Lieberman: Fight against settlement freeze is 'legitimate'

Your supercilious question, "which international law?" hardly deserves an answer. But at the risk of you reading this for the 1,000th time, you should try again. Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem in 1967. Because it has refused to withdraw from occupied land, it is in violation of international law. Israel is in violation of UN Security Council resolutions, 242 (1967),452 (1979) and 465 (1980), which make all Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the annexation of Jerusalem illegal. UN resolutions 476 & 478 declare that the Knesset?s 1980 declaration that Jerusalem united is the Capitol of Israel to be null and void and a violation of Article 49 of 4th Convention. Israeli settlements in West Bank are also in violation of Article 49, and Articles 53 and 147 of the 4th Geneva Convention and of the 1st Protocol article 85 of the Convention. These violations can be prosecutable in the International Criminal Court in the Hague as a war crime. Take notes.

As if their claim was noble and right when it is all so morally and legally wrong depriving another people of their land and livelihood. The 14 justices at the Hague in 2004 would have none of it and they advised the Palestinian leadership not to accept any of it either. In fact, the justices said it must all be "void" and that's not my term but theirs.... Dutch

The only statement Lieberman made, is that in a democratic state people have the right to disagree with government decisions and demonstrate against those decisions so long as they remain within the bounds of law. It does not say anyting about the opinion of any politician.

unless you can name it it does not exist except in your imagination ! the settlements are legal !

The big crimial him self !

If libby is so law conscious.....why not respect international law that declares all settlements iilegal...well I guess international does not apply to Israelis but Israeli law applies to everyone else but settlers...

Many viewpoints have been voiced by several parties about the so-called settlement freeze. Starting from within the Israeli government: Bibi announced a temporary freeze and explained that construction will start again after this period, Barak emphasized forceful implementation of this decision, Mr. Lieberman says the fight against the freeze. It sounds like those people are fighting themselves and they have no consensus over governmental policies, or it might be that this government consists of sub-governments where each "is singing his own song" The other side of this is the the other voices that came up as a reaction of such an announcement, US and EU praised Bibi for settlement freeze which will help relaunch peace negotiations. I would tell them how can you such things while the Israeli government is divided, settlers are building more houses and violating their governments' decisions. The With chaotic sub-governments the west must intervene and really FREEZE settlements

obey the electoral mandate to rule bibi and the gang are the ones to resign colin especially as they are out of legal order in asking fffor afreeze !

Not to the party, not to the government.

completely forgetting that he's first and foremost a minister and thus supposed to be loyal to the governmentpolicy

If he doesn't, it's generally accepted that ministers that disagree with their government's policy should resign. Of course, that assumes that an authentic freeze is actually government policy.