Hillary Clinton has a lifetime of anti-Israel positions. She said she was a big supporter of Israel when she was in the U.S. Senate, when she needed campaign contributions from American Jews and New York’s Jewish voting bloc. She has not been pro-Israel since her resignation from the Senate to become Secretary of State in January 2009.

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Amid the countless words of analysis of US President Obama’s address to the United Nations last week, precious little has been said about his use of the words ”Palestinian lands.” The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is apparently the first and only organization to comment on it.
”Surely Israelis and Palestinians will be better off if Palestinians reject incitement and recognize the legitimacy of Israel … [and if] Israel recognizes that it cannot permanently occupy and settle Palestinian land,” Obama said.
The ZOA says that using the words ”Palestinian land” to refer to Judea and Samaria ”prejudges the issue of sovereignty and borders, and is not accordance with international law, which designates Judea/Samaria as unallocated territory, without a recognized sovereign.”
Over the past century, Judea and Samaria (collectively known as Yesha) has been under the control of the Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate, Jordan and Israel – but never under ”Palestinian” control. In fact, no such Arab country has ever existed in history. Only since 1993 has there been a ”Palestinian Authority,” but it was specifically not granted control or authority over areas of Jewish settlement. For Obama to say that Israel cannot  ”settle Palestinian land,” therefore, is a total misnomer.
The ZOA noted that Obama’s use of this term ”unjustly designates the biblical, religious, and historical heartland of the Jewish people for millennia, before the Arab conquest of the region in the seventh century, as belonging to Palestinian Arabs.”
The ZOA acknowledges that Judea and Samaria are disputed areas, ”but it is also important to note that Israel has better claim [to them] in law than any other party.”
As has been noted many times, to the apathy of most of the world, Judea and Samaria – the area termed the ”West Bank” – were earmarked for Jewish settlement in 1920 at the San Remo Conference. This decision was then reaffirmed by the League of Nations and the United Nations, and has never been superseded by an internationally binding agreement.
Jordan’s assumption of control over the area from 1949 until 1967 was never recognized by any country in the world, except for Great Britain. The Arab League specifically negated it. Judea/Samaria is thus ”unallocated territory under international law,” the ZOA affirms, and thus Israel’s control of it does not impede on the sovereign territory of any other entity.
Even the Oslo Accords do not prohibit Israeli residence and construction in these territories. On the contrary, states the ZOA: they ”provide for Israeli and Palestinian building in zones under their respective controls. Oslo also lists this as a final status issue, to be negotiated by the parties themselves, and Israel is entitled to assert its right for its citizens to live and build in these territories until such time as a peace settlement is reached.”
Israel has consistently called for direct negotiations with the PA, but the latter has refused for the past eight years – except for two meetings held in the space of one week over six years ago.

Former United States Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has predicted that if Hillary Clinton becomes president, she will sign the US up to the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
Speaking at Shurat HaDin’s ”Towards a New Law of War Conference” Monday, Bolton delivered a typically scathing critique of the current White House’s foreign policy.
”Iran learned that if it waits long enough the Americans will give up, remove the sanctions and do whatever they want,” Bolton said, attacking the Obama administration’s policy of appeasement towards Tehran. ”International sanctions against state sponsors of terrorism are not meaningful, since they’re always removing them.”
Turning to the ICC, Bolton called on democratic nations not to engage with the court, branding it unaccountable, illegitimate, impotent and biased.
”We must not cooperate with the ICC – that gives them legitimacy,” he said. ”The ICC is an illusion. A bunch of people in black robes will never be able to stop the brutal dictators who carry out mass murders.”

”No one elected them, there are no checks and balances. It is in practice an ad hoc tribunal to attack African leaders,” he continued, adding that his ”happiest moment” in service of the US government was the day he removed America’s signature from th Rome Statute.

”Fortunately, Obama didn’t resign until now, as he knows he won’t have a majority in the Senate in favor,” Bolton stated.
But ”if Clinton is elected, she will rejoin Americans to the ICC and resign the Rome Statute,” he warned.

Bolton also accused commentators and leaders of perverting international law for their own ends.
”Most things which are considered ‘international law’ aren’t law at all. They don’t have any democratic legitimacy,” he said. ”This harms the sovereignty of states and is fixed by people who weren’t elected by anyone.”