Israel's Legal International Right's Ignored by BDSers

Nadene Goldfoot                                                  

After King Solomon died in 920 BCE, Israel divided into Israel and Judah due to political differences.
King Saul ruled first, about 1,000 BC, then David,  followed by son Solomon.  Jordanians started
calling Judea and Samaria, the West Bank-west bank of the Jordan River.  

      What the BDS movement against Israel is doing is spreading lies about the legal rights that Israel has.  They are also hurting the very Palestinian Arabs that they think they are helping.  They are interferring with their rights to employment.  That's usually what meddlers do-mess up people's lives, not help them because they're poor at getting the facts.
                                                                         

BDS movement wants to stop Caterpiller from selling tractors in Israel.

"The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS Movement) is a global campaign attempting to increase economic and political pressure on Israel to comply with the stated goals of the movement: the end of Israel's occupation and colonization of Palestinian land and the Golan Heights, full equality for Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, and respect for the right of return of Palestinian refugees."  Arab Palestinans have had full equality since they became citizens.  They're in the Knesset and every other form of whatever citizens have.  The only difference for them is that they are not expected to enter the army.  Only those that have wanted to, like the Druze, do this.  The Arabs would like to flood the state with more Arab relatives connected to them, or not, but this is the one and only Jewish state.                                                    

War of Independence 1947-1949, Jews from the Holocaust, surviving those horrors only
to be met with a war in their new home-and this time they are soldiers.  

The balance is not to be altered.  We now have a ratio of 6 million Jews to 1.7 million Arab citizens of Israel.   The "OTHERS" the Palestinians want to come in are descendants of those  who were in the land when Israel became a state on May 14, 1948 fled, told to leave as the Arab armies were coming to take over and it was after that that they could have Jewish homes, treasures, etc.  They had their chance and blew it.  They followed the wrong people, not the Jews who begged them to stay.  Golan Heights is not going back to Arab hands who had it before and rained all the rockets, mortars and missiles from there down onto Israelis.  NO WAY!  Jews also have a right to live where they are in Judea and Samaria.   ABC sections have already been discussed.  Now, how about talking about peace and not continuance of attacking Israelis?  First, stop the attacks so that people are in the mood to talk about their problems and solving them.  
                                                                               

The mandate of Palestine covered ALL the land of Palestine.  What you're looking at today
is mostly what has become Jordan.

WWI lasted from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918; 4 years, 3 months, 2 weeks long.  It took place in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Pacific Islands, China and off the coast of South and North America.                                                        

  The Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria joined the Central Powers against the Allies.  Palestine was a part of the Ottoman Empire.  Turkey lost their Ottoman Empire.  The Arabs are still in denial about it.  

The facts are that after WWI  in 1922,  representatives of the Jewish people were in conferences with the Allies.   The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine was given to the British.  The body of the League of Nations  Mandate recognized the Jewish National Rights in the WHOLE of the mandated territory of Palestine.

Recognition was given because the Jews had such a historical connections with Palestine and needed to claim their rightful place where they had been forced out and was to reconstitute their National Home in this land of Palestine again.  The members of the League of Nations did not create the rights of the Jewish People.  What they did was RECOGNIZE A PRE-EXISTING RIGHT.  This was the 2,000 year old quest of the Jewish people to re-establish their homeland.
                                                                           

1949 Armistice Lines

By 1946, Israel's rights were preserved under the United Nations (UN) as well.  This is according to Article 80 of the UN CHARTER.  This established that nothing in the UN Charter should be construed to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any  peoples or the terms of EXISTING INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS.

These rights were unaffacted by the UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION  181 of November 1947's Partition Plan, which was a NON-BINDING RECOMMENDATION  that was rejected by the Palestinians and the Arab states.   This is all documented.

