Professor for a Strong Israel suggests that the response of the government of Israel should have been that both are legal for the same reasons: According to international law Jews only were given political rights in at least the whole of Western Palestine. Jewish national rights explicitly include the duty to settle the land with a dense Jewish population and to encourage Jewish immigration into the land, and it is forbidden to transfer the land out of Jewish control. A trivial byproduct of these national rights is the right to build roads everywhere in the regions of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. It follows that the right to build life-saving devices such as a fence is even more justified.
Professor for a Strong Israel asks: Is the government of Israel prepared to forego the justification of the fence - that, according to the government, saves lives - in international law merely in order not to give legitimacy to the settlements, in view of its intention to evacuate settlements and transfer the land out of Jewish control?
Dr. Ron Breiman, Chairman of PSI
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