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To: boris_a who wrote (34999)	7/25/2002 12:30:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As for the Israeli settlements: this is clearly a violation of international law No, the situation is not so simple. Those who say it's a violation of international law claim that the territories were Jordanian or Egyptian, Israel invaded and occupied, and so, it's illegal. But the territories were part of the Mandate of Palestine in 1948 and their occupation by the Egyptians and Jordanians was never internationally recognized. The last recognized administrators of the land were the Brits. So this is not a simple case of Country A occupying Country B's land, but rather, trading one unrecognized occupation for another. (Also, international law distinguishes between aggressive and defensive wars, but I won't even go into that now) Under the Mandate of Palestine, the Jews did have the right to settle in the West Bank, and some of the first "settlements" that the Israelis made were recovering property that had belonged to Jews in 1948, but had been seized by Jordan when the Jordanians ethnically cleansed the West Bank of Jews in 1948 -- This includes the Gush Etzion settlement blok, Gilo, and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. This is why the Israeli government calls the territories "disputed".