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Government needs Biden to know: We are not occupying our country Israel today

2021-01-20T22:02:02.311Z


| Political-political With the entry of the new president into the White House we need to make him a clear statement: Judea and Samaria are not occupied territory, and the settlements are not illegal • Opinion It is time to take out of the lobby the arsenal of arguments that were less needed in the Trump era, and to refresh the discourse of rights on Jerusalem and also on the territories of Judea and Samaria, where ab


With the entry of the new president into the White House we need to make him a clear statement: Judea and Samaria are not occupied territory, and the settlements are not illegal • Opinion

It is time to take out of the lobby the arsenal of arguments that were less needed in the Trump era, and to refresh the discourse of rights on Jerusalem and also on the territories of Judea and Samaria, where about half a million Jews already live today.

The inauguration moment of Biden - a sworn opponent of the settlements and settlement in East Jerusalem - as well as their placement in positions of influence of figures like Samantha Power, necessitates this.

"I will be the president of all Americans";

Joe Biden sworn in in Washington // Photo: Reuters

Israel has already begun quiet talks with the administration on the Iranian nuclear issue.

It clarified its determination to prevent, by military force if necessary, the establishment of Iranian branches on our northern border.

But conspicuous by its lack of demonstration of determination on the issue of settlements.

There is less construction, and the annual rate of population growth is declining.

Moreover, amid concerns over the new administration's position in Washington, Netanyahu has for the past two months refrained from regulating dozens of young localities that are threatened with demolition, freezing, evacuation and even alleged illegality.

He also halted the promotion of plans to establish Atarot, the largest Jewish neighborhood in north Jerusalem.

Recall: Faced with a policy of "not even one stone" during the Obama and Hillary Clinton era, Israel has already frozen construction in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. We must not go back to those days. Care must be taken not to fall into the trap of "construction by natural multiplication" or a small accounting of congestion in the field The built-up area in the settlements (only 1.7% of Judea and Samaria), and of course - do not settle for construction only in "blocks".

The Biden administration needs to hear from us already at this stage a clear statement: Judea and Samaria are not occupied territory.

The settlements are not illegal.

"We did not conquer a foreign land or our own foreign property, but the land of our ancestors ..." (Shimon the Hasmonean).

We do not occupy our country.

We are bound to it by the thickets of love, the Bible, heritage, nature, landscape, religion, history and sanctity. In the face of the new administration in Washington must again use the Balfour Declaration, the San Remo Declaration, the UN Charter, the mandate given to Britain by the League of Nations;

In everything that is relevant to our historical and legal rights in Judea and Samaria.

In a reversal of logic, which has already been proven in the Obama era, which is not entirely unfounded - what we did not dare in front of a friend like Trump, we may dare against an opponent like Baidan: build the Atarot, build the E-1 neighborhood, which will connect Ma'ale Adumim to Jerusalem, Jerusalem, to release policy restrictions that block construction throughout Judea and Samaria and of course to regulate the young settlement.

Such conduct, both in message and in deed, would make it clear to the new administration, but first and foremost to ourselves, that the Obama administration's finish line on the settlement issue - Security Council Resolution 2334 in December 2016, which defined Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem as a "blatant violation of international law." She's a non-starter, we'm not there anymore.

Source: israelhayom

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