JORDAN occupied the West Bank (Judea and Samaria-original Jewish land of the Israelites; king Saul, king David, King Solomon).  They had stolen the land by their illegal invasion in 1948 IN DEFIANCE of the UN SECURITY COUNCIL.  Then they had the temerity to annex the West Bank in 1950.  Remember, Abdullah was a prince from SAUDI ARABIA, not a native Palestinian, nor a Jew.  He was an outsider who had helped the Allies win WWI in the Middle East, same as the Jews did, only he had more men who fought.

Jordan's annexation of the WEST BANK was recognized by Pakistan and Great Britain but excluded the annexation of Jerusalem.  The ANNEXATION by Jordan was rejected by most of the international community, including THE ARAB STATES!  
                                                                           

Jordan insisted that the 1949 Armistice Line, the Israeli-Jordanian boundary until 1967, was not a recognized international border but ONLY A LINE SEPARATING ARMIES.  The Armistice Line Agreement specifically states:  NO PROVISION OF THIS AGREEMENT SHALL IN ANY WAY PREJUDICE THE RIGHTS, CLAIMS, AND POSITIONS OF EITHER PARTY HERETO IN THE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF THE PALESTINE QUESTIONS, THE PROVISIONS OF THE AGREEMENT BEING DICTATED EXCLUSIVELY BY MILITARY CONSIDERATIONS.  (Article II.2)
                                                                                     

Israel-9 miles wide.  

NEVER was the word, "Occupation" used legally in other situations.  BUT ONLY IN THIS CASE, WITH THE WEST BANK AND GAZA, where no internationally recognized sovereign control previously existed, ISRAEL WAS LABELED WITH THE STIGMA AS AN "OCCUPIER."   There have been many other cases where international borders were crossed in armed conflicts and sovereign territory was seized; even in clear-cut cases of aggression.

EGYPT HAD BEEN OCCUPYING THE GAZA STRIP.  They also had invaded the land illegally in 1948, the time of Israel's announcement of their state which was the time of their fight, The War of Independence that was from November 29, 1947 to 1949 when the parties signed the Armistice Agreements.  This was a war started by the Arabs because they would not accept the UN partition resolution.  They came in from Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.   to reinforce local Arabs who were attacking Jews.
                                                                       

This was also a time that Jews held in Holocaust camps  were coming out of the Holocaust and needed a home.  They didn't want to return to Poland or Ukraine, places the native population had been helpers of the Nazis to kill them off.  They needed Israel and had been kept from there before even in 1940-41.Those that managed to arrive illegally themselves were thrust into fighting for their new country's life!

Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of SELF DEFENSE has, against that prior holder, better title.  So said Stephen Schwebel, former State Dept. Legal Advisor in 1970.  International jurists generally do draw a DISTINCTION between situations of "AGGRESSIVE CONQUEST"  after a war of "SELF DEFENSE".
The West Bank was to be part of the new Israel.  That was a deal.  It was stolen during an aggressive conquest.  Israel was fighting in self-defense.  Stephen Schwebel later headed the International Court of Justice in the Hague.                                  

2007; Judea/Samaria (West Bank)- Jewish towns. 

Israel only entered the West Bank AFTER repeated Jordanian artillery fire and ground movements across the previous armistice lines.  Jordan attacked at 10:00am.  Israel warned them to stop through contacts at the UN at 11:00am.  Jordan continued hitting Israel.  Israel's military action began at 12:45pm.  By then, Iraqi forces crossed Jordanian territory and were poised to enter the West Bank.  The temporary armistice boundaries of 1949 lost all validity the moment Jordanian forces revoked the armistice and attacked.     Israel took control of the West Bank as a result of a DEFENSIVE WAR.  
                                                                               

June 1967 IDF Finally were able to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem after the battle was over 
and Israel had won.

Palestinians continue the fight by using the term, OCCUPATION, REPEATEDLY.  In this way they manage to reverse the causality of the conflict, and those judging it, the media, the governments, are too weak in their judgments to see the differences.  The people who use this term, Occupation or occupiers, are obfuscating this history.  The territorial disputes giving reasons to use BDS against Israel as one form of a weapon is not the result of a war imposed on Israel by a coalition of Arab states in 1967, rather more by the lies by the Palestinians.                                                                    

Gaza, Israel pulled out for the sake of Peace-Sharon was Prime Minister.
It took place from August 15 to September 12, 2005.  Instead,
they've been shelled by the Arabs from there.

