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E1 not Israeli territory
Miriam Leedor
Published: 22.12.12, 14:50
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31. #26 and Miriam
Nitzan   (12.22.12)
Who are you to judge my people? a goy i gues... I hope Miriam is also one since if she`s jewish well may Haschem pay her every word back. If a goy speaks like a goy well he/she is a goy but if a jew speaks like a goy its a crime against Haschem.
32. From Mediteranean to Jordan river is for Jews
trump   (12.22.12)
According to international laws... We were fooled by Brits once by being denied eastern part of the mandate.
33. E1 territories
nathan phatti ,   Beit Shemesh, Israel   (12.22.12)
Your article talks of a palestinian people, there is no such thing. The boundries of Israel and a proposed state for indifinous Arabs, according to tyhe Oslo agreement is to be determined by negotiation. The Arab community have abregated teh oslo accords by ofnoring any negotiations and going to the UN where they have an Arab steamroller majority. If Israel takes that into account they are stupid, which they have shown not to be. They must learn to ignore the hot air generated by the media.
34.  .... #1
MONA ,   US   (12.22.12)
keep building ,palestinians need homes when the return
35. Author is sadly mistaken
Chaim Ben Kahan ,   Efrat, Israel   (12.22.12)
The area E1 is very much part of Israel. This was agreed to and understood when Rabin and Arafat signed OSLO. I also disagree as for me and many others who love the land of Israel, all of the disputed areas are part of Israel. Israel should annex these lands and offer the Arabs living on them civil autonomy.
36. A totally nonsense article! Palestinian land?
michael redbourn ,   Arad Israel   (12.22.12)
What is Palestinian land? I notice that there are no quotes from "International Law". Who does the West Bank belong to? The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the forcible transfer of people of one state to the territory of another state that it has occupied as a result of a war. The intention was to insure that local populations who came under occupation would not be forced to move. But the West Bank never legally belonged to Jordan, and certainly not to the Palestinians, who were never the sovereign authority in any part of Palestine. "The Jewish right of settlement in the area is equivalent in every way to the right of the local population to live there", according to Professor Eugene Rostow, former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.
37. #31 GOY, Jew; truth
Mary   (12.22.12)
Thanks for giving me names like GOY, a name which I dislike very much, however naming people as GOY exposes fully the narrow minds of people dividing human beings in categories and even using these categories for moral judgements which are in reality immoral to the bottom. By the way, where are youre legal arguments? Hashem? To me it sounds like using the ONE for very bad purposes.
38. Currently, Obama is not eligible to be
Paul ,   Jerusalem   (12.22.12)
the President, since he is not a 'Natural born citizen'. The legal system in American is IGNORING the laws of the land, because simply America can't part with their beloved messiah, in spite of what this means to the future of Democracy in America. For Israel to survive it must remove, ignore any laws that conflict with it's current reality. That reality is that the majority of the world wants Jews to abandon it's rights to its homeland, and no longer cares much about Israel's security needs. Any secular court that declares that Jews do not own their own homeland is fraudulent and and illegal Any legislative body that declares that Hamas, or the PLO, or Demons must be neighbors, is fraudulent. The laws and their supporting arguments against Jewish building is pointless in light of the dangers against giving anything to an Arab or International body.
39. B'Tselem
M.C.   (12.22.12)
For those who don't know. B'tselem is funded by the NIF (NEW ISRAEL FUND) whose main occupation is the slander and delimitization of Israel and support of Arab causes hostile to Israel. Make sure you never contribute a cent to this vile organization.
40. Excerise in naive futility,you are dreaming...
Jarred Stone ,   London UK   (12.22.12)
As soon as I started reading this article I sused that this would be written by one these anti-Israeli NGO's and I was right.BTW these are not conquered lands,these are lands that belong to the Jewish Nation,as they have been since year dot.Miriam Leedor can give back her house and whatever else she posses. to the palestinians.We will keep Judea and Samaria.
41. The High Court
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (12.22.12)
In each disputed case the High Court must make a ruling. I understood that Chairman Arafat and President Bush accepted that the settlement blocs like Maaleh Adumim would remain Israeli in any final settlement.
42. International Law - When does that apply?
manningb57-4 Israel ,   United States   (12.22.12)
It seems that international law only seems to apply to Jews any more. I was reading something earlier that said the EU and Russia were demanding face to face talks between Israel and Palestine. I keep asking myself; Does the rest of the world really think that If Israel were to give back all the land that was captured in 1967, that suddenly there would be peace between Jews and Arabs? Of course there wouldn't be, The Arab world would find something else to blame Israel for. Personally I do not understand why the rest of the world deems it their business what happens in Israel. Israel, is not suicide bombing children or blowing up buses. Hamas, has continuously called for the complete destruction of Israel, yet Israel does not make comments such as "All Muslims must die" or anything along those lines. The rest of the world needs to worry about their own problems and leave Israel alone.
