New Report Concludes Judea & Samaria are not 'Occupied'

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A report has recently been written which examines the legal right of the Jewish people to live in their historic home-land. The international community constantly refers to 'occupied territory' or 'illegal outposts' but nobody has done their homework to determine if these lands are truly 'occupied' or 'illegal'. Those terms have been bandied by the Israel-hating leftists to bash the Jewish state. I have always been of the belief that these lands are fully 100% Jewish lands and should be under Israeli control. According to the agreements which were made at the time of the establishment of the state the Jewish the entire land known as Jordan was supposed to be a part of Israel. If any land was meant for the arabs of 'palestine' it was Jordan, which is why there is much talk about sending them all to Jordan...



http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157709

Download Historic Document: Judea and Samaria Not 'Occupied'

Conclusions of Levy Committee report made available by government. "Israelis have the legal right to settle in Judea and Samaria."
Gil Ronen

"After having considered the terms of reference set out in the Commission's mandate, and in light of what we have heard, as well as the considerable body of material presented to us by a wide range of bodies, our conclusions and recommendations are as follows:

"Our basic conclusion is that from the point of view of international law, the classical laws of 'occupation' as set out in the relevant international conventions cannot be considered applicable to the unique and sui generis historic and legal circumstances of Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria, over the course of decades.

"Therefore, according to international law, Israelis have the legal right to settle in Judea and Samaria and the establishment of settlements cannot, in and of itself, be considered to be illegal."

So begin the conclusions of the report of the Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria, a legal panel headed by Supreme Court Justice (ret.) Edmund Levy.

The committee goes on to say that, "With regard to settlements established in Judea and Samaria on state lands or on land purchased by Israelis with the assistance of official authorities such as the World Zionist Organization Settlements Division and the Ministry of Housing, and which have been defined as 'unauthorized' or 'illegal'" – administrative blockages imposed on the planning and zoning authorities "must be removed immediately." 

Pending completion of procedures granting valid building permits, the state "is advised to avoid carrying out demolition orders, since it brought about the present situation by itself."

An English translation of the historic document has been made available to the public for download in .pdf format by the government, at this url.


Download the Levy report while you can...

http://www.pmo.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/42C25B01-428B-40FC-8A6B-E9B1F5315D74/0/edmundENG100712.pdf

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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11892

There are Winners and Losers, Even When the Jews Win...

Had the Arabs won the Six Day War, G-d forbid, would they be called occupiers of Israeli territory?
From Ronn Torossian, CEO of 5WPR

There are winners and losers In war – even when the Jews win!

With all of the talk about the “occupied” West Bank, one would assume that Israel is “occupying” the area from the Palestinians, right? A major problem with that concept is that while there are 22 Arab states that surround Israel, the “Palestinians” never controlled the so-called “West Bank.”  That being the case, how exactly are these territories occupied?

I grew up in the Betar youth movement– It’s the youth movement founded byZe’ev Jabotinsky, the ideological leader of Revisionist Zionism.  Many of the most prominent Israeli politicians ever, idolized Jabotinsky – including Prime Ministers Yitzhak Shamir and Menachem Begin. The father of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also an avid follower, as have been many past and present leaders of the Jewish people.

It is an activist youth movement that continues worldwide today. Everyone who has been through Betar knows theZe’ev Jabotinsky poem “Shtei Gadot L’Yarden - Zu Shelanu Zu Gam Ken.” Translation? There are two sides of the Jordan River – this is ours and that is also.

Jabotinsky wrote the poem seven years after the decision by the British Government to divide the territory of the British Mandate which was designated for the Jewish State, into two territories, and to establish on one of its sides, on the east of the Jordan River, the Jordanian Kingdom.

Prior to that decision, Chaim Weizmann had raised historical and practical arguments in favor of keeping Israel on both sides of the river. Even after the World Zionist Organization accepted the borders that were outlined by the British government, and the removal of the territory east of the Jordan River from the British Mandate's boundaries, some in the liberal "Ahdut Ha'voda", continued to perceive the land east of the Jordan River as our right for Jewish building, and a territory that should be included within the future Jewish state.

Of course it is also part and parcel of the Biblical Jewish homeland which we read about each week in the Torah and two and a half of the ancient Jewish tribes lived there – and the “West Bank” is simply the western side of the Jordan River. The Jordanian people (and a State of Jordan) never existed until the British created that State.  They were Arabs – not “Jordanians”. So, who exactly is occupying whom?

Betar’s symbol was a Shtei Gadot – both sides of the Jordan River. Today in realpolitik that concept is a non-starter and unrealistic - but perhaps for the interest of a Public Relations campaign education can begin that there is in fact no occupation of the western bank of the Jordan River.
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