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Israel's Critical Security Requirements Israel's Legal Case: A Guidebook A Jerusalem Center Anthology Published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs at Smashwords Copyright 2012 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Other ebook titles by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs: Israel's Critical Security Requirements for Defensible Borders Israel's Rights as a Nation-State in International Diplomacy Iran: From Regional Challenge to Global Threat The "Al-Aksa Is in Danger" Libel: The History of a Lie Jerusalem: Correcting the International Discourse – How the West Gets Jerusalem Wrong What Israel Has Learned about Security: Nine IDF Officers Discuss Israel’s Security Challenges Israel's Right of Self-Defense: International Law and Gaza Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 13 Tel Hai Street, Jerusalem, Israel Tel. 972-2-561-9281 Fax. 972-2-561-9112 Email: [email protected] - www.jcpa.org ISBN: 9781301868483 * * * * * Contents Foreword Occupation Why Is Israel's Presence in the Territories Still Called “Occupation”? Avinoam Sharon From “Occupied Territories” to “Disputed Territories” Dore Gold Israeli Settlements The Settlements Issue: Distorting the Geneva Convention and the Oslo Accords Alan Baker Diplomatic and Legal Aspects of the Settlement Issue Jeffrey Helmreich Colonialism The Myth of Israel as a Colonialist Entity Dore Gold Apartheid The Campaign to Delegitimize Israel with the False Charge of Apartheid Robbie Sabel The Security Fence Israel's Anti-Terror Fence: The World Court Case Laurence E. Rothenberg and Abraham Bell The ICJ Opinion on the Separation Barrier: Designating the Entire West Bank as "Palestinian Territory" Robbie Sabel Israel's Borders The Evolution of Israel's Boundaries Amb. Yehuda Z. Blum The Misleading Interpretation of UN Security Council Resolution 242 Ruth Lapidoth Notes About the Authors About the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs * * * * * Foreword When critics charge Israel with "occupation," "apartheid," and "colonialism," Israel has good answers. When they claim Israel is building "illegal settlements" and a "separation wall," astute legal scholars have formulated well-reasoned responses to these charges. As questions are raised over the legitimacy and morality of Israel's actions, the authors in this volume see Israel's actions as firmly rooted in international law. The discussions in this volume by recognized experts from Israel and abroad outline Israel's legal case on key issues of international law often raised by Israel's critics. Is Israel still an "occupier"? Lt.-Col. (res.) Avinoam Sharon, a former IDF Military Attorney for Judea, Samaria and Gaza, begins by asking, "Why Is Israel's Presence in the Territories Still Called “Occupation”? The term “occupation” is often employed politically, without regard for its legal meaning, as part of a general assault upon Israel's legitimacy. Iraq was occupied by the Coalition forces from the spring of 2003 until June 28, 2004, at which time authority was handed over to the Iraqi Interim Government. At that point, although Coalition forces remained in Iraq until December 18, 2011, Iraq was no longer deemed occupied. If handing over authority to a Coalition- appointed interim government ended the occupation of Iraq, would the same not hold true for the establishment of the Palestinian Authority and Israel? Amb. Dore Gold, who served as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations (1997-1999) and now heads the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, clarifies that the more correct term to describe the actual legal status of the territories is "disputed" rather than "occupied." He notes in "From 'Occupied Territories' to 'Disputed Territories'” that the politically-loaded term "occupation" seems to apply only to Israel and is hardly ever used when other territorial disputes are discussed. For example, the U.S. State Department refers to Kashmir as "disputed areas." Similarly, it describes the patch of Azerbaijan claimed as an independent republic by indigenous Armenian separatists as "the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh." In territorial disputes from northern Cyprus, to the Kurile Islands, to Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf – in which the land in question was under the previous sovereignty of another state – the term "occupied territory" has not been applied to the territory that had come under one side's military control as a result of armed conflict. Amb. Gold further notes that no internationally recognized sovereign control previously existed in the West Bank and Gaza; Israel took control of the West Bank as a result of a defensive war; under UN Security Council Resolution 242 Israel is not required to withdraw from "all the territories" captured in the Six-Day War of 1967; and that after the Oslo II Interim Agreement of September 1995, 98 percent of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza came under Palestinian jurisdiction. Amb. Alan Baker, former Legal Adviser to Israel's Foreign Ministry and former Ambassador of Israel to