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1 Danger: Lawfare against Israel:
Many senior Israeli public figures have identified lawfare against Israel as a strategic threat against Israel and the world Jewish community. The chief lawfare argument is that Israel's settlements in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) - crucial for cushioning Israel's large population centers -- are illegal.
Sadly, even the President of the United States has lately participated http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=anotAubNjcWE in the effort to de-legitimize Israel, by hinting at this very allegation ("We continue to emphasize that America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements" - Barack Obama, 23 September 2009 speech, United Nations General Assembly).
However often the allegation is repeated for various political reasons, the "Israeli settlements are illegal" charge is nonsense. Please therefore assist Israel by forwarding the following full scholarly response http://www.aijac.org.au/resources/reports/international_law.pdf (the response is actually an excerpt of an even more detailed scholarly work by Julius Stone) to your senator, your congressman, your rabbi, your newspaper, and your electronic mailing list. Urge them to defend Israel against this charge rigorously, each time this charge is made in their presence.
Credentials for the author of the scholarly response, Julius Stone: According to Harvard Law School's Professor David Kennedy, Stone "was a lion of international jurisprudence, his influence as a theorist and innovator felt by generations of students and scholars." For more: http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/jurisprudence/juliusstone.shtml
Help Israel -- defend Israel against lawfare.
2 Well produced cartoon on Israel and its Jewish history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vi8B0l63B8 - pass it on!
Thanks for helping Israel.
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