Top UN court says Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. And what has that to do with the 1952 paper?

Was that just a random selection from your bookmarks to make it look like there was a historical case?

Yes, Sebutinde dissented. One judge out of 15, who belongs to an evangelical sect that sees Israel as God-decreed owner of the area.

If the settlements are illegal, then saying that all settlers should leave is not "biased against Israel"; it's the fair result of the settlements being illegal. International law says occupations should not be permanent, and since the occupation has gone one over half a century, and produced the illegal settlements (and is trying to build more), it's being administered illegally.

Now, pragmatism may end up giving the illegal settlers something - that's politics - but wanting international legal principles to be followed is not "unserious". You say "Arab maximalist position" as if that automatically makes something bad. But that cannot be right, because that would be biased against Arabs.