Netanyahu-appointed panel: Israel isn't an occupying force in West Bank

If Israel is not occupying the West Bank it should get out of the West Bank. As usual, the Netanyahu regime is full of twaddle.

You made the Arabs of the world hate us in the USA. We have every right to condemn your greedy ambitions.

No doubt this report will be adopted with great enthusiasm by the Ministry For Truth.

The report of the Levy Committee is correct, because the Gaza Strip and the West Bank belong to Israel since the year 1466 BCE, as it is written in the Bible, and is well known by all. The Arabs violently and unjustly invaded the Land of Israel (Palestine) in the year 635 CE. So, the Palestinian Arabs are invaders and occupiers, and must go back to their own land, which is Arabia.

So, if Israel captured the land, but it's not an occupation, are they saying that the West Bank part of Israel? If "Judea and Samaria" are part of Israel, (because Israel captured it), and the majority of the territory's population is stateless and subject to military rather than civil law, and a person's status in the territory is determine according to blood lines, there's only one thing it can be.

Land squatting and stealing is an Israeli hobby. Come on occupation never hurt anyone.

it's not occupation, it's enforced supervision. Its not oppression it's counter terrorism; it's not illegal outposts, it's natural growth border enhancement; it's not wrong, it's differently good!

Four hundred plus check points in the West Bank , IDF military bases on confiscated land and it is not an occupation ? These people are smoking some of those funky , left handed cigs . Every government on the planet execpt Israel says it is an occupation .

If Israel is not an occupying force then provide each person in the West Bank with an Isreali passport and give them the right to vote.

From the beginning, Israel was the terorist, the invaders, the occupiers, the oppressors. The Palestinians are simply defending their land as they are able. Every time an Israeli Jew calls a Palestinian a terrorist, he is making an attempt at spin. This spin has grown more and more futile as people begin to understand the truth. Israel barely tries to hide it's illegal, immoral, and reprehensible behavior anymore. It is a dare and a challenge to the international community to do something about it or forever shut up about the behavior of others.

And right is left, up is down, Mitt is a democrat, and the world will swallow Bibi's latest spin.

claiming other people property by force will not last for aver what go s around comes around no bird fly for aver he most come down prepare for that day is coming very soon

The Israeli government has many busy little minds associated with the great project of land theft. First of all, there is the PM. It is his job to issue decrees. He also oversees the work of the Minister of spin, the minister of oppression, and the minister of peace fakery. It is the job of the Knesset to continually revise the laws, making todays criminal activity on the part of the government all legal and above board tomorrow. The supreme court weighs in every once in a while against the government in order to give the process some credibility. This activity is loudly touted by Israel, but, in the dark of night, the Knesset fixes the problem and everything goes back to normal. Israel's high court is strictly for appearances sake. It is powerless and easily ignored.

If this is what Israel thinks, it has just lost a supporter of Israel.

At least Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask.

When you look at the facts, it's actually quite simple. The West Bank isn't occupied land, at least according to the legal definition of occupation. Unlike the German occupation of Poland (as someone suggested), Palestine has never been a sovereign state. Does that mean it's right? Not necessarily. But just because it's seen as immoral by some, by no means gives anyone the right to use bogus legal definitions to justify their claims

let all vote equally -

Where the international community never produced a legal construction under non-Jewish national claims on WB, Levy's expertise about Israel's sovereignty there based on a right anchored in international law is all the more interesting!

If Israel is not an occupying force, could someone explain me what it is, please?

If the West Bank is not "occupied" then it is Israeli territory, and hence either its civillians must be given Israeli citizenship or Israel is without a doubt an Apartheid state.

Hint: We don't care what you think. Just like the generatiion that raised you which nearly caused our extinction, your voice are heard and rejected !

Then, Jordan decided to shrink its political projection in 1967. This did not mean that the territory reverted to Jordan because of the erstwhile identities of the people. The Jews simply went home.

Imagine if all crimiansl made the laws and were their own judge and jury like Israel? Life would be utter chaos for everyone..wait..it already is.

Israel, only pain for our people will come of this arrogance

Israel does what it wants once again.

If it is occupied territory then the settlements are illegal. However if it is Israeli territory then in order to avoid really becoming an apartheid state (as opposed to just being accused of being one) then the Palestinians will have to be given citizenship. And if they are given citizenship, Israel will very shortly no longer be a Jewish state. Greater Israel, demoocratic, Jewish. Pick two.

Especially if it is headed by Bibi and other Israeli leaders? Why can't Bibi, if his intentions are sincere, get a panel made up of neutral citizens of the world? There is absolutely no credibility in this report. These are just foxes trying to justify guarding the hen coop.

Your paper should know that this opinion is held by some eminent professors of international law and is nothing to do with right or left. It is a purely academic point with differing views.

There is no topic more reported on or discussed in Israel. It is a wonder that anything else gets done at all.

So what is it if not occupied territory? What becomes of its inhabitants?

That Netanyahu doesn't consider the settlers an occupying force. It doesn't sound that sympathetic. But fortunately the international community disagrees. Israel does occupy the West Bank, nothing else, and it is illegal, nothing else.

Jordan was the last of the occupiers.

It's like changing your laws to allow racism, genocide, or anything like that. This also would be a big step back for peace, because any subsequent peace treaty would find this as a major hurdle. Netanyahu is trying to grab land by force, to later use it as bargaining power for a two-state solution. In the end, Palestinians will get nothing, they are not in a position to grab land. Thanks for this article Haaretz. Sounds like you are playing Devil's advocate.

Both seem to be involved in a criminal enterprise . Both need to be sanctioned. Settlers with the demolition of their housea and teh attorney general of teh time charged with conspiracy to circumvent the laws of teh day.

and "...impossible to foresee a time when Israel will relinquish these territories, if ever" then we should simply annex the West Bank and grant the Palestinians the right to vote. Why isn't it obvious that a binational state is the only logical result of the Right's obsession with settling in Judea and Samaria?

A large ton of bricks is going to descend on Israel from the USA, EU, UN and ICJ. As the West Bank wasn't awarded to Israel in 1948, and it invaded it and occupied it, it is necessarily an occupying power and therefore subject to 4th Geneva Convention, aka ALL settlements are illegal. No amount of hasbara, make believe or barrack room lawyering on the Israeli right's part will change that.

If this is the jewish character to legalize its own crimes, than the Jews don´t belong to the civilized nations. Than it is evident that Israell is a roughe state and a criminal entity-.