US imposes sanctions on two groups for fundraising for Israeli extremists in West Bank | CNN Politics

2ºRochi Bhardwaj You get Trump with that attitude. If you think Trump is the answer to peace in the world ….please. He will not only let Putin take NATO countries but he will escalate tensions and war in the Middle East. His pandering to Putin and Netanyahu has enabled these wars. He tried to bomb Iran just before leaving office and was only stopped by Milley. These wars were planned by Trump and his dictator friends. Trump is still operating a shadow government as seen in our Congress and his meetings in Florida with Orban and the leader of Poland.

3ºI am astonished by the abject failure of the American decision-making institutions, which is represented by their inability 2 take a proactive decision 2 miss the opportunity to wage wars against the terrorist warlords Netanyahu Ben Gvir & Smotrich.
Netanyahu helped the extreme right, & brought Jewish power into the Knesset to consolidate his shrinking coalition, legitimizing them & inflating their numbers on the streets of Jerusalem under the leadership of Ben Gvir, thanks to which he now has Knesset members with immunity.
Jewish Power’s leaders are followers of an assassinated racist rabbi whose group was labeled a terrorist organization by the US, the EU, and Israel itself.
Ben-Gvir is a former member of the Kach movement & had a picture of Baruch Goldstein hanging in his living room.
The United States needs to curb the phenomenon of Nazi Ben Gvir, which destabilizes Israeli and Palestinian security. Enough of the wars caused by the criminal Ben Gvir !!!

4ºTim Martin Indonesia Thailand and Vietnam are the most Powerful Trio in the whole world, because Indonesia and it's Neighbouring countries Thailand and Vietnam was the responsible for funding the Houthis in Yemen, because Indonesia is a Muslim country and it's also the Leader of all Southeast Asian nations; and that's why also Thailand and Vietnam are also keep funding the Houthis,
I'm Indonesian and I Know all of these information.

the government of Indonesia and Thailand are also funded the weapons of mister bin laden to make the 9/11 attack sucessful, because he is our Muslim brother; and the I SIS was also trade us with their own Gasolines from the middle east that's why we have a cheap oil and Gasolines, also it's the reason why Indonesia Thailand and Vietnam economies would be more powerful than the EU in the near future, which the US and the CIA was no idea with it, because Indonesia and Thailand was Spending a Billions of Dollars to Hide these Transaction from the US CIA and Being Indonesian I'm Confident to disclose it here on the Cnn Page because only less people will gonna see it. Selamat Pagi.

5ºAndrew Land — we’re in my post did I say anything about Jewish people? Israel is a nation state. The Zionism at the core of Israel is a political movement.

Did you know there are Jewish people that are against Israel and Zionism. That Rabbis warned Jewish people not to get involved with Zionism because stealing land from others is morally wrong and makes everyone hate you. That the result would be the horror of endless war.

If you are a US citizen do you want to pay for Israel so they can steal land from others? Do you want our country to go into more national debt and Americans die so Israel can do genocide and steal more land?

6ºDavid Glenn
Israelis not Jews hate and kill others.
You should obey the international law and leave what you have stolen to rescue your failed coward IDF.

They are barbaric and terrorists and don't respect law.
All settlers and settelments in West Bank are illegal according to the international law. Period!
They are Occupiers and thieves according to the international law. Period!
The world should realise that 7/10 was legal palastinian resistance against those irrefutable Israeli occupation and illegal settlers that kill civilians and children and steal their house
Today the Israeli minister has declared the establishment of new illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank
“The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.”;

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-205221/

7ºInternational Terrorism Guide – HAMAS
https://www.dni.gov/nctc/groups/hamas.html

Hamas attacks Israel killing over 1200 innocent people (not just Israelis), then takes over 200 hostages (some Americans) for what? To bargain for a cease fire for a war they started? Then keeping the hostage while the war rages on allowing the deaths of thousands of innocent people including Palestinians. That doesn't make sense. There is more to this war!

The MSM and the civilized world should demand that Hamas free all the hostages!

Hamas knew the consequences in their goal of a holy war and elimination of the state of Israel. They couldn’t care less about the Gazans. You would think the world would realize this and help Israel eliminate Hamas and all other terrorist organizations.

Dealing with terrorists over and over, now in America led by the progressive democrats.

One Jew killed in America by Hamas protestors.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”

Too many support and feel it is justified for rocket attacks on the Israeli civilian population that include babies, children, women and unarmed men?

Who governs Gaza?

The US Government has designated HAMAS a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

“HAMAS formed in late 1987 at the beginning of the first Palestinian intifada (uprising). Its roots are in the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it is supported by a robust sociopolitical structure inside the Palestinian territories. The group’s charter calls for establishing an Islamic Palestinian state in place of Israel and rejects all agreements made between the PLO and Israel. HAMAS’ strength is concentrated in the Gaza Strip and areas of the West Bank.”