The results of the fighting is that Israel was only expected to withdraw FROM THE TERRITORIES to secure and recognized boundaries.   Israel was not expected to withdraw from THE territories or ALL the territories captured in the Six Day War of 1967.  You may say this is being picky-but it's a part of law. Lawyers have to recognize these important but teeny words and what they mean legally. (UN Security Council Resolution 242) The UN Security Council recognized that Israel was ENTITLED TO PART OF THESE  TERRITORIES FOR NEW DEFENSIBLE BORDERS.  242 MEANT THAT iSRAEL WILL NOT WITHDRAW FROM ALL THE TERRITORIES.  

With Resolution 338, it became clear that ONLY NEGOTIATIONS WOULD DETERMINE WHICH PART OF THESE TERRITORIES WOULD BECOME ISRAELI TERRITORIES AND TERRITORIES TO BE KEPT BY ISRAEL'S ARAB COUNTERPART.                                                                               

According the the UN's charter Article 80, nothing should be construed to alter in any manner the rights.
Israel has legal rights with respect to the West Bank and Gaza Strip that appear to be ignored by international observers who keep saying that Israel is an OCCUPIER.  Israel is not a foreign OCCUPIER with no territorial rights.  Israel has strong historical rights to the land that were already RECOGNIZED by the main bodies serving as the source of international legitimacy in the previous century.  

Judea and Samaria are divided by further talks into areas A, B, and C.  One is for the Palestinians, one for the Jews and one they both are in.  The Palestinians build illegally in the wrong places,  yet the international community stays blind to what they do illegally.  
                                                                        

BDS'ers Crusading against Israelis

We already know that Israel  pulled out of Gaza completely in the name of a promised peace which has given them nothing but a constant rain, a storm of rockets, mortars and missiles.  This is the opposite of a promised peace.  This is what Israel has experienced by listening to the Left.  Now they must protect themselves from a people who do not care at all to have their own state and live in peace with their neighbor, Israel.  BDSers are simply Old Crusaders  wanting to draw Jewish blood.  

Resource: Occupied Territories to disputed Territories, by Dore Gold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott,_Divestment_and_Sanctions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I

Arabs and How They Have Treated Jews Throughout History

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                          

King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia today

 Arabs, from their very name, are from Arabia, not Palestine.  Palestinian Arabs, therefore, are not native to the present day Gaza and Judea and Samaria.  They wandered there throughout the centuries to arrive and live all over the Middle East.  Gaza had long ago been an Egyptian expedition base in the 15th to 13th centuries BCE.   and then was captured by the Philistines.  The Temple of Dagon was there.  That was an ancient Semitic deity whose cult was adopted by the Philistines when they entered Canaan.  Dagon was an important god in the Ugaritic belief in many gods.  He was a god of the soil and plant-growth and widely worshipped in the Middle Eastern countries.

                                                                         

Judea and Samaria were part of Israel, the only Jewish land in the world created by Moses who led the Israelites there as commanded by G-d. On the map above, Jordan was a part of Israel.   Moses died just outside the land in about 1271 BCE and Joshua took over getting the people on the land.  The first king was Saul in the 11th century BCE, son of Kish of the tribe of Benjamin.  Judah was the southern part of Israel and Samaria was the land around the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, founded in 880 BCE by King Omri on a hill bought from Shemer. They had to choose a new capital since Jerusalem, the original capital of Israel went to the Jews of Judah.   Samaria, the city was  NW of Shechem (Nablus today).  The city was on 25 acres and is all referred to now as Samaria.
                                                                           

