100 legal experts from Israel and the world in a letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Ignoring Israel's claims in the context of applying sovereignty - wrongful and intellectual dishonesty"
Ma'aleh Adumim // Photo: Reuters
In preparation for the sovereignty that Israel is considering in Judea and Samaria, 100 jurists from Israel and the world are issuing an opinion stating that the procedure is not contrary to international law.
The letter from the International Legal Forum states that "the sovereign status of the West Bank has been controversial for a long time. The legal experts.
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In a letter of reinforcement sent to Prime Minister Netanyahu, they emphasize that the question of who belongs to the territories of Judea and Samaria is a political rather than a legal issue. "The claims that the application of Israel's law, jurisdiction and administration to the territories are the same as" unilateral annexation ", which will result in" international wrongdoing ", both misleading and bias. Prejudice to the legality of the policy, ignoring one party's claims (Israel ;) Is a wrongful act and an intellectual dishonesty, "they write.
On the letter of legitimacy to signed sovereignty, among others, Dr. Cynthia Day Wallace, former senior advisor to the UN Secretary General; Dr. Mathis de Blois, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Prof. Melvina Halberstam, of the Yeshiva University Law School; Nicholas Rostov, Senior Research Fellow at Yale Law School; And Attorney Daniel Sarota, came from Queen's Force, UK.
Adv. Yifah Segal, chairman of the International Legal Forum, which has about 3,000 jurists from around the world, says that "political and legal discourse must be distinguished once and for all. In applying sovereignty, the State of Israel does not violate the rules of international law."