Weekly Question: Should the Israeli government adopt the Levy Report on the status of the West Bank and settlements?
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July 10, 2012
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Jul 10, 2012
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Mark Chulsky
3:59 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Could someone please provide a link to a list of settlement products, so I could buy some (and forward to my friends too)? Thank you, please respond here.
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Eliastam
3:59 pm
Jul 10, 2012
What is it? Why not put it with question?
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Steven Cohen
4:00 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Without a doubt.
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Alan K.
4:05 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Should I, an American who so far has chosen not to live in Israel but who supports the State of Israel, presume to tell the government elected by the Jewish, Moslem, Christian, and other citizens of that state what it should do? Did it ask me? And if I should, then I would have to read the report before commenting.
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Victor Hayim Tordjman
6:17 pm
Jul 10, 2012
I liked your wise reflexions. As a senior citizen of Israel ( 42 years in the country) and a resident
I agree with you that the way to try and influence the actions of the Israeli government – or any
democratically elected government for that matter- is through the established democratic channels and institutions. Eventually public demonstrations , held according to accepted rules, are a way for the local citizenry to make itself heard, while this forum is a last resort and should not be a means of pressure.
And of course, how can one express an educated opinion without having seen the Edmund Levy report ?
Victor T. Herzlia
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Jeannine Kay
4:07 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Of course, what a question. First of all there isn’t such a thing as the west bank, that was a name given to it by Jordan. We’re talking about Judea and Samaria which is Israel proper.
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Izzy Baum
4:16 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Unlike the first responder, I too am an Jewish American, and I fervenly support the Levy recommendation,For the public record, notwithstanding the lies and falsehoods of the Arabs, there was never A so called Palestinian soveriegny in the Judea and Samaria, and hence, the territory, is at worst ” disputed, and more rightly the historical homeland of the Jewish Peaple.
So Yes, I agree.
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Yirmi Szanton
4:24 pm
Jul 10, 2012
This report finally gives the historical as well as legal status to the debate on the land. It’s about time. In addition it would seem to knock the foundations of the Israeli Left out from under it regarding the position of “illegal” settlements, by Jews, in the territory taken as a result of the Six Day’s War. If “legal”, then the only opposition to setlement which can now be supported is that it will- even though legal- cause Palestinians and the Arabs to refrain from making peace with Israel. Again the illusion of “land concessions for peace” surfaces, despite having been proved to be a mirage dream. End humiliating concessions: we are home and we will settle in our land.
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EliLev
4:43 pm
Jul 10, 2012
I fully agreed with the conclusions of the report. As there never was a “Palestinian” state, the territories are not “Palestinians”. Decades ago, a well respected international law expert (Dr. E. Stone, I think) reached the same conclusion. The westbang was occuoied by Jordan between 1948 to 1967. Thus, it was liberated, not occupied. And, since Jordan renounced any claim to the territories, Israel has the right to build on any publicly owned property.
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Sarah
4:45 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Please use the correct names: Yehuda ve Shomron (or Judea and Samaria), and not West Bank. Also: Arabs (who lived in what the Romans called Palestine), and not Palestinians.
And keep up the good work!
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mike
4:55 pm
Jul 10, 2012
The Levy report is the first thing that ever made sense in the Middle East. The West bank is part of Israel, there was never a Palestine and Israel won the land fairly from Jordan.
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Israeli American
5:22 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Yes, definitely, it’s about time, although there have been many discussions on the legality of Israel’s sovereignty over Judea-Samaria. I’ve chosen to live in Judea in fact, so I’m voting with my feet, not just words. In a to-be-expected reaction, the US rushed in to condemn our rights & freedoms. Did they even read the study? I doubt it would matter, as legalities are now overlooked in the US. One wonders if the current administration has any interest in maintaining the Constitution, but it IS clear they have no interest in what is true, life-giving, the rule of law. Don’t even bother suggesting they should uphold the rule of G-d which was foundational to the now irrelevant USA. Annex now!
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Leonard KAHN
6:53 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Yes, the government should apot the Levy report BUT keep their mouth shut about it. All they have done is to invite world comdemnation.
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Gary Katz
7:08 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Israel can simply annex the small portion of the West Bank on which the settlements sit. Then it has more defensible borders, keeps the settlements intact and doesn’t have to worry about another 2 million Arab “citizens.”
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john
7:16 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Sure, but it all doesn’t mean much. Here are a few correlated questions.
1) will the Attorney General replace the Sasson findings?
2) will the court apply Levy’s findings?
3) will the world demand that it must not be recognized?
So far the JPost has a report that America is calling the report wrong-headed. I doubt the rest of the world will be more considerate.
The JPost indicated that Livni points out that it doesn’t matter as long as we are in the process of negotiating.
I think everyone know that the Arabs will never agree to anything less then the end of Israel, yet the world demands that Israel bend over to support the (non-existing) Two State solution.
Levy’s report does not fit.
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heny tobias
7:28 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Levy’s report follows the views of the late Julius Stone an Australian professor of International Law, and the late Eugene Rostow of the American State Department, who both agreed that Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria is legal under international law. The Israeli towns are therefore also legal.
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Mortimer Levy
7:36 pm
Jul 10, 2012
Does it really matter what we Jews or Israelis think ??? M.L.
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Naftali
7:37 pm
Jul 10, 2012
The Levy report shows that Israeli settlements in Yehuda and Shomron are legal according to international law. That report should therefore be adopted by the Israeli government if they have any guts which I sometimes doubt. If the world thinks we should commit suicide, we do not have to oblige them. I have thought for some time based on the evidence that anybody who believes in the two state solution is dilusianal since the Arab’s goal is really a one state solution in which there are no Jews left.
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frank
9:07 pm
Jul 10, 2012
I fervently support the Levy recommendation. For the public record, notwithstanding the lies and falsehoods of the Arabs, there was never a so called Palestinian sovereignty in the Judea and Samaria, and hence, the territory, is rightly the historical homeland of the Jewish People. This has been Jewish homeland for 3,500 years. Build on it and live on it as it is Israel’s.
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Fautier souop Alain Josue
9:42 pm
Jul 10, 2012
I am stunned to listen to those who are expecting anything else than the legalization of the settlements . I was shocked and still confused after learning that South Africa and then the presbyterians church in the U.S decided the boycott of products coming from the settlements and companies operating in these areas.
Ariel Sharon disengaged unilaterally from Gaza in 2005 forcibly withdrawing settlements established there. The move was expected to boost the peace process. But no result was obtained. I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE LEGALIZATION OF THE SETTLEMENTS.
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