It fell in 721 BCE to the Assyrians who resettled it with Cutheans, the Kutim,  who mixed in with the population and were the ancestors of the Samaritans.  According to records, "The emergence of the Samaritans as an ethnic and religious community distinct from other Levant peoples appears to have occurred at some point after the Assyrian conquest of the Israelite Kingdom of Israel in approximately 721 BCE. The records of Sargon II of Assyria indicate that he deported 27,290 inhabitants of the former kingdom. Then, "The Talmud accounts for a people called "Cuthim" on a number of occasions, mentioning their arrival by the hands of the Assyrians."  So this was another exchange of populations; those taken out and those brought in to replace them.  
                                                                                 

Arabs are also a Semitic people like the Jews.  Their home had been the Arabian peninsula and other regions close by.  After Mohammad's birth and death in 632 CE/AD, they were part of the hoard or very well could have been THE hoard that burst forth from their homeland for the reason to conquer the greater part of the then civilized world.

They speak Arabic which just happens to be a cognate to Hebrew and forms a branch of the Semitic languages.  They say Salaam whereas Jews say Shalom, a greeting that means peace, or hello or goodbye.
                                                                           

Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia

Our Tanakh (Bible) and Talmudic literature does mention the Arabs and their homeland.  At the time of our 2nd Temple before 70 CE, it is possible that there were some Arabs living in Israel.  Our Temple,  built by King Solomon (961 BCE-920 BCE) , was destroyed in 586 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia.  It was rebuilt  from 538 to 515 BCE during the period of Simon the Just, Judah the Maccabee, Simon the Hasmonean, and King Herod.  Then the Romans destroyed it in 70 CE.
                                                           
                                                                      Descendants of Eber

1   Eber (descendant of Shem) Shem was one of 3 sons of Noah
.     2        Peleg-ancestor of Abraham
.     2        Joktan ancestor of the Arabs

According to Genesis 10, Eber was the forefather of Abraham as well as of Joktan, the ancestor of the southern Arabs.  Several Arab tribes are also enumerated among the descendants of Abraham.
                                                                         

Ishmaelites buying Joseph, son of  Jacob by Rachel  

  The Arabs themselves trace their origin to Ishmael, the first son of Abraham by Hagar, the Egyptian handmaiden and former Egyptian princess of Abraham's wife, Sarah.  Sarah also happened to be Abraham's niece.  Sarah later gave birth to her first child, Isaac, and because of problems raising the 2 boys and bad feelings between the 2 women, Hagar and  son Ishmael left the family group at Sarah's insistence because she felt that Hagar was trying to usurp her position as wife and take over Abraham entirely.

 Egyptians were not Arabs, but Arabs invaded Egypt in 640 CE.  From there on the  population may have blended somewhat.  Jews had lived there as well.  During Philo's days from 25 BCE to 50 CE , 1,000,000 Jews lived there with the most in Alexandria.  Philo was a Jewish philosopher living in Egypt.

Jewish tribes were found living in Arabia by the 1st century CE, long after The Assyrian conquest of Israel in 721 BCE and then the Babylonian conquest of 597-586 BCE.  It's possible they were so far away from Israel through these conquests when Jews were taken as prisoners to the land of the conquerors. The 10 tribes of Israel were taken  by Assyria.  The Babylonian conquest took Jews to Babylonia.  Perhaps some escaped at either time to wind up in Arabia, which would have been far south and a little east of their homeland.

Many Jews were expelled from northern Arabia shortly after the rise of Islam because they refused to convert-and Arabs were on a strong convert or die bent.  The Jews in southern Arabia continued to live in considerable numbers until recent times.  Medina was a large city where Jews lived and met many Arabs including Mohammad.  Several whole Jewish tribes had been forced to convert or die this way.
                                                                         

The Islamic conquests extended to many countries with ancient Jewish communities.  On several occasions, the Arabs were looked upon as better overlords than the people of these European countries, so were welcomed by the Jews who even helped them in conquest and occupation as life under them was better.   This happened in  Palestine,  Syria (Aram) . and Spain.   Palestine received its name from the Romans who had taken Judah and destroyed the 2nd Temple in 70 CE.
                                                                             

