Former Supreme Court Judge Edmund Levy: There is “no Occupation” in Shomron and Judea; International Law does not bar Jews from living in Samaria
As the new Knesset in Israel begins to unfold for the 2013 Knesset Year, the new and profound shift in Israeli politics will be a shift to Israeli Nationalism, and Jewish Orthodox Centrism. The day will come when the central focus of politics in the State of Israel will become that Jerusalem is the “Light of the World, a City set on a Hill” and that the spiritual focus of Israel will be Peace and Justice by Torah Law given by G-d from Mount Sinai.
The preservation of the “Land of Israel”, the preparation for a new “Gan Eden”, a political and religious center in Jerusalem that will honor the G-d of Israel, and the preparation for the building of the New Bayit HaShem (House of G-d) or the Beit HaMikdash (Holy House or Holy Temple) will focus the spiritual ascendance of Jerusalem around the world.
With HaShem, the G-d of Israel coming closer and closer to His people, it is understandable that the focus of Israeli Jewish control of the “Land of Israel” would have become earlier. What has now being appreciated is the fact that before all the new Knesset members take set in the Israel Knesset, the focus of the people of Israel first had to return to the “Land of Israel”; the “Land of Israel” including Shomron and Judea must soon come totally under the control HaShem loving citizens of Israel. This is why the following legal brief on the international legal fact will someday be seen as the most profound shift in Israeli politics; “This Land is Mine, and belongs to the G-d of Israel.”
It was in July 4, 2012 that a retired High Court Judge and his panel in which he presided issued a legal brief that came to the conclusion that the Israeli Settlements are not “Occupation” and International Law allows Jews the privilege to live in Judea and Samaria. The legal panel included; former Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, Circuit Judge Techia Shapira and jurist Dr. Allan Baker.
In one swift move, the revolutionary legal document shifted the view of the international community away from the international media attention that Israel is an “apartheid” state because of the “occupation” of the Palestinian people living in Shomron and Judea, a region known as the “West Bank” to the rest of the world.
The legal panel noted that the Nation of Jordan took sovereignty control over most of the region of Judea and Samaria after the 1948 Declaration of Independence and the subsequent 1948 War of Independence, a move that also was not recognized by the international community. Therefore the State of Israel did not “occupy” this same land when they went to war in defense against five Arab states intent on the annihilation of the Jewish people
The committee analyzed the historic and legal background of Judea and Samaria. They concluded that the “belligerent occupation approach” by the State of Israel must be abandoned and reflect Israel’s legal status in those areas. It also noted that Jordan’s assumed sovereignty over most of Judea and Samaria after the 1948 War for Independence was not legally recognized by the international community. The legal sovereignty of Samaria and Judea was recognized only by Great Britain. Therefore the State of Israel did not “occupy” the same land during the Six-Day War in 1967 when Israel launched a surprise raid bombing raid against Egyptian air-fields, the Jordanian-controlled West Bank, and aerial clashes over Syrian territory in the Golan Heights.
Within 6-days, Israel has won a decisive land war, when they took control of the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank and Eastern Jerusalem from Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria.
Since that day, the international community including the United States has labeled the State of Israel as an “occupier” under the assumption that Israel took control of Jordanian land in the war, when in fact the land was administered by Great Britain in the Mandate of the League of Nations after World War I that was to be divided between Israel and a new country called Trans-Jordan after the Israeli State of Israel declared her independent as a sovereign nation.
The Arab nations, in 1948, including the Nation of Jordan refused to accept the partition plan. They went to war and unsuccessfully tried to destroy and annihilate the fledgling young State of Israel. During this time the Nation of Jordan “occupied” most of Judea and Samaria after the war which had not been either accepted by the League of Nation nor the Arab States who lost the war.
The conclusion of the Levy Committee were turned over to the Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, which according to the Hebrew-language Yisrael HaYom newspaper reported stating that he was not obligated to accept the conclusions of the Levy Report.
The facts of the Levy Report stated in a legal and factual way, that international law did not and does not apply to the regions of Judea and Samaria (Shomron). It was the reports legal opinion that the State of Israel should not destroy Jewish homes and expel the families from communities that were built in the past with the approval of the State of Israel government.
The Levy Report also stated that financial limitation precluded their examination of other communities and outposts that were usually built adjacent to neighboring communities but did not have territorial links to the home community. Yet, according to the panel appointed by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu that it was their legal opinion that no outposts or neighborhood were built without the knowledge of the cabinet ministers; a knowledge of which it was their legal mandate to know.
The Levy Report committee also took the government of Israel to task for not making its policies clear in order to prevent multiple of opinions and interpretation before it approved of new Israeli communities. They concluded in their writing within the report that a new and old judicial framework regarding the implementation of Israel’s status in Judea and Samaria should be adopted.
The Levy Report also made the recommendation that it should be an Israeli law that all Arabs and Jews must register any land claims within four or five years or they would lose their rights of ownership.
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The Rise of the End Times State of Israel is unfolding before our eyes. This is an anathema to most of the nations of the world, who believe in the ascendancy of man rather than the ascendancy of the future Messianic Kingdom of G-d on earth. Yet, the G-d of Israel continues to provide a pathway for the future redemption of the regions of Shomron and Judea that are destined to become the new Homeland for the Returning Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel.
We have to recognize that the G-d of Israel is working with imperfect people in order to restore this planet to a messianic era in which our lives can be focused on holiness, righteousness and justice. If you believe in the Sovereignty of G-d and that His will be completed before the revealing of the messianic age of our future, then you might desire to reconnect with the Biblical portrayals of what is and will be happening in your near future, Contact “Kol Ha Tor Vision”,the Voice of the Turtledove.
Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail Establishing the Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness as part of the Land of Israel, and preparing the “Land”for the Return of the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel and then the Redemption of All Israel.
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