Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Worried About September?

I'm still worried about November.  Yes, November.  Not this coming September and 194.

It's November 1947 that's troubling me, when this was adopted by the General Assembly which included a request that:

The Security Council determine as a threat to the peace, breach of the peace or act of aggression, in accordance with Article 39 of the Charter, any attempt to alter by force the settlement envisaged by this resolution;

Note, "settlement" there means peaceful resolution of 30 years of conflict that began when Arabs launched a political terror campaign of violence against civilians.  And who do you think attempted to alter by force that resolution?

And as for those who insist that Jewish residency locations, aka "settlements", are illegal, review this, from the League of Nations in 1922:

The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands...


That was the international law in force and consider that Article 25 actually reinforced that legal foundation by defining the territories where "close settlement by Jews" would, temporarily, would not be permitted as

In the territories lying between the Jordan and the eastern boundary of Palestine as ultimately determined, the Mandatory shall be entitled, with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions...


In other words, Judea and Samaria and Gaza are surely areas where Jews can reside, plant fields, build homes and play soccer.  They lie between the Jordan River and the western boundary of the Palerstine Mandate.  Jews were discriminated against therein and then Great Britain decided to create, for an Arab refugee from Saudi Arabia, a new state where one never existed before, to be called TransJordan which evolved into the hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Moreover, that Article 25 ended with this provision:

...provided that no action shall be taken which is inconsistent with the provisions of Articles 15, 16 and 18.

Article 15, if you are interested (or think I am hiding something) reads, in part:

No discrimination of any kind shall be made between the inhabitants of Palestine on the ground of race, religion or language. No person shall be excluded from Palestine on the sole ground of his religious belief.

So, it really is quite simple.

Jews have the right to be in Shiloh.  Which I fulfill daily.  And have for the past 30 years.

And I intend to do so for a long time to come.

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2 comments:

Juniper in the Desert said...

Thank you. Saved and shared!

golem said...

i randomly saw you on youtube on one of those settlement interviews, i believe it was you and your wife, came across this blog by chance, keep up the good work!