When questioned on her statement by The Times of Israels diplomatic correspondent Raphael Ahren, Bishop explained that: I dont think its helpful to prejudge the settlement issue if youre going to get a negotiated solution. Her position - that Australia can best support the negotiations by taking no position on such a basic issue of international law - is at variance not only with that of the overwhelming majority of the UN, which in November called for an end to all Israeli settlement activity in all of the occupied territories, but also with some of Israels closest allies....Such universal opposition to Israels settlement enterprise is not just a matter of legal technicality. The purpose of the settlements, as Ariel Sharon declared in 1973, is to make a pastrami sandwich of the Palestinians by building strips of settlements throughout the West Bank so that in 25 years time, neither the United Nations nor the United States, nobody, will be able to tear it apart
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:35:22 +0000
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