First trip to Israel!

Sorry Cat, I really am not a student of pop culture's history of the Palestinians-Israekli conflict. I do know that the Ottomans controlled the region that included Israel up until 1917, I recall a British mandated territory being established by the League Nations, and it became known ask Palestine. I do recall that it was initially portioned, allowing the creation of Jordan. There was another attempt to partition it between Jews and Palestinian Arabs in 1947. The Palestinians Arabs along with the Arab League rejected it. The invasion buy surround Arab states resulted in the loss of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt. Jordan went on to annex the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1952. Then we get up to 1967, when Arab threats of invasion, rattling did not have a good result for them.

Sorry if you prefer to dabble in fiction. But I do not for the life of me recall Palestinian Arab ever having control over the West Bank. And we do know that Jerusalem was not ton be included in either state.

The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Court of Justice and the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention have all confirmed that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory are illegal as they are in breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The Government of Israel disagrees, but he's alone.

Everyone, including Israel (see the Olso agreements) agrees that there are two nations in the so-called Holy Land: Israel, and Palestine (West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza)

Just curious: what is your legal background? I'm asking because you're challenging international law as acknowledged by the UN Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, the ICRC, the international Court of Justice and the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

ZedisDead:
But those cases are "different" .....
Of course the EU is in a "position" ! Don't you know that AsAEuropeans (like Catw) are morally superior people who have granted themselves the right to judge the rest of the world ?

The United Nations Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Court of Justice and the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention have all confirmed that Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territory are illegal as they are in breach of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

This is not Europe, this is international law.

Worth noting that there are 7.5 millions Israelis living in Israel, as compared to only 500,000 settlers living in the Palestinian Territory.

Once again, International law does not determine disputed borders, they are determined throug negotiatiion and kutual agreement. No matter how many times you say otherwise

Just curious: what is your legal background? I'm asking because you're challenging the definitions of both Israel and of the Palestinian territory as confirmed by the UN Security Council, the United Nations General Assembly, the ICRC, the international Court of Justice and the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Besides, let's be serious one minute. It's ridiculous to pretend that the state of Israel has no borders more than 60 years after it was created.

You should go and chill out on the beach, there are plenty of magnificent ones in Israel and it can only do you good.

I am not an expert ion international law and I seem to doubt you are one as well, but I have lived in Israel for a number if years as an Israeli citizen and have studied the history of the conflict over the years. I am familiar with land disputes. The internationally recognized borders Israel ha thus are with Egypt and Jordan, through a peace agreement and with Lebanon. The line with the West Bank and Jerusalem were armistice lines determined after the 1948 war in independence. prior to 1967, the Wets Bank had been under annexation by Jordan and Gaza was under an Egyptian military government. There was no such animal as East Jerusalem. Under the UN partition plan of 1947, Jerusalem was supposed to have been internationalized. It was never divided, a demand the Palestinians stand firm on. Do you dispute this?

Besides, let's be serious one minute</i>.

Good advice; why don't you follow it ?

Catw reminds me of my own cat. My cat will do things a number of times over with the same reslt. it is not unlike Catw continuing to say the same thing and get the same corrections from a multitude of posters