Jerusalem News (19 January 2017, 21 Tevet, 5777)
Contents:
1. French Court Decision Ignored by Media! Israel Owns the West Bank!!
2. Britain and Australia On the Side of Israel and Against Europe!
Britain again breaks ranks with Europe, this time over Israel By Cnaan Liphshiz       Â
3. The Paris Conference 70 Nations Against Israel!
The descent of the nations. Rebelling against G-d's Will is never successful.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana
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1. French Court Decision Ignored by Media! Israel Owns the West Bank!!
Israel is the legal occupant of the West Bank, says the Court of Appeal of Versailles, France Publie par Jean-Patrick Grumberg le 13 janvier 2017
http://www.dreuz.info/2017/01/13/israel-is-the-legal-occupant-of-the-west-bank-says-the-court-of-appeal-of-versailles-france/
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 For French court decision:
http://fr.slideshare.net/yohanntaieb3/decision-de-lacourdappel?
 www.imra.org.il
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In a historical trial carefully 'forgotten' by the media, the 3rd Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Versailles declares that Israel is the legal occupant of the West Bank*.
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When I first learned that the Court of Appeal of Versailles ruled that West bank settlements and occupation of Judea Samaria by Israel is unequivocally legal under international law, in a suit brought by the Palestinian Authority against Jerusalem's light rail built by French companies Alstom and Veolia, that received no media coverage, I decided to put to work my years of Law Studies in France, and I meticulously analyzed the Court ruling.
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To make sure I did not overestimate my legal abilities and that I wasn't over optimistic, as usual-, I submitted my analysis and the Court papers to one of the most prominent French lawyer, Gilles-William Goldnadel, President of Lawyers without borders, to receive his legal opinion. He indeed validated my finding.
First and foremost, the Versailles Court of Appeals had to determine the legal rights of Palestinians and Israelis in West Bank. Their conclusion:
Palestinians have no right ' in the international legal sense' to the region, unlike Israel, who is legitimately entitled to occupy all land beyond the 67 line.
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The context :
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In the 90s, Israel bid for the construction of the Jerusalem light rail. The tender was won by French companies Veolia and Alstom. The light rail was completed in 2011, and it cross Jerusalem all the way to the east side and the 'occupied territories'.
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Following this, the PLO filed a complaint with the High Court (Tribunal de Grande Instance) of Versailles France, against Alstom and Veolia, because according to PLO, ' the construction of the tram is illegal since the UN, the EU, many NGOs and governments consider that ' Israel illegally occupy Palestinian territories '.
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The quest for the International Legislation to establish the rights of each party.
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In order to rule whether the light rail construction was legal or not, the court had to seek the texts of international law, to examine international treaties, in order to establish the respective rights of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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And to my knowledge, this is the first time that a non-Israeli court has been led to rule on the status of the West Bank.
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Why is this an historical ruling: it is the first international case since the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948
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It is the first time since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 that an independent, non-Israeli court has been called upon to examine the legal status of West bank territories under international law, beyond the political claims of the parties.
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Keep in mind though, that the Court's findings have no effect in international law. What they do, and it's of the utmost importance, is to clarify the legal reality.
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Referring to the texts on which the PLO claim is based, the Court of Appeal considers that Israel is entitled to ensure order and public life in the West Bank, therefore Israel has the right to build a light rail, infrastructure and dwellings.
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Israeli occupation does not violate any international law
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This is the first time that a Court has legally destroyed all Palestinian legal claim that Israel's occupation is illegal.
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2. Britain and Australia On the Side of Israel and Against Europe!
Britain again breaks ranks with Europe, this time over Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz January 17, 2017 3:20pm      Â
http://www.jta.org/2017/01/17/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/britain-again-breaks-ranks-with-europe-this-time-over-israel?utm_source=Newsletter+subscribers&utm_campaign=1d2023d3c1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2dce5bc6f8-1d2023d3c1-28733129
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(JTA) Two days after delegates from more than 70 nations attended the Paris summit on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is clear that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was wrong to label the meeting 'useless.'
