https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-echoes-the-united-states-in-its-reaction-to-icc-decision-on-israel/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Wed, 25 Dec 2019 09:11:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.jwire.com.au/australia-echoes-the-united-states-in-its-reaction-to-icc-decision-on-israel/#comment-468683 Wed, 25 Dec 2019 09:11:06 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=107134#comment-468683 The term, “Palestinian territories,” is utterly ahistorical and utterly illegitimate.
What makes them “Palestinian”? Is it the settler-colonialism of Arabs and their co-religionists from all over the Middle East and even from as far afield as Bosnia and the Caucasus, who settled in The Land of Israel when the Zionists were converting it from wasteland to productive land?
Or is it the Arab Beduin (they actually don’t much like to be called Arabs, but prefer the term, Beduin), who pursued their traditional peregrinations all over the Middle East, not having fixed, permanent residence in the Land of Israel, nor, obviously, legal title to any land there?
Or is it the fact of Arab settlers occupying private Jewish land to which Jews have legal title in secular law?

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