The legal basis for applying Israeli law to Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley

En bra sammanfattning av varför Israel har rätt till Judéen och Samarien.

The legal basis for applying Israeli law to Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley

Introduction

Israel has announced that it will apply Israeli civilian law to areas of Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley, (the area renamed “the West Bank” by Jordan after 1948), on or after July 1, 2020. Whereas this is seen by some as a hurried political decision, the more fundamental question is, does Israel have the right to do this under international law?   

The answer to this question is a clear – Yes.

1. The League of Nations allocated all of Israel, including these areas, for the purpose of establishing the Jewish National Home in 1922. No other internationally recognized instrument has superseded that decision;
2. The Arab countries and most of the Arabs resident in British Mandate controlled Palestine, rejected the 1947 UN partition plan, so it has no relevance today under international law.
3. No other country has a legal claim to that territory;
4. No state border has ever separated Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley from the rest of Israel;
5. The application of Israeli law to Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley should not be referred to as “Annexation”, since annexation is the acquisition of territory by one State “at the expense of another State”.

Accordingly, Israel has the right under international law to Israel apply its civilian law to these areas.

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