|
Trending Topics
|
Source: http://www.thejc.com/comment/columnists/25107/israels-settlements-are-legal
Israel's Settlements Are Legal
(London Jewish Chronicle) Geoffrey Alderman - In the online journal of the Law Society of Scotland (Sep. 14, 2009), the distinguished Anglo-Canadian jurist, Professor Gerald Adler, offers a painstaking analysis of Jewish claims stretching back to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, the Treaty of Sevres of 1920, and the Palestine Mandate of 1922. Professor Adler demonstrates that Jews have a right to "close settlement" on the West Bank, and that this right was specifically preserved and carried forward on the demise of the League of Nations, through the deliberate wording of article 80 of the founding charter of its successor body, the United Nations.