Occupied Territory Quotes
The principle summarized in Article 5 was then and still is a good summary of collective international law on the subject. It is precisely this principle which had guided nations from America trying to preserve the Union to Israel trying to preserve its nation.
He uses the term Palestine to mean the entire area including Israel.
Reacting to the federal troops sent to Little Rock to enforce desegregation orders:
A minority of Jewish Israelis do not recognize the United Nations 1949 partition boundaries of the land creating modern Israel. They believe that God gave all the land to the Jewish people—as described in the Bible. Therefore, to them, the West Bank is a part of Israel. No Israeli government has ever maintained that position. However some governments which depend on settler and ultra-Orthodox support do not publicly disavow the position. Palestinians, look with alarm, on this view and the constant attempts at encroachment on West Bank land that the settlers attempt. Like the extremist Palestinians who want to sabotage any two-state solution, there is a minority of Israelis who do the same. These two groups made the peace process very difficult as their adherents are not only very passionate about their views, but have political influence out of proportion to their relatively small number of voters.
Commenting on the Federal Troops preventing violence in Central High School:
