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Category is limited to official documents related to Israel's national rights that are legally binding according to the various approaches of legal authorities who support Israel's rights to its homeland. It also has legitimate international compacts that are often-cited but are not directly relevant to Israel's national rights.
LEGAL RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL, AMERICAN, AND ISRAELI LAW
Quote from Eugene V. Rostow (died on November 25, 2002, from his last letter on the subject to the N.Y. Times) He says I am "virtually alone" in believing that Israel's legal claim to those territories is stronger than that of any other possible claimant . . .
Dore Gold, Baseless Comparisons: UN Security Council Resolutions on Iraq and Israel, JERUSALEM ISSUE BRIEFS, Sept. 24, 2002, http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief2-7.htm.
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Statements Clarifying the Meaning of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 (Nov. 22, 1967), http://mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0cyv0.
Meir Rosenne, Understanding UN Security Council Resolution 242 of November 22, 1967, on the Middle East, in DEFENSIBLE BORDERS FOR A LASTING PEACE (2005), available athttp://www.defensibleborders.org/rosenne.htm.
Category contains historical documents and works about history that relate to Israel's national rights. It also contains works that project future developments.
1891
Memorial from Wm. E. Blackstone, Chairman of the Conference of Christians and Jews, to Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, and James G. Blaine, Secretary of State (Mar. 5,1891), http://www.amfi.org/blackmem.htm.
A Letter from Feisal Husseini, King of Syria and Iraq, to Felix Frankfurter, Associate of Dr. Chaim Weizmann (Mar. 3, 1919), reprinted in SAMUEL KATZ, BATTLEGROUND: FACT & FANTASY IN PALESTINE (1973), available athttp://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/feisal2.html.
1937
David Ben-Gurion, Address at the Basle Session of the 20th Zionist Congress in Zurich, Switzerland (Aug. 1937), quoted inNo Jew Has the Right to Give Up (Eretz Yisrael) the Land of Israel, MACCABEAN ONLINE, Feb. 2004, http://www.freeman.org/m_online/feb04/ben-gurion.htm.
1944Brand-new!
Republican Party Platform of 1944 [Palestine] (June 26th, 1944), http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=25835 ("In order to give refuge to millions of distressed Jewish men, women and children driven from their homes by tyranny, we call for the opening of Palestine to their unrestricted immigration and land ownership, so that in accordance with the full intent and purpose of the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and the Resolution of a Republican Congress in 1922, Palestine may be constituted as a free and democratic Commonwealth. We condemn the failure of the President to insist that the mandatory of Palestine carry out the provision of the Balfour Declaration and of the mandate while he pretends to support them.").
1950
Debate of the First Knesset on Annexation of the West Bank by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (May 3, 1950), in 2 MAJOR KNESSET DEBATES, 1948-1981, at 571 (Netanel Lorch ed., Dorothea Vanson-Shefer trans., 1993), available atwww.jcpa.org/art/knesset6.htm ("We are confronted by a problem of that kind today, but our position is far better, since we have control of 80 percent of our territory . . . although 20 percent of our territory has been annexed by the neighboring Arab country...." - Foreign Minister, M. Sharett). [Included Glossary of Political Parties and Personalities]
Memorandum of Conversation Between Henry A. Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, and Sadun Hammadi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq (Dec. 17, 1975), available athttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/
NSAEBB193/HAK-12-17-75.pdf (Kissinger: "We can't negotiate about the existence of Israel but we can reduce its size to historical [sic] proportions.").
1977
Statement to the United Nations General Assembly by Foreign Minister Dayan, 10 October 1977, in 4-5 ISRAEL'S FOREIGN RELATIONS (n.d.), http://tinyurl.com/m9dna ("No state today has any claims of sovereignty, to what was Mandatory Palestine, that are better than or even equal to Israel's claims.").
1995
Background: Rabin's Forgotten Program - No Palestinian State, No Settlement Freeze, Gush Katif as Model, IMRA, Mar. 27, 2004, http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=20239 (summarizing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Address Before the Knesset (Oct. 5, 1995)).
LIES OF THE ARABS, THE WESTERN WORLD, AND THE MEDIA
Category exposes and counters the duplicity and ignorance surrounding Israel's national rights.
[Admits Palestinians not the indigenous population] MEMRI: Abbas Speech: This is a Struggle Between the Nat'l Project & the Emirate of Darkness, IMRA, June 22, 2007, http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=34919 (Abbas: "One of the oldest churches in Palestine, which stood long before our arrival [in the region], was looted and set on fire.").
Letter from Eli E. Hertz, President, Myths and Facts, to Attorney Osnat Mandel, Director of the BAGATZ Department, Israeli State Attorney Office, regarding the State's defense regarding the validity of the Mandate for Palestine in the disengagement (pinui/pitzui) appeals before the High Court of Justice. (May 3, 2005), http://www.mythsandfacts.com/media/user/documents/Letter%20to%20Osnat%20Mandel%2006-
17-05.pdf. Brand-new!
Category refutes the applicability of the term "occupation" in a restrictive or broader sense to Israel. The first article provides historical background for the subject.
Louis René Beres, Why the Oslo Accords Should Be Abbrogated by Israel: A Jurisprudential Memorandum for the New Prime Minister, MACCABEAN ONLINE, July 1996, http://www.freeman.org/m_online/jul96/beresw.htm.
Our long-term category goal is to index detailed subject headings of lasting value for all credible works in the print and electronic media that support Israel's rights to its homeland or serve to document its obfuscation by public officials. The entries for this category on the homepage cycle downward as new ones become available.
Disclaimer: IWP cannot verify the factual assertions made in every work. Management reserves the right to include an individual author's work on the basis of his/her academic credentials and/or relevant experience. As a general rule, a master's degree or equivalent is required.
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