[lbo-talk] Knesset plenum votes: `West Bank and Gaza are not occupied territories`

[Brad DeLong]

>With Sharon away, the Likud MKs play
>By Gideon Alon in Ha'aretz
>     http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=318672
>
>The Likud faction in the Knesset yesterday took advantage of Prime Minister
>Ariel Sharon's absence abroad to push a hawkish resolution through the
>Knesset plenum.
>
>In a 26-8 vote on the road map, the Knesset ruled "the areas of Yesha are
>not `occupied territory' - neither historically, according to international
>law, nor according to political agreements signed by Israel."
>
>The decision says "the Knesset decides that the right of the Jewish people
>to the Land of Israel is a national, historic, eternal right that cannot be
>questioned" and that "the Knesset strengthens the hands of the settlers in
>Yesha and calls on the government to continue developing the settlements."

Oh Jeebus!!

Brad DeLong