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June 18, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=1&DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=442&PID=0&IID=2995&TTL=U.S._Policy_on_Israeli_Settlements

U.S. Policy on Israeli Settlements

[ICA-Jerusalem Center] Dore Gold - Eugene Rostow, a former dean of Yale Law School who was Undersecretary of State in the Johnson years, wrote: "Israel has an unassailable legal right to establish settlements in the West Bank." On July 29, 1977, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance stated that "it is an open question as to who has legal right to the West Bank." The U.S. ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Morris Abram, who had been on the U.S. staff during the Nuremberg trials and was hence familiar with the "legislative intent" behind the Fourth Geneva Convention, stated on February 1, 1990, that it referred to forcible deportations that were practiced by the Nazis and not to Israeli settlement activity.

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