Canada, participated in the negotiation and drafting of the various agreements comprising the Oslo Accords. In "The Settlements Issue: Distorting the Geneva Convention and the Oslo Accords," he notes that some in the international community claim that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, but both the text of that convention, and the post-World War II circumstances under which it was drafted, clearly indicate that it was never intended to refer to situations like Israel's settlements. A special regime between Israel and the Palestinians is set out in a series of agreements negotiated between 1993 and 1999 that are still valid – that govern all issues between them, settlements included. In this framework there is no specific provision restricting continued construction by either party. Baker notes that the Palestinians cannot now invoke the Geneva Convention regime in order to bypass previous internationally acknowledged agreements. Jeffrey S. Helmreich, a graduate research fellow in the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and PhD candidate in philosophy and law at UCLA, discusses additional "Diplomatic and Legal Aspects of the Settlement Issue." Helmreich concludes that while one may legitimately support or challenge Israeli settlements in the disputed territories, they are not illegal, and they have neither the size, the population, nor the placement to seriously impact upon the future status of the disputed territories and their Palestinian population centers. Amb. Dore Gold takes on "The Myth of Israel as a Colonialist Entity," seeing it as an instrument of political warfare to delegitimize the Jewish state. Modern Israel's roots preceded the arrival of the British to the Middle East. In that sense Britain was not Israel's mother-country, like France was for Algeria. Indeed, the Jews were already re-establishing their presence independently in their land well before the British and French dismantled the Ottoman Empire. As time went on, the British Empire was the main obstacle to Israel's re-birth. Ironically, most of the Arab states owe their origins to the entry and domination of the European powers. Dr. Robbie Sabel, former Legal Adviser to the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, looks at "The Campaign to Delegitimize Israel with the False Charge of Apartheid," noting that the comparison of Israel to South Africa under white supremist rule has been utterly rejected by those with intimate understanding of the old Apartheid system. Israel is a multi-racial and multi-colored society, and the Arab minority actively participates in the political process. The accusation is made that the very fact that Israel is considered a Jewish state proves an “Apartheid-like” situation. Yet the accusers have not a word of criticism against the tens of liberal democratic states that have Christian crosses incorporated in their flags, nor against the Muslim states with the half crescent symbol of Islam. Israel's security fence in the West Bank, called by its detractors the "Apartheid Wall," is recognized as having saved countless lives as its construction helped break the back of the Palestinian suicide bombing campaign against Jewish civilians during the Second Intifada. Laurence E. Rothenberg, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., and the former editor-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal, and Abraham Bell, a member of the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University, discuss "Israel's Anti- Terror Fence: The World Court Case," noting that the security fence is a necessary and proportional response to a campaign of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by Palestinians. They point out that it was at the insistence of Syria, Egypt, and Jordan that each of the armistice agreements of 1949 specified that the ceasefire lines from 1949 bounding the West Bank – the "green line" – were not borders. This is solely a defunct military line demarcating the extent of the Transjordanian invasion of Israel in 1948. Dr. Robbie Sabel follows with a critique of "The ICJ Opinion on the Separation Barrier: Designating the Entire West Bank as 'Palestinian Territory'." He notes that while the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in its advisory opinion on the legality of Israel's separation barrier uncritically adopted the UN General Assembly phrase "Palestinian territories" as applying to all the territories, the General Assembly is not a global legislature that creates international law through its resolutions. Israel's basic legal rights in the Land of Israel under international law are the focus of Amb. Yehuda Z. Blum, Professor Emeritus of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in his discussion of "The Evolution of Israel's Boundaries." He presents a legal foundation that begins with the League of Nations adoption of the Palestine Mandate on July 22, 1922, which in its preamble incorporated the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917. It further stated that “recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.” Finally, Israel Prize recipient Prof.
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