‘The Jewish People Are Not Occupiers in Their Own Land’
July 20, 2024
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a blistering response to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday after it issued an advisory opinion declaring Israel’s presence and policies in the “occupied” territories illegal.
The territories Israel “occupies” include the West Bank and Gaza, both taken in a defensive war in 1967. Israel does not consider the territories occupied, but rather “disputed,” since there was no legitimate sovereign governing them.
Both include sites holy to the Jewish people, especially the West Bank — known in Israel as Judea and Samaria — which includes cities like Hebron, where Jews lived for millennia until a pogrom in 1929 (they have since returned).