Sunday, August 26, 2007

CAMERA's response to "CNN's Abomination"

The website 'camera.org' had a great response to the CNN documentary "God's Jewish warriors", a few of the points they made that I found interesting are the following:

Amanpour says: "But it is also Palestinian land. The West Bank - it's west of the Jordan River - was designated by the United Nations to be the largest part of an Arab state." This is highly deceptive. The United Nations 1947 Partition Plan proposed dividing all the land west of the Jordan into a Jewish and an Arab state; the Arabs rejected the plan, choosing instead to launch a war to eliminate Israel. The land did not become "Palestinian land" via this UN Plan. Likewise, UN Security Council Resolution 242, passed after the Six Day War, underscored that territorial adjustments related to the West Bank were to be expected.

The following is correct, however at the same time, it may not have been "Palestinians" land, because there was no such thing as "Palestinians" at that time, however, it was given to Arabs. The question I have is, when one nation rejects a United Nation plan and attacks the other nation involved in the plan, does that nation have a right to now fall back and accept that plan after they lost?

A quote that distubrs me from the documentary as well is:

Six thousand miles from Israel's settlements, in the heart of Manhattan, defiance of international law comes dressed in diamonds.

I don't know, it just seems like a very serious accusation to make, especially when she only interviewed one side of the story. She had an obvious bias in this segment.

Regarding Israel’s acquisition of territories in the 1967 war, it is written (from camera.org):

Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense has, against that prior holder, better title. ("What Weight to Conquest," American Journal of International Law, 64 (1970))

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