To Whom was the Promised Land, promised?

By Ted Belman

Abraham Sion is about to publish his new book, To Whom was the Promised Land, promised? Some Fundamental Truths About The Arab-Israeli Conflict

And he is no slouch:  “Professor of Law at Ariel University, Israel. LL.B.  Hebrew University Jerusalem, Ph.D.  Cambridge University, U.K., Visiting professor at Stanford University, California, U.S.A. 2015-2016′” He was also Chair, The Center for Law and Mass Media at Ariel U.

The answer of course is certainly not the Arabs, either historically or legally.

The first paragraph of the introduction reads;

It has often been stated that Judea and Samaria (widely known as the West Bank),(1) East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip constitute Palestinian Arab territory. This view became almost axiomatic in the parlance of international organizations such as the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the majority of legal scholars. As a result, the international community has considered the establishment of Israeli settlements in these areas illegal under international law, violating Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949. These international bodies have all affirmed that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to the West Bank. So did the representatives of the High Contracting Parties to the reconvened Geneva Convention, who declared in 2014 that the settlements were illegal,(2) as did the ICJ and the ICRC.

This book and his article THE FALSE PALESTINIAN NARRATIVE, set the record straight.

He advises that “The book proves, based on British and international documents, that according to international law the Arabs have acquired no national rights west of the river Jordan, a fact that questions UN and ICJ decisions on Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria.”