The Pals., though, would like you to see it that way:
Israel announced Sunday it supports the Middle East Quartet's call for direct talks with Palestinians to resume within a month.
In a statement, the Israeli prime minister's office said Israel "welcomes the quartet's call for direct negotiations between the parties without preconditions."
"While Israel has some concerns, it will raise them at the appropriate time," the statement added. "Israel calls on the Palestinian Authority to do the same and to enter into direct negotiations without delay."
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has said repeatedly that the Palestinians would not return to negotiations until Israel halts all settlement construction and accepts 1967 border lines as a basis for the return to talks.
"If Israel accepts the quartet offer it means that they stop all settlement activity including natural growth and agree to an agreement based on 1967 borders, because the quartet explained that both sides are obliged to follow the conditions of the roadmap," top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Sunday. "We want to hear from them. If they accept these conditions, these are good news. Without accepting them, that is bad news, that is cheating. This government is playing a game of deceit."
Let's be quite clear:
Construction of and residency in communities built by Jews in the territory of the former Mandate of Palestine cannot be considered acts that are either illegal, illegitimate or otherwise impermissable or thought of as "war crimes" and the such. The right of "close settlement by Jews [Art. 6]" on the lands of the Mandate, which encompassed Judea, Samaria and Gaza, was enshired in the League of Nations decision, itself based on a series of decisions and agreements that achieved status of international law between 1915 and 1924.
Moreover, if this framework were to be applied to Israel, would it be acceptable for Israel to expell 1 million Arabs as the Palestinian Authority wishes done to Jews of Judea and Samaria?
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Legality depends on the eye of the beholder.
The point though is Jewish rights are not subject to the whims of the international community. They are non-negotiable and are inalienable.
International instruments did not create or grant those rights to the Jews and cannot take them away. They merely affirmed their existence.
None of the current discussions about a hypothetical Palestinian Arab state will change this fact in the future.
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