Human Rights scholar Anne Bayefsky tells Americans to do everything they can to ensure that US President Barack Obama exercises US veto power in order to prevent the adoption of a UN Security Council resolution against Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
Bayefsky, an expert on international human rights law, equality rights and constitutional human rights law, explains why the resolution is extremely dangerous – for so many reasons.
Here are Ms. Bayefsky’s main points:
1) Such a Resolution cannot be reversed because any attempts to reverse it, say by the next President or Congress, would encounter a veto from Russia and/or China.
2) Such a Resolution is contrary to all past agreements between Israel and the Arabs.
3) Such a Resolution pre-determines a major issue that must be decided between the sides to the conflict.
4) Such a Resolution reverses US fundamental policy that peace must only come through direct negotiations.
5) Such a Resolution legitimizes BDS, out-lawed by many US States.
6) Such a Resolution is a direct message to the International Criminal Court to proceed with a declaration that Jewish “settlements” constitute a war crime.
Israel must build at least 100,000 housing units per year in Judea and Samaria for the next 10 years and more. It also needs to build 3 secure superhighway connecting Judea and Samaria to Israel.
Construct extensive military bases in Judea and Samaria to protect the people and the country.
Israel also needs to build at least 50,000 housing units per year in greater Jerusalem. Open Atarot airport and a high tech center and more industry, and build many additional roads and secure highways in and from Jerusalem with expanded rail system.
Israel must also build a minimum of 10,000 housing units in the Galil and 10,000 housing units in the Negev every year for the next ten years and expand the infrastructure, roads and highways. They have to expand industry and commerce to enhance the desire of people to live in the Galil and the Negev.
Construct military bases and local agencies in Judea and Samaria to protect and help the people and the country.
YJ Draiman
P.S. The Arabs have already an Arab Palestinian state which is on Jewish land over three times the size of Israel, east of the Jordan River; it is called Jordan where 80% of the population are Arab Palestinians and the Arabs in Judea and Samaria have a Jordanian passport.
Oslo accords are null and void. Israel must dismantle the Arab PA and include Judea and Samaria as a continuous part of Israel. Transfer Arab population to Jordan, Gaza and to the homes and the over 120,000 sq. km. the Arab countries confiscated from the Million Jewish families they expelled who now reside in Israel.