Israel\'s Ofra Settlement on Unauthorized Palestin
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Israel's Ofra Settlement on Unauthorized Palestinian Land
Special Features
By Stephen Lendman
Monday, 28 September 2009
In addition, various UN resolutions (including 446, 452 and 465) condemned Israel's settlement building by declaring they have "no legal validity" to exist. Yet they do and continue expanding in reckless disregard of the law. Even so, after its forces occupied the West Bank in 1967, Israel in principle agreed to respect binding local Jordanian law and its own subsequent military order. It didn't then and doesn't now.
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