Reply #58: No. The answer is that I am building an organized argument broken up into sections.

[Shaktimaan]

And the political aspect is something that I'll talk about in detail later. Right now I am talking about the relevant laws and agreements that the territories are subject to.

But your statement is very telling. Essentially you are saying that established law doesn't matter. That politics and the individual opinions of nations with various interests in the conflict's outcome are far more important than the law. It is pretty easy to show the strong bias that many nations have against Israel as evidenced by the double standard they are judged by. Your belief implies that it is acceptable to apply international law differently depending on how popular or how much political influence the nation in question wields. One might ask then, what is the point of even having laws if they are to be arbitrarily applied?

Since you're being annoying though, the answer to your question is "America." But there are many other nations that side with Israel in various legal disputes such as the jurisdiction of the ICJ, calling into question who is authorized to make a decision on the status of the territories.

It is not surprising that at the United Nations, the U.S. has opposed the phraseology of "occupied Palestinian territories." In March 1994, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright stated: "We simply do not support the description of the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 War as occupied Palestinian territory."

http://www.jcpa.org/art/brief1-1.htm

An obvious question would also be, "If the territories are indeed occupied by Israel, who are they occupied from?" Jordan and Egypt? A non-existent Palestinian state whose leaders long ago abandoned any claim to the land in question? The Ottoman Empire? England? And what do you base your answer on? Law? Public opinion? Statements released by the Arab League?

Since we are talking about LAW right now, you might want to try sticking to that. Unless you are having trouble finding legal evidence to support your claim, in which case feel free to continue trying to desperately change the subject with simplistic one-liners.