Dr. Jacques Gauthier, an expert in international law: "It is important that Israel knows about their historical rights" • The full interview - tomorrow in the San Remo Conference Supplement in "Israel Today"
Dr. Jacques Gauthier
Dr. Jacques Gauthier of Canada, who specializes in international law, has in the last generation become the greatest expert living today on the subject of the San Remo Conference, where the legal infrastructure for the Jewish state was established in 1920. He has much to say about Israel's legal rights throughout the country. Western Israel, including Judea and Samaria.
"This is a crucial question," he says of the importance of the legal basis for the existence of the State of Israel.
"For Israel and the Jewish people, it is very important today to know and not to forget what was given to the Jewish people in the past. "And property is not for them? This is the claim that Jews are not allowed to live in certain territories within the Land of Israel, so the question of law and sovereignty in the territories is crucial and essential;
Today is a time when the legal field has become on the one hand a propaganda arena, by left-wing organizations and by the Palestinians, and on the other hand a political arena.
For the past 20 years, there has been open talk about what is called Lawfare.
According to Dr. Gautier, in Israel there is not a sufficient understanding and recognition of the historical rights of the State of Israel as a Jewish state.
"If you do not know your rights, you also do not know how they are working against you," says Gautier. That your sovereignty is controlled under conditions of occupation does not mean that you have lost your rights. "I oppose the expression 'Occupied Palestinian Territory,'" he concludes.
The full interview - tomorrow in the supplement of the San Remo Conference in "Israel Today"
