The Real Aggressor is Russia.

Submitted by Wallace Brand (United States), Sep 9, 2013 at 23:47

Soviet Russia's dezinformatsiya invented the "Palestinian Arab People" when it drafted the PLO charter in Moscow in 1964. Why? The natural law right of self determination that is becoming a part of International Law. It says every "people" has the right of self determination. See, e.g. International Convetion on Civil and Political Rights. That is a good way for Russia to make war against Israel by creating and then supporting the "Palestinian Arab People's" right of self-determination. Some say "territorial integrity" generally trumps the "right of self determination" but others say that does not apply within a state. Another exception to the general rule is where a minority within a state is much oppressed. It's hard to avoid "The Narrative of Perpetual Palestinian Victimhood" despite the available evidence that shows that the original settlers that drained the swamps and rid Palestine of malaria brought a great benefit to it. See: George Gilder, The Economics of Settlement. Also read in detail all the benefits that the Jews brought to Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem in Efraim Karsh's article "What Oppression" And see in the Gatestone Archive, Shelby Steeles article on the foregoing narrative that has become a "poetic truth" that can't be dented by facts, logic or reason.

That everyone has a right to political self determination is a wonderful truth. But no one has ever said precisely where and when it applies. Are the US and other states violating the rules of the UN by pushing Israell to negotiate with those who claim to have the rights of self determination, despite 52 states, including the US having approved the Mandate for Palestine in 1922 that laid the foundation for Israel's sovereignty. In 1920 the Principal Allied War Powers by adopting the Balfour Declaration at San Remo implicitly denied Arabs within Palestine the right of self determination. See: Brand, Roots of Israel's Sovereignty and Boundaries in International Law: In Defense of the Levy Regport http://www.think-israel.org/brand.alleged occupation.html Will this growing obsession with the human right for self determination in Obam's lecture to students in Israel and in other UN resolutions be effective to reverse their ruling?

Professor Rostow, examining the claim for Palestinian's self-determination on the bases of law, concludes:

"The mandate implicitly denies Arab claims to national political rights in the area in favour of the Jews; the mandated territory was in effect reserved to the Jewish people for their self-determination and political development, in acknowledgment of the historic connection of the Jewish people to the land. Lord Curzon, who was then the British Foreign Minister, made this reading of the mandate explicit. There remains simply the theory that the Arab inhabitants of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip have an inherent "natural law" claim to the area. Neither custom ary international law nor the United Nations Charter acknowledges that every group of people claiming to be a nation has the right to a state of its own." Rostow, The Future of Palestine

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