Israelis were warned on illegality of settlements

[amanondeathrow]

03/11/06 "The Independent" -- -- Israeli ministers were secretly warned just after the Six-Day War in 1967 that any policy of building settlements across occupied Palestinian territories violated international law. Source (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12286.htm)

[Dean]

The U.N. in 1975:
"THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY,


RECALLING its resolution 1904 (XVIII) of 20 November 1963,
proclaiming the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, and in particular its affirmation that "any doctrine of
racial differentiation or superiority is scientifically false, morally
condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous" and its expression of alarm at "the
manifestations of racial discrimination still in evidence in some areas in the
world, some of which are imposed by certain Governments by means of legislative,
administrative or other measures",


RECALLING ALSO that, in its resolution 3151 G (XXVIII) of 14
December 1953, the General Assembly condemned, inter alia, the unholy alliance
between South African racism and Zionism,


TAKING NOTE of the Declaration of Mexico on the Equality of
Women and Their Contribution to Development and Peace 1975, proclaimed by the
World Conference of the Intenrational Women's Year, held at Mexico City from 19
June to 2 July 1975, which promulgated the principle that "international
co-operation and peace require the achievement of national liberation and
independence, the elimination of colonialism and neo-colonialism, foreign
occupation, Zionism,
apartheid and racial discrimination in all its forms, as well as the recognition
of the dignity of peoples and their right to self-determination",


TAKING NOTE ALSO of resolution 77 (XII) adopted by the Assembly
of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its
twelfth ordinary session, held at Kampala from 28 July to 1 August 1975, which
considered "that the racist regime in occupied Palestine and the racist regime
in Zimbabwe and South Africa have a comon imperialist origin, forming a whole
and having the same racist structure and being organically linked in their
policy aimed at repression of the dignity and integrity of the human being",


TAKING NOTE ALSO of the Political Declaration and Strategy to
Strengthen International Peace and Security and to Intensify Solidarity and
Mutual Assistance among Non-Aligned Countries, adopted at the Conference of
Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Non-Aligned Countries held at Lima from 25 to
30 August 1975, which most severely condemned Zionism as a threat to world
peace and security and called upon all countries to oppose this racist and
imperalist ideology,


DETERMINES that Zionism is a form of racism
and racial discrimination. "

[ComradeOm]

Israel has been warned many times that the settlements were illegal. In this regard the UN's position has been perfectly clear.

[Dean]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2006, 07:33 PM
Israel has been warned many times that the settlements were illegal. In this regard the UN's position has been perfectly clear.
The U.N. reversed it's claim that Zionism was racist in 1991.

[ComradeOm]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2006, 11:55 PM
The U.N. reversed it's claim that Zionism was racist in 1991.
The UN maintains that Israeli forces in the West Bank are an occupying force on occupied land. Correct? If so there are a whole raft of obligations and "do not"s that Israel is expected to comply as befitting its role. Of course Israel ignores these but that is not the point.