43. This Op Ed Is Only News in Israel. Because
Doug ,   Rochester, USA   (12.22.12)
the rest of the world knows that International Law is clear that the entire occupation and colonization are BLATANTLY ILLEGAL. Even the very biased pro-Israeli U.S. State Department realizes this. Now that Palestine has been overwhelmingly voted statehood along pre-'67 borders, I just can't wait for their membership in the ICC and for the court rulings and PUNISHMENTS to follow. IDF soldiers are not EXEMPT from having to follow international law and will be held accountable for war crimes they commit.
44. Who is Miriam Leedor? The Palestine connection!
michael redbourn ,   Arad Israel   (12.22.12)
Well apart from her connection to B'Tselem, the only place that I could find any record of her was at the: Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database) Not surprising I guess.
45. The Author is racist
Jay Abouaf ,   Jaffa Israel   (12.22.12)
46. What about jewish lands confiscated by Arabs in...
The Analyst ,   Israel   (12.22.12)
Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia etc etc? Does it count?
47. israel is above internation/moral law.
@#$%   (12.22.12)
That all property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which consequently is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples. An orthodox Jew is not bound to observe principles of morality towards people of other tribes. He may act contrary to morality, if profitable to himself or to Jews in general.
48. Israel
John Jay ,   USA   (12.22.12)
isnt the "west bank" Israeli cities Judea and Samaria? correct me if im wrong
49. Judea/Samaria belong to Israel exclusively.
Chaim ,   Israel   (12.22.12)
This article is transparent rubbish. Judea and Samaria have belonged to Jews for more than3,500 years. Countless international law scholars have incontrovertibly proven Judea and Samaria legally belong to Israel. We aren't going to cede our rights based on politically motivated rubbish such as this article.
50. #43. In your dreams! The WB is disputed territory!
Harry Wright ,   UK   (12.22.12)
I bet you don't even know what that means. ONLY EXISTING STATES can be occupied. THAT IS LOGICAL!!! The WB never was and never will be a state. So just trot along and find that international law and post it for us. Failing that, you are just parroting a POSITION that has been conveniently adopted by "the rest of the world" as it seeks to give the Arabs a little something nah - a position that has NO FOUNDATION in international law. Do give us a reference to the international law of which you speak. SURELY, you can at least FIND IT on the net.
51. SHAME ON BIBI for not adopting the Levy Report which........
Menachem ,   Israel   (12.22.12)
explains the legal status of E1 and the entire West Bank. There is NO OCCUPATION. Everything is Jewish land. Frankly, this leftist Bibi really scares me.
52. #47. Calm down! You are hysterical and not making any sense.
Harry Wright ,   UK   (12.22.12)
53. Manmade so called International Law
Christian Schiffer ,   Sandefjord, Norway   (12.22.12)
Is illegal in Israel, read the Torah.
54. racist
michael Pielet ,   israel   (12.22.12)
Judea and Samaria belongs to the Jews and only the jews. All arab occupiers must be repatriated to their homelands. Take the writer with you.
55. when inĀ“tl law say all jews must die...
jorge ,   buenos aires   (12.22.12)
will jews commit suicide????
56. Actually it is legal to build on any land from whence rocket
Miron ,   USA   (12.22.12)
comes into sovereign. Those who start wars and lose wars have no argument over legalities. Madamme Leedor ignores Jordanian annex of 1957, and it's a convenient omission on behalf of those, who pretend that history happens for our benefit of study at school, rest is based on there wheeshazzzz.
57. Another extremist revision of the truth.
Sruly ,   Modiin   (12.22.12)
Just because B'Tselem says does not make it true. This far far left group has a very strange way of reading the law.
58. #47 you are repeating the mantra of others
solomon ,   bklyn   (12.22.12)
which is fake. It is meant to get your sympathy, knowing you would not deign to investigate on your own. And it worked.
59. Negotiated "Big" (Arab transfer) OR unilateral BIG Israel.
Jerry ,   The Netherlands   (12.22.12)
60. why ynet bother to print
yonathan haokip ,   israel   (12.22.12)
...such a baseless article of miriam who tried but fail to provide definite points to prove what she is trying to say. may be her supporter forced her ....miriam if you dont know anything please be quit and never write again unless you know what you are writing
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