With thanks to Arlene Kushner for this informtion
With Prime Minister Netanyahu scheduled to meet with President Trump in a few days time, it is expected that the
“settlements” will be one of their subjects of conversation. And so, it is a
certainty that we are going to be encountering a good deal of media
disinformation about the rights of Palestinian Arabs to a state.
Here are a
few salient facts to help set the record straight:
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The call by the PLO for
a state that would extend from Jordan’s border to the 1949 armistice line is
constructed out of thin air and flies in the face of historical and legal
realities.
• The 1949 Armistice line has
no legal standing at present. There
is no way in which it can be said to be the western “border” of a Palestinian
state.
• There is a doctrine of customary
international law known as Uti Possidetis Juris. It states that
emerging states presumptively inherit their pre-independence administrative
boundaries. This means Israel has the borders of the Mandate, which immediately
preceded it. That border is along Jordan on the east and includes Judea and
Samaria as part of Israel.
• The Oslo Accords (II) put no
restriction on Israeli building in Area C (which is where all
Israeli building is done). The Accords stated that the issue of “settlements”
would be resolved in final negotiations.
• The Oslo Accords, which in any
event have been materially breached by the Palestinian Arabs, speak about “a
permanent status” agreement to be arrived at via bilateral negotiations. The Accords say nothing about a full
and sovereign Palestinian state to be established in Judea and Samaria.
It is certainly theoretically
possible that Israel, in honest negotiations with the PLO, might opt to grant
the Palestinian Arabs a self-governing autonomy in a defined area within Judea
and Samaria – a region to which Israel has solid claim.
At present, even this is not
a viable alternative, not remotely a possibility, given the belligerence, the
maximalist demands, and the fostering of terrorism of the PLO.
For more detailed
information:
http://israelrights.com/en/position-paper-israels-rights-in-the-land/
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