Admittedly the France-initiated event, which neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority attended, did not change the international community's understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Nor did the gathering take any concrete steps to end the dispute.
But it was neither insignificant nor useless from Israel's point of view. The summit saw Great Britain break ranks with the countries that did attend in a move that pleased Israel and perhaps the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
Instead of demonstrating international consensus as intended by France under President Francois Hollande, the summit turned into a showdown between France and the United Kingdom over Israel. In an unprecedented manner, the rift exposed disagreements within a brittle European Union that is bracing for potentially turbulent relations with the United States under Trump.
The first sign of dissent happened before the summit even began, when the United Kingdom dispatched only junior diplomats. By contrast, Hollande attended, as did 36 foreign ministers, including the U.S. secretary of state, John Kerry.
Then, the United Kingdom, along with Australia, declined to join 70 other nations in co-signing a relatively mild statement about preserving the two-state solution...
It was a stunning about-face that even caught longtime observers of Anglo-Israeli relations by surprise.
'It was a watershed moment for U.K.-Israel relations and a huge change from anything I had seen before,' he said, adding that the United Kingdom typically sides with its allies on policies toward the Jewish state.
The British 'snub,' as The Guardian termed it, of the Paris peace summit pleased Israeli diplomats, who openly dismissed the event as doomed to fail because it did not address the Palestinian Authority's refusal to negotiate without preconditions, in this case, a public commitment by Israel to halt construction in eastern Jerusalem and the West Bank.
The British position was highly unexpected.
The British move in Paris, he told JTA, is the result of a mix of factors, including a 'desire to assert independence from the European Union, ' which the British government under Prime Minister Theresa May is committed to leaving as per the result of a June referendum over the issue. May replaced David Cameron as prime minister last year as a result of the Brexit referendum.
Hoffman also attributed the apparent British about-face primarily to a Trump intervention.
'It's such a dramatic departure from what we have seen in the past that a Trump intervention is the only thing that makes sense,' he said.
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3. The Paris Conference 70 Nations Against Israel!
The descent of the nations. Rebelling against G-d's Will is never successful.
by Rabbi Nachman Kahana, 19/01/17 07:52
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20066
Note:
Rabbi Nachman Kahana is an Orthodox Rabbinic Scholar, Rav of Chazon Yechezkel Synagogue, Â Young Israel of the Old City of Jerusalem, Founder and Director of the Center for Kohanim, and Author of the 14-volume 'Mei Menuchot' series on Tosefot, 'With All Your Might: The Torah of Eretz Yisrael in the Weekly Parashah'.
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As we depart from the weekly Torah readings of the book of Genesis... The Torah begins with the overwhelming, mind-challenging phenomena of creation and closes with the death and internment of Joseph, signaling the beginning of Am [the people of] Yisrael's subjugation....
... Here begins the process of creating out of 70 free-will idolatrous coarse, crude, egotistic, narcissistic, self-obsessed, pompous, prideful, self-complacent, vain, murderous nations, one unique nation that will be destined to achieve sanctity over and beyond the level of the heavenly angels.
The creation of this holy nation from out of the 70 gentile root nations is no less dramatic than the creation of matter from nothingness; if only because no human eye witnessed the act of creation, whereas the survival and spiritual evolution of Am Yisrael gathers form in every generation, notwithstanding the efforts expended by the gentiles to challenge Hashem's declaration at Sinai (Shemot 19,5-6):
Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of Kohanim and a holy nation.
This week, in Paris, France, representatives of 70 nations gathered to dictate to Am Yisrael the parameters of our future in Eretz Yisrael; what we may or may not do in our own land.
The number 70 is more than symbolic. It is a total replay of humanity's repeated attempts to revolt against Hashem by degrading and trampling His people Yisrael in the holy land.
Hashem created humanity and all that exists ex nihilo - from nothing -Â by their hatred toward Am Yisrael, the gentiles will determine their destiny as they revert back into nothingness!