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Most Israelis Never Thought Settlements Were Illegal

(Jerusalem Post) Amotz Asa-El - Land-for-peace Israelis thought, and still think, that Israelis should avoid settling in densely Palestinian areas like Nablus or Jenin, but indeed should settle in largely empty areas, like the Jordan Valley, where Labor-led governments planted 28 kibbutzim and moshavim over the years. Yet it would be silly to expect the "international community" to consider such Israeli sensitivities before setting out to help the Palestinian strategy of equating all things Israeli with illegality. The juridical attack on Israel is driven not by concern for the law but by nefariousness and delusion, the delusion that peace can be delivered by harassing Israel; that lawfare can force an Israeli retreat, engineered by Europe. The U.S. formally rejected the conventional wisdom that the settlements are illegal - a reflection of the practicality for which Americans are famous. Europeans are not practical, preferring to do the right thing after exhausting all other possibilities, to paraphrase Abba Eban.
2019-11-26 00:00:00
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