"Peace Is Not On The Agenda"
One Year Of War In Israel - Natasha Hausdorff
For the anniversary of October 7th I sit down to discuss the latest in the year-long war between Israel and Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran with barrister and expert in international law, Natasha Hausdorff.
Natasha, fresh off a tour with Douglas Murray, takes me through the failure of the international community, the legality and history of Israel’s founding and the legality of the so-called settlements in the West Bank.
We also explore geopolitics, the Biden-Harris administration and Britain's approaches to Netanyahu and Israel throughout, and what a second Trump presidency might mean for the region.
We also discuss the capture and failure of institutions in Britain - universities and the mainstream media in particularly. All this and much more in a deep dive you won’t get in the corporate media…
All this and much more…
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Natasha is brilliant. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱❤️❤️❤️🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
It's well worth the time it takes to watch. Natasha is a wealth of information.
I never knew about the international law recognizing borders at the moment independence is declared. But I looked it up. It's called "Uti possidetis juris" (Latin for "as [you] possess under law"). It's definitely relevant for areas coming out of decolonization, which are supposed to inherit the borders that were set by the administrative power -- and like Natasha, US legal expert Eugene Kontorovich made a good case for applying it to British-Mandate Israel.
I also looked up the arguments against this. Apparently the line of thinking is that the "Mandate for a Jewish Homeland" didn't mean that this homeland should actually go to the JEWS. Because in 1948 the Jews were a minority there (thanks to British efforts to keep Jews out of Mandatory Palestine). Then the Jews made the mistake of accepting the Partition Plan when they declared independence, so even though the Arabs rejected it, Israel should be held to it. Like Oslo.
Anyway, I can answer one question that was left open - how many 'settlers' are living in Judea and Samaria. Answer: around half a million -- plus another 200,000 in Jerusalem (they are also demoted to 'settlers' by the int'l definition).
Of course if you ask the Palestinians, there are 9 million 'settlers' on their land, the border of which goes "from the [Jordan] River to the [Med] Sea".