Are these territories really occuppied?
• “Yesha [the “West Bank”] is not an ‘occupied Arab land’ but in fact an area of the Mandate which are to be dealt with in accordance with the terms of the Mandate.” [That means that according to International law all Jewish settlements are legal as they are built according to Mandate’s provision of “encouraging the close settlement in these areas by the Jews.”] “The Mandate does not provide for a separate Arab state to be created in Yesha.” [Israel has much more right to Yesha than anybody else, according to International law, since Jordan, which captured Yesha in 1948 in an aggressive war against the young Jewish state, officially renounced all claims to Judea and Samaria in 1988]. – Australian lawyer David Singer, in his article “A Mandate for Peace,” dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the promulgation by the League of Nations of the Mandate for Palestine, • In November of 1947, UN General Assembly resolution 181 was issued, recommending a “Plan of Partition” of Palestine. The Ara
