Chitchat It's Official! Israel's Settlements In The West Bank Are Legit!

[JohnTan]

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The United States on Monday (Nov 18) effectively backed Israel's right to build Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank by abandoning its four-decade position that they were "inconsistent with international law."

The announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was a victory for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is struggling to remain in power after two inconclusive Israeli elections this year, and a defeat for the Palestinians.

Pompeo said US statements about the settlements in the West Bank - which Israel captured during a 1967 war - had been inconsistent, saying Democrat President Jimmy Carter in 1978 found they were not consistent with international law and Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1981 said he did not view them as inherently illegal.

"The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements is not, per se, inconsistent with international law," Pompeo told reporters at the State Department, drawing criticism from a senior Palestinian figure even before his announcement.

"Another blow to international law, justice & peace," Hanan Ashrawi, a veteran Palestinian negotiator and member of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee, said on Twitter ahead of Pompeo's statement.

The announcement marked the third major instance in which the Trump administration has sided with Israel and against stances taken by the Palestinians and Arab states even before unveiling its long-delayed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.

In 2017 Trump recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and, in 2018, the United States formally opened an embassy in the city.

US policy had previously been that the status of Jerusalem was to be decided by the parties to the conflict.

And in March, Trump recognised Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights in a boost for Netanyahu that prompted a sharp response from Syria, which once held the strategic land.

Trump's move might have been designed to help Netanyahu as he struggles to stay in power. Israeli politics is deadlocked after two inconclusive elections this year.

Former military chief Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and White party emerged neck and neck with Netanyahu following a September vote, and both leaders have struggled to put together a ruling coalition.

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/...ofter-us-stance-on-israels-jewish-settlements

 

[rushifa666]

It was also legit for japanese army to stay here

 

[mojito]

Of course. If west bank settlements illegal, western half of US would be illegal too!

 

[mudhatter]

Becomes all that much harder for puppet regimes like

1. Al Saud, MBZ, oil sheikhdoms to side with yanks

2. for Erdogan to remain a NATO member and shying away from developing a(n intercontinental) nuclear deterrent.

3. Good for Iranian cause. Iran can supply Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Houthis and all sorts of other militias in the region with better, more improved, more advanced, powerful weapons. Like ballistic missiles with greater range, accuracy, payload, smarter (making it harder to intercept) and with a diverse array of warheads - to target anything from radars to static targets on land and sea to mobile, slow moving bulky targets on sea (like aircraft carriers or heli carriers) and strategic targets (like Dimona).

 

[mudhatter]

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah already declared long time ago that Dimona, ammonia plant in Haifa and 1,000 other targets are on the priority hit list.

Means first to be uplorried if Hezbollah engage in fight with Zionist terrorists.

 

[steffychun]

Time to fuck @Ang4MohTrump and his hams loving family!

 

[syed putra]

West bank are part of the jewish promised kand . Similarly sinkie is part of indian promised land. Thats why its singapura, a indian name. Bumis are tolerated as bumiputra is also a indian derived word. Others are squatters, just like the palestinians

 

[Froggy]

Yes I support this is legal same same the 9 dash line

 

[KuanTi01]

History can be interpreted and rewritten based on the size of the fist! So even the USA thinks that might is right. Hypocrisy rules!

 

[syed putra]

Thanks for the map. Now i know where luconia shoal is.a china coast guard ship is permanently anchored there.

 

[JohnTan]

History can be interpreted and rewritten based on the size of the fist! So even the USA thinks that might is right. Hypocrisy rules!

Every country knows that might is right since the beginning of time. Only islamists think that their imperialism on other is okay but not the other way around.

 

[eatshitndie]

it has been legit long ago. only libtards and arab sympathizers will call it illegit.

 

[JohnTan]

Why is the arab moslem conquest of Israel legit but the reconquest of land back from the moslems illegal?

 

[hofmann]

may peace finally descend upon their lands.

 

[rushifa666]

Americunt interest is the drone experiments, the weed research etc and other illegal stuff they export offshore to israeli. Else they dont give a fucking fuck about jewish interest and their dubious religious claims

 

[ChristJohnny]

No surprises here ... as Jew IQ > Arab IQ. That is why the Arabs could not win a single combat against the mighty Isreali.
End of the day ... IQ Trumps.

There is no single advance low IQ country.
IQ and Race

 

[syed putra]

No surprises here ... as Jew IQ > Arab IQ. That is why the Arabs could not win a single combat against the mighty Isreali.
End of the day ... IQ Trumps.

There is no single advance low IQ country.
IQ and Race
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Are you joking? Jews were the laughing stock in the middle east. They were trampled and subjugated, enslaved by romans, babylonians, egyptians, persians.......the myth was moses saved them from the pharoah to the promised land. And jews insist that land is where palestine used to be.

 

[syed putra]

may peace finally descend upon their lands.

Peace can only be achieved if both sides live in peace in one country.
That will be difficult for the jews as they seized many palestinians owned land in israel and if those refugees are allowed to return there will be many claimants. Must either compensate or return the seized land.