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Ariel Gold is known for the support she gives to extreme leftist organizations like Youth Against Settlements and Code Pink.
Every single human being has their own right to adhere to their own opinions and ideology regardless of reality.
Ariel Gold like Alex Jones may very well believe there are chemicals in the water making frogs gay.
Prof Eugene Rostow (Photo by Rob Croes / Anefo – Dutch National Archives, The Hague)
Yale University’s renowned law professor Eugene Rostow once applied his skill to the vexing issue of Israel’s right to build West Bank settlements in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967. In light of the split decision 2-1 by the International Criminal Court in The Hague that could enable the legal prosecution of Israeli officials, including IDF officers, it is worthwhile to consider again how Rostow viewed the question. Due to the legal complexity, IsraCast has deemed fit to print Rostow’s verbatim analysis for those who are seriously interested in understanding the various aspects and why Rostow would probably have given an ‘F’ to two of those judges in The Hague.
Hugh Lovatt, a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), wrote a study titled “
The End of Oslo: A New European Strategy on Israel-Palestine.” A British Arabist, Lovett has deliberately ignored in his study Palestinian-Arab terror; not a word of it is mentioned in his lengthy December, 2020 report. Nor, for that matter, does he mention Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip that left Palestinians some valuable economic assets. Israel was repaid by its gesture of “de-occupation” with Palestinian (Hamas) terror, and rocket fire aimed at Israel’s population centers. Lovatt praised the European Union (EU) for blocking Donald Trump’s peace plan, and for allegedly frustrating Israel’s de Jure “annexation of Palestinian territory.” The late Eugene Rostow, who served as the Dean of Yale Law School, and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under President Lyndon Johnson, established that Israel has as much right to the