"Unlike a treaty agreement, customary international law is usually not written." So Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, is siding with those that say that Israel is not following international law about East Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria. He, a north Korean, who attended U. of Washington and has a Doctor of Law from there and from Harvard, doesn't exhibit any knowledge about the problems between Israel and the surrounding Arab states who have kept attacking since 1948. He started serving in the UN in this capacity in 2007 and will remain until 2016. Ban Ki-moon has a Masters in public administration from Harvard, but I don't see anything about him being an international lawyer anywhere.
There are plenty of actual international lawyers who side with Israel in that they have the right to live and build in Judea and Samaria and to include East Jerusalem as part and parcel of all of Jerusalem, their capital today and past capital in their ancient history.
The Washington Times lists some excellent reasons why Israel is not acting illegally according to international law.
The San Remo Treaty of 1920, in which the victorious World War I allies dealt with the remnants of the defeated Ottoman Turkish Empire, created an entity called Palestine along both sides of the Jordan River. The powers intended it as the land on which Great Britain would turn its 1917 Balfour Declaration from aspiration to reality, assisting the Zionist movement in re-establishing the Jewish national home.
The Franco-British Boundary Convention of 1920 demarcated the French mandate for what would become Syria and Lebanon from that of the British in Palestine. This was in part to prepare for the Jewish state.
Article 6 of the League of Nations’ 1922 Palestine Mandate encouraged “close Jewish settlement” on the land west of the Jordan River. The mandate encouraged settlement only west of the river because Great Britain in the same year unilaterally severed Transjordan (today’s Jordan) from Palestine, creating a new Arab country.
The Anglo-American Convention of 1924 saw the United States endorse British administration of the remaining Palestine Mandate lands, so long as London helped bring a Jewish state into being.
The 1945 U.N. Charter, Chapter XII, Article 80, continues Jewish rights recognized under the Mandate. It protects “the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments” and is sometimes known as “the Palestine article.”
Israel has followed the rules established by Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann and the mandate. It was not Israel who turned against the Arabs but the Arabs who attacked the new state of Israel.
Monday is "Hate Israel Day" at the United Nations. This is despicable.
"Israel will be absent, as it has
been for the past year. The creation of the settlements probe -- the seventh
one-sided inquiry on Israel since the council's supposed reform in 2006, during
which time it generated but five probes on the rest of the world combined, and
none ever on Iran, China, or Sri Lanka -- was the last straw for then foreign
minister Avigdor Lieberman, who decided Israel would no longer participate
in, or with, the council."
"Headlining the program this time will be the presentation of a report by a "Fact Finding Mission" on how Israeli settlements are the direct cause of all Palestinian ills. The probe was a sham, its verdict having been declared in advance.
"Also on the program will be three additional UN reports condemning Israel, including one that devotes several pages to accusations by Cuba and Syria that Israel is grossly violating human rights in the Golan Heights. The world's worst abusers will then take the floor and emit vitriol." The Golan Heights a part of Israel. Syria is accusing Israel of abusing children. Nobody is saying a thing about Syria killing off 70,000 of its own people, of course, including Ban Ki-moon. Of all the nations in the world, Israel is the last to abuse its own children.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/9/rozenman-ban-ki-moon-wrong-about-israeli-settlemen/#ixzz2Np5gDDDK
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http://www.un.org/sg/biography.shtml on Ban Ki-moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ban_Ki-moon
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