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Again and again we are forced to read the same nonsense: "...Israel will be forced to stand before a new international and legal situation. Every house that will be build in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank will be considered illegal according to the Fourth Geneva Conventions". Even Prof. Eugene Rostow (ever heard about him Mr. Barnea?) the author of UNSC Resolution 242, that became the cornerstone for an Israeli-Arab settlement, explained that the Fourth Geneva Conventions are not applicable to Israel. That Israel has the same right to settle in the so-called territories as it has right to settle in Haifa or elsewhere, according to Article 80 of the United Nations Charter. Article 80 that reaffirms all the League of Nations' decisions, including, of course, the Mandate for Palestine, voted unanimously by all the 51 League's members, the 24th of July 1922. A Mandate that gave legal power to the San Remo decision to create a Jewish State, and gave the Jews the irrevocable right to settle between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, including the Golan Heights, a right that became International Law and guaranteed by the Anglo- American Treaty of 1924, what became the Law of the State in the USA! The "West Bank", including East Jerusalem, were never part of Jordanian real estate, and never a "High Contracting Party" (an independent state), as formulated in the Geneva Conventions, but are and remain a residual part of the Mandate for Palestine. The only country that may pretend legal ownership on this territory, is Israel. For the "Left", all this should have remained classified material, just to prevent by all means that the public would suddenly realize, that a Jewish State could have been established in the years thirties, what would have prevented the Shoah. But even before San Remo and the League's Mandate, the Left majority in the Zionist Movement proclaimed that its aim wasn't a Jewish State, that the Jewish State had never been part of the Zionist program, but just the title of Herzl's pamphlet (Read introduction to the two-volume "History of Zionism", published in 1917 by Nahum Sokolov, who became the Chairman of the World Zionist Organization in 1931). Having kept all this classified, and preventing its disclosure today, is adding insult to injury!
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