
Yes. I believe international law bans the seizure of land in a war if you are the aggressor - but if you are the country that was attacked and you come into possession of land in the process of defending yourself, then it’s tough toenails for the aggressor. The country that started the war shouldn’t have started it in the first place.
I just know that the NY Times makes sh*t up.
Absent a treaty, there is no international law. Only agreements between sovereigns actually control the interaction between those sovereigns.
International law is a European wet dream
I could understand and agree with an eventual “settlement” resulting in Israel annexing some land in the West Bank.
However, I would prefer to see it done as part of a Jordanian-Israeli addendum to their peace treaty, where Israel takes over some of the West Bank and Jordan re-annexes the rest and extends its peace with Israel to it - ending political control there by Fatah (majority of the PLO).
I think the best way to pacify Gaza is also via extension of Israel’s peace treaties. For Gaza that would be extending the peace treaty with Egypt to turn Gaza citizens into Egyptian citizens and then a joint Israel-Egyptian administration over Gaza (joint administration for security, for both Egypt and Israel).
And about time.
The NY Slimes is the most detestable rag that basically ignored Stalin’s Ukraine famine,Holocaust and has rarely ever taken the side of the USA unless it is to support a leftist/globalist agenda.
No matter what the Israelis do, it will be attacked — verbally by the world’s media and at the U.N., and violently by attacks from its Palestinian neighbors.
During the Nazi era, Jews were told to get into boxcars so they could be sent to concentration camps where they could be killed as the Nazis wanted. And the Jews complied. Today, the anti-Semitic world tells Israel not to fight back against its enemies and the Israelis again comply.
Maybe the upcoming election in Israel will be the time when the Israelis finally elect a leader who will have the courage to ignore the wishes of the New York Times and instead take action against its violent enemies so that Israel can at last live in peace.
Something like 20% of Israeli citizens are Arab Muslims.
If Israel annexes a large tract of the West Bank, they will be adding many more Muslims. And those folks are a lot crankier than the current Israeli Arabs.
What will this do for Israel’s security? And how will it effect Israeli elections once those Arabs become citizens?
> Jordan re-annexes the rest <
That would work for Israel. But why in the world would Jordan want to add a poor and radical minority to its country? If I were the king of Jordan, I’d say thanks, but no thanks.
Same goes for Gaza in regards to Egypt.
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