A group of Republicans senators led by Arkansas’ Tom Cotton are urging the Trump administration to label West Bank goods as “Made in Israel.” Previous administrations have treated the West Bank as an occupied territory since the 1967 war.
A letter sent to Trump by the lawmakers was obtained by Axios. “This decision would support Israel and push back against anti-Semitism and the BDS movement,” it states.
This week Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to tour a winery in Jabal al-Tawil, making him the first Secretary of State to ever visit an illegal settlement. The Trump administration previously recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and opened a U.S. embassy there in 2018. Last year, it declared that West Bank settlements do not violate international law. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrated that decision, saying that Trump had embraced a “historical truth — that the Jewish people are not foreign colonialists in Judea and Samaria.”
One of the signatories of Cotton’s letter is Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, who will face Rev. Raphael Warnock in a runoff election next year. The Loeffler campaign has smeared Warnock for being “anti-Israel”, over the fact he once signed a letter comparing West Bank conditions to those of apartheid South Africa and gave a sermon condemning the murder of nonviolent Palestinian protestors.
In addition to Cotton and Loeffler, the letter was also signed by Senators Marco Rubio (FL) and Ted Cruz (TX).
So how ambitious is Cotton, and how much is AIPAC and other pro zionist groups willing to support him?
Here is a hint:
“Cotton received extensive financial support from pro-Israel groups due to his opposition to the Iran nuclear deal and for his hawkish stance toward Iran. Several pro-Israel Republican billionaires who contributed millions of dollars to William Kristol‘s Emergency Committee for Israel spent $960,000 to support Cotton.[165]“
How the Zionists snookered the Christian Zionists –
<i>”Christian Zionism: The Tragedy & The Turning”</i>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv-CdTC-StQ
For the record:
Article 6 of the UN Charter:
A Member of the United Nations which has persistently violated the Principles contained in the present Charter may be expelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.
https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=24716&LangID=E
“Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirming, inter alia, the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by force…”
“Annexation is a flagrant violation of international law, says UN human rights expert”
GENEVA (20 June 2019) – Recent statements by senior Israeli political leaders and US diplomats in support of the annexation of parts or all of the occupied West Bank by Israel fly in the face of the absolute prohibition against the annexation of occupied territories, a UN human rights expert said today.
“International law is very clear: annexation and territorial conquest are forbidden by the Charter of the United Nations,” said Michael Lynk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967. “The Security Council, beginning with Resolution 242 in November 1967, has expressly affirmed the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war or force on eight occasions, most recently in 2016.”