Syria was never a homogeneous state.  The coast had Phoenicians living there.  In the 8th century it was overrun by the Assyrians, too.  The Jews living there then suffered from the Greeks who had taken it.   When the Arabs conquered Syria in 634, life was better for the Jews living there.  Aleppo had in the 12th century, 5,000 Jews;  Damascus had 3,000, and Palmyra 2,000.  After 1492, more Jews lived in Syria who came from the Spanish Catholic Inquisition.  WWII caused an immigration of 30,000 Syrian Jews to dwindle down to 14,000 by 1947.
                                                                                                         

Haj Amin al-Husseini

WWII also saw the affinity that Nazi Germany had for Arabs. Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Sherif of Jerusalem known as the Grand Mufti, visited Hitler in Germany to talk him into killing European Jews.  He didn't want any in Palestine.  It was a mutual attraction between Husseini and many other Arabs with Nazis and vice- versa.  That seems to be the beginning seeds of bad blood between many  Arabs and Iranians and the Jews.
                                                                             

Bashar al-Assad

In Syria, an Alawite family of Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafez al- Assad,  came down hard on the Jews and kept them confined in a ghetto.  He followed suit. The Alawites "are a religious group, centred in Syria, who follow a very highly contested and controversial branch of the Twelver school of Shia Islam.  The Jews of Syria  were finally rescued and taken out of  Syria by Judith Feld Carr, a Canadian musician and mother, who with her husband,  was actually buying Jews from Assad over 28 years and getting them out of Syria.  She started her humane project in about 1973.  The Alawites are a minority in Syria, populated more with people following Sunni Islam.  As we have seen, the Alawites rule with an iron hand.
                                                                           
 The Arab conquerors usually treated the Jews well and assured them of protection and freedom of religion as long as they paid the tax for doing it, called the poll tax.  This was written up in the Pact of Omar.  The Jews, like all the other non-Moslems, were called Dhimmis, or 2nd class citizens, and were subject to certain restrictions.  Outright persecutions happened not infrequently, especially in countries under sectarian rule, but in general, their position in the Arab world during the Middle Ages was actually better than in Christian Europe.

The surprising thing is that Jews sometimes were given a high governmental office in Spain and Fatimid Egypt.  In Spain, Jewish life under Arab rule was very good in the cultural field.  On the other hand, medieval conditions dominated the Arab world after Europe went into their age of Enlightenment, so Europe supposedly improved and uplifted themselves.  Under western European influence, conditions for Jews greatly improved in most place, but not in Yemen in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Then we see that the position of the Jews was badly affected by the anti-European attitudes and rising nationalism of the past generation.  The creation of the Jewish State of Israel in 1948 caused Jews to be expelled from Arab lands.  At the same time, Palestinian Arab leaders told their people to leave the newly announced Israel so that they could attack and take it over, which didn't work out for them.  There was an exchange of people from the land, coming into and leaving.

During 1967 During the Six Day War of Arabs attacking the Jews of Israel, there were 700,000 Arabs living in Israel.  About another million came under Israeli administration as a result of Israel winning the war-standing up against the attack.  
                               

Former Shah of Iran before Ayatollas

                                             

Ayatollah of Iran-All Powerful

Iranians are not Arabs. Called Persians till only a few years ago, Persia met Jews when the Babylonian Empire by Cyrus in 538 BCE attacked Judah and carted away its best of the population.  Jews lived there and can be read about in the Book of Esther.  However, Iran today is of the Shi'a sect of Islam while Arabs are of the Sunni sect-like a difference of Protestants and Catholics.
                                                                               

 They also have the Salafist sect now seen by the conquesting IS, who are radicals.  IS has taken much of Syria and Iraq and of course hates and will kill Jews either through planning or accident.  They are reliving the ancient days of Islam in their planning to take over the Middle East.

Reference:  The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Feld_Carr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashar_al-Assad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans