Archive for December, 2009
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Israel’s settlements are legaL
Sunday, December 20th, 2009“The distinguished Anglo-Canadian jurist, Professor Gerald Adler, considers this very assumption. In a painstaking analysis of Jewish claims stretching back to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Treaty of Sèvres of 1920 and the Palestine Mandate of 1922, Professor Adler demonstrates that Jews have a right to “close settlement” on the West Bank, and that this right was in fact specifically preserved, and carried forward on the demise of the League of Nations, through the deliberate wording of article 80 of the founding charter of its successor body, the United Nations organization.”
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How the world was nearly foxed by Goldstone
Monday, December 14th, 2009“The Israeli Foreign Ministry accused the authors of the Goldstone report report’s trying to instigate a “political campaign against Israel” and operating from a “one-sided mandate.” However it missed noticing a hole so wide and so deep that one must marvel at the lack of sagacity on their part as well as on the part of Judge Goldstone and his fellow commissioners.”