Comments on: Bishop in Israel https://www.jwire.com.au/bishop-in-israel/ Australia, NZ and worldwide Jewish news that matters Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:15:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Leon Poddebsky https://www.jwire.com.au/bishop-in-israel/#comment-191379 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 21:15:51 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=65949#comment-191379 “the ‘Palestinian’ territories” is a misnomer for two reasons:
1. the use of the definite article implies that the Arabs claim only Judea and Samaria,[ “West Bank”] but they actually also claim the whole of Israel within the 1949 Armistice ‘Green Line.”
2. their claims are absolutely illegitimate and baseless. The 1922 Mandate for the Land, given by international law to Britain with the explicit task of reconstituting the Jewish National Home covered the Entire Land of Eretz Yisrael from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.

For reasons of pragmatism Israel has awarded autonomy to those Arabs, a large proportion of whom are themselves or are the descendants of settlers who immigrated into the Land looking for economic opportunities that the Zionists had created.

]]> By: Liat Kirby-Nagar https://www.jwire.com.au/bishop-in-israel/#comment-191305 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 03:50:37 +0000 http://www.jwire.com.au/?p=65949#comment-191305 Well, let’s hear what you have to say on your return, Foreign Minister Bishop. Hopefully there will be more depth to it than articulated government ‘policy’.

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