8ºDoes Israel occupy the ""West Bank""?
You hear this frequently, but have you ever asked yourself if its true or even what it means? Let’s look at it objectively. In other words, in a way that territorial questions are resolved everywhere else in the world. To do this we have to look at the law.
But first, let's start with the history.
Up until about 100 years ago, the areas now called Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and all the countries around them were part of the Ottoman Empire, which ruled over a vast area and many peoples. Neither the Jews, nor the Arabs (who never took on the label of “Palestinians” until the 1960’s), had a state, though the Jews had a nationalist movement calling for one.
Everything changed after WWI. The Ottomans fought on the losing side with Germany. By the end of the War in 1918, the Ottoman Empire had disintegrated, leaving the British and French in control of much of its territory. In earlier times the victors would likely have kept this land as colonies for themselves, but there was a new spirit of democracy in the air at the time. The allies, including the British, French and the Americans agreed that the former Ottoman lands should be allowed to become independent nation states. After the war, the nations of the world created the League of Nations, a precursor to the United Nations. Meeting in San Remo Italy in 1920, they set up what was known as the Mandate system. The colonies of the defeated powers, Germany and the Ottoman Empire, were converted into distant geo-political entities, which became the countries now known as Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. None of this is controversial.
There was one other mandate - The Mandate for Palestine. Throughout history, the name “Palestine” was merely a geographic label, the name the Romans gave the Jewish kingdom of Judea after they conquered it 2000 years ago. There has never been anything Arab about it. Throughout history many foreign empires have conquered and colonized the land, the Arabs being just one. The mandate provided that the region of Palestine become a national home of the Jewish people. There was a simple reason for this. The League of Nations recognized that Jews, with their roots going back continuously for 3,700 years, had the obviously strongest indigenous connection to the land based on their language, land, culture, blood and spirituality, the components of indigeneity.
Other internationally binding agreements, such as the Treaty of Sevre, signed by the Ottomans, and the Anglo American Treaty, gave the land over to the Jews to establish their national home.
All the mandatory territories of the middle east transitioned to statehood in the 1930's and 1940's. with Israel the last to do so, declaring its independence in May 1948.
Now, the legal part.
What were the borders of the State of Israel when it declared independence? International law has a simple and universally applicable rule for determining borders for new countries. Its called the “uti possidetis juris” principle. The rule provides that when a new country is created, its borders match the borders of the previous geo-political entity in that territory. For example, the borders of Ukraine, Latvia and Azerbaijan are exactly what they were when they were parts of the Soviet Union. Other considerations, such as demographics, are not taken into account, because without a simple easily applied rule a new country's borders would never be settled, a recipe for permanent conflict. Applying this rule to Israel means that it had sovereign claims to all of Jerusalem, Judea Samaria (West Bank) and Gaza, because those were its specified borders according to the Mandate of Palestine. To be sure, the United Nations proposed a solution in 1947 with different borders and a much smaller area for a Jewish state, but that resolution, 181, was a non-binding recommendation and nothing more. It did not have the force of law.
We know what happened next. Upon declaring independence, Israel was immediately invaded by 5 Arab armies seeking to destroy it. Had the Arabs also agreed to 181, there would certainly be an independent Arab state on the land today. However, choices have consequences, especially this choice by the Arabs to annihilate the Jews, which, if successful, would have brought about the second Jewish Holocaust within a decade.
Fortunately Israel survived the war, but neighboring Jordan managed to seize parts of Jerusalem along with Judea Samaria, which it dubbed the West Bank. All the Jews living in these areas were forcibly expelled, or to use the contemporary term, ethnically cleansed.
Here we need to introduce another internationally recognized principle. A war of aggression cannot be used to change another country's borders. The so-called """"Green Line"""" you may have heard of, was never an established border between states. Israel and Jordan had merely signed an armistice agreement in 1949 - an agreement to temporarily stop fighting. This truce had no legal effect on borders. When Israel liberated the territories, which had been illegally occupied and annexed by Jordan in 1967 during the 6-day war, it was re-taking its own land. You can't occupy land that belongs to you.
So where are we now? In 1994 the Palestinian Authority was established as part of the Oslo Accords. Israel didn't have to agree to this, but it did so as a stepping stone to a future Palestinian state existing in peace alongside Israel. While not being an independent state the PA operates independently of Israel and governs the lives of Palestinians living in the West Bank to varying degrees based on defined geographic locations.
Israel has offered the Palestinians their own state on several occasions. Each time the Palestinians have (unbelievably) rejected the offer, something no other national independence movement in modern times has done. Whether or not it makes sense for Israel to renew such offers is an open question, but its under no legal obligation to do so.
By Prof. Eugene Kontorovich

9ºTrump says he is proud he had Roe vs. Wade overturned by his Supreme Court, and that he was totally against abortion, then he says let each state decide...WHAT A HIPROCTIE TRUMP SPEAKS WITH FORK TONGUE, TRUMP THE SNAKE! Everything was fine until Trump's worthless Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade by his word; March 2016: 'Some form of punishment' for women who seek abortions
While he was still a GOP candidate for president, Trump said those who seek abortions should be subject to "some form of punishment." Asked in an MSNBC town hall whether there should be punishment, Trump said: “The answer is that there has to be some form of punishment