tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post4636054577745446749..comments2023-11-05T22:12:50.570+11:00Comments on Daphne Anson: David Singer: Palestine – France, Farce and FollyDaphne Ansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-42918404462402465532016-06-10T13:28:39.202+10:002016-06-10T13:28:39.202+10:00Thank you, good summary of this waste-of-time-conf...Thank you, good summary of this waste-of-time-conference.<br /><br />The BBC summary of why Israel "didn't attend" is mendacious:<br />https://bbcwatch.org/2016/06/08/bbcs-middle-east-editor-promotes-paris-conference-falsehood/<br /><br />And something somewhat related I posted as a comment in response to this blog at the Council for Foreign Relations:<br />http://blogs.cfr.org/cook/2016/05/31/on-the-road-in-israel/<br /><br />RE: West Bank. I should think someone at the CFR would present an analysis more cognizant of international law, as first embodied in the San Remo agreement and then enshrined in the still legally binding Mandate for Palestine.<br /><br />The “West Bank” (a post-1948 construct coined by the illegally invading Jordanians) belongs to Israel, by any of several incontrovertible legal arguments (cf. Eugene Kontorovich, Jacques Gauthier, and others). Israel’s “mistake” has been in not asserting its clear sovereignty and title to the West Bank, and thereby allowing the initially crystal-clear legal reality to become ever more obscured, and thus inappropriately and uninformedly challenged, over the past 50 years.<br /><br />What Israel chooses to do politically is another matter, of course. It could yield sovereignty to a Palestinian state. Given the demise of Oslo, however, I think a single Jewish state is more realistic (the demographics are overstated).Non-citizens living in the West Bank could be given a choice of either becoming Israeli citizens and swearing allegiance to Israel, or risk being deported to the other 73% of Mandatory “Palestine,” that is, Jordan.<br />borhanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12498562348810596899noreply@blogger.com