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YOUNG ISRAEL MOVEMENT ACTION ALERT

Young Israel Movement Reacts To The Shooting
At Bani Naim Junction

(Aug 31) National Council of Young Israel President Shlomo Z. Mostofsky made the following statement today following the deadly shooting of four Israeli citizens, including a pregnant woman, near the city of Hebron:

"The National Council of Young Israel and the International Young Israel Movement mourns the tragic loss of the four innocent Israelis who became the latest victims of a tragic terrorist attack directed at the Jewish State.

This senseless shooting, which comes on the eve of the start of direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, is a stark and painful reminder that the PA is incapable of being a true partner in peace.  While the Palestinian leadership is telling the United States and the world what it believes they want to hear, its citizens are simultaneously carrying out carefully planned and premeditated acts of terror against innocent men, women, and children.

Today's murder of an Israeli family at the Bani Naim junction just south of the holy city of Hebron comes as the Israeli leadership is being pressured to make concessions for the sake of peace, which compromises its security and puts its citizenry at risk.  We hope and pray that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' trip to Washington results in a clear and compelling call for a swift end to the violence and the cessation of the brutal acts of terror that are being perpetrated against the people of Israel.
 
May the Omnipresent comfort the families of the victims among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem."

 
 
 

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 Eli E. Hertz 
 
Proximity Talks (2)
Palestinian Arab aggression against the territorial integrity and political independence of Israel cannot and should not be rewarded.
"No Legal Right Shall Spring from Wrong" [1] 
 
"Territorial rights under international law ... By their [Arab countries, E.H.] armed attacks against the State of Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973, and by various acts of belligerency throughout this period, these Arab states flouted their basic obligations as United Nations members to refrain from threat or use of force against Israel’s territorial integrity and political independence. These acts were in flagrant violation inter alia of [UN, E.H.] Article 2(4) and paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of the same article." [2]
Because the Arabs were clearly the aggressors, nowhere in UN Security Council Resolutions 242 or 338 - the cornerstones of a peace settlement - is Israel branded as an invader or occupier of the Territories and there is no call for Israel to withdraw from all the Territories. Palestinians allegations that the wording of 242 was 'deliberately ambiguous' or misconstrued are unfounded.
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Proximity Talks (1)
Palestinian Arab aggression against the territorial integrity and political independence of Israel cannot and should not be rewarded.
 
Professor, Judge Schwebel, the former President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) explains why Israel has the better title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem:
"(a) a state [Israel] acting in lawful exercise of its right of self-defense may seize and occupy foreign territory as long as such seizure and occupation are necessary to its self-defense;
"(b) as a condition of its withdrawal from such territory, that State may require the institution of security measures reasonably designed to ensure that that territory shall not again be used to mount a threat or use of force against it of such a nature as to justify exercise of self-defense;
"(c) Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully [Jordan]; the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense [Israel] has, against that prior holder, better title.
 
"As between Israel, acting defensively in 1948 and 1967, on the one hand, and her Arab neighbors, acting aggressively, in 1948 and 1967, on the other, Israel has the better title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem."
 
The 'Two Jerusalems' Myth

Palestinians have nurtured a myth that historically there were two Jerusalems - an Arab 'East Jerusalem' and a Jewish 'West Jerusalem.'
Jerusalem was never an Arab city; Jews have held a majority in Jerusalem since 1870, and 'east-west' is a geographic, not political designation. It is no different than claiming the Eastern shore of Maryland should be a separate political entity from the rest of the state.  continue reading the article click here

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