Green-Lined - The true illegitimacy

Yisrael Medad
Green-Lined
JPost
27 October '11

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/true-illegitimacy

The JPost reports now, that US Ambassador Dan Shapiro has requested of Israel to temporarily freeze settlement construction in order to promote peace talks with the Palestinians. This request has been denied.

We should recall that earlier the United States had criticized a Likud-sponsored plan to legalize rogue settlement outposts, saying it does not recognize the "legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity", a semantic term that the Obama-led Administration has consistently hammered away at, while confusing, purposefully I can only presume, the public with a closely related other term as here in a State Department statement:

"We oppose any effort to legalize settlement outposts, which is unhelpful to our peace efforts and would contradict Israeli commitments and obligations"

There is nothing illegal in a Jewish presence in the territory international law recognized as the geographical area that was to become the reconstituted Jewish national home, especially as all decisions and agreements between 1915 and 1924, including the Anglo-American Convention and various US Congressional resolutions and Presidential signatures, never mentioned Arabs in connection with this territory. The term was always "non-Jews".

In other words, in addition to the legal opinions of the many, including Rostow, Schwebel, Baum and others such as...Madeline Albright:

In an interview with Matt Lauer on NBC’s The Today Show on October 1, 1997, Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright related to building in Yesha and said: “I wasn't happy…I felt that going forward with those kinds of buildings was not helpful. Mr. Lauer pressed her and stated: “ It's legal. “, and Albright admitted: “It's legal.” (http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/settlementslaw.html)

it is patently clear, and Amb. Shapiro should know this, that it is illegitimate to ban a Jew from building a home in the Land of Israel. That would be...apartheid. In fact, if the US favors such a policy, well, there are many Arabs in Israel who could become the object of a backlash campaign predicated on the logic of Obama, Clinton and Shapiro. They could be told, if it is illegitimate for a Jew to live in Judea and Samaria, should it then not be legitimate for an Arab to live in Israel?

I do not support such a campaign but the logic is cogent.

And the political basis is simple: if the US continues to push in this direction, the reasoning can only be that they think all the country belongs to the Arabs who can never be told they cannot live somewher. But the Jews, ah, that's another matter. They are, it would devolve from this line of thinking, strangers to this land and they deserve only part of it - and in the other part they cannot reside.

Well, Mr. Ambassador, we are revenants, the natural and rightful sovereign national group in this land and we have returned to our ancestral patrimony despite the Ottomans, the Crusaders, the British and other unfriendly and unhelpful countries during the period prior to 1948, including the Holocaust era.

Hebron was Jewish-"settled" until Arabs ethnically cleansed the city as they did to Shchem and Gaza and Jenin and later to Gush Etzion, Jerusalem's Old City and other locations including Neveh Yaakov, Ataror and Bet Ha'aravah.

Mr. Ambassador, it is your country's policy, as expressed currently by this Administration, that is illegitimate.

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