Post 74 Noor Erakat, a Palestinian human rights attorney and legal scholar. She is an assistant professor at Rutgers University and the author of “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.”
She says '' Israeli colonial settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, are not only illegal under international law, they are war crimes.''
Well, for the 23rd time lets do it again .
In 1917, British Foreign Minister Arthur James Balfour declared: “His Majesty’s Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” As a result of the Balfour Declaration in 1922, the League of Nations elected to transfer the territory to the British with the intention that “the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” The British gained control of the Land of Israel, including Judea, Samaria and Transjordan, as a
custodianship for the Jewish People.
In “1946” Arabs ignores the fact that the territory in question in fact wasn’t Palestinian-controlled , but was under British Mandatory rule until May 1948.
With the British about to leave Israel decleared he 'State of Israel; ( Aretz Yisrael ). The next day Arab armies attacked Israel,and Jordan captured the West Bank of Jordan. (Trans -Jordan )
The powers above said stop!! (America & Russia) Those places were the Armistice Lines , not a border!! It became known as the West bank (of Jordan) This capture was illegal
The West Bank was the name given to the territory that was captured by and annexed to Jordan in the aftermath of Israel's War of Independence in 1948. Since Jordan had done so illegally, its annexation was not formally recognized by the international community, except for the UK and Pakistan.
In 1967 Jordan attacked Israel,together with Syria, Egypt and some Iraqi forces But it lost the war. In what can only be described as a miracle, the Egyptian, Jordanian, and Syrian armies lost over 20,000 troops, while Israel lost 1,000. This war changed the course of Israeli and Jewish history, as Israel claimed more parts of Biblical Israel, including the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria.
So ''Israeli colonial settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, are not only illegal under international law, they are war crimes?'' Noor Erakat is telling porkies!!



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