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Related: About this forumForeign ministry course changes due to BDS success
Responding to the success of BDS, Israel updates foreign ministry cadets course.Under direction of Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely and Director-General Dore Gold, Israel has updated its foreign ministry cadets training course to better meet the serious challenges posed by global Palestinian solidarity and the BDS movement in particular.
New additions to the six-month training course include a tour of the Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood. The Israeli press reports that the tour will be led by David Be'eri, founder of the Elad Association which drives settlement in the heart of this occupied Palestinian neighbourhood located just outside Jerusalem's Old City and adjacent to the al Aqsa mosque.
A tour will also be given of the Israeli settlements situated in the northern West Bank area of Nablus. The tour will be conducted by settler leader Benny Katzover, chairperson of the Samaria Citizens' Committee and founder of the Nablus-area settlement of Elon Moreh.
Katzover has stated in the past that We didn't come here to establish a democratic state. We came here to return the Jewish people to their land."
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Foreign ministry course changes due to BDS success (Original Post)
Israeli
Nov 2015
OP
Perhaps the diplomatic corps could blow vuvuzelas instead so that the voices of their critics
Little Tich
Nov 2015
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Israeli
(4,159 posts)1. More info from another source .....
Israeli foreign ministry cadets to defend legality of West Bank settlements
'We think it does not matter what your political positions are'
Ben lynfield Jerusalem Sunday 1 November 2015
Israeli foreign ministry cadets will from now on be guided by hard-right leaders on tours of settlements in the occupied West Bank so that they can better defend their legality against international opinion, officials have indicated.
We think it does not matter what your political positions are. You must know that the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] is legal, deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely told Army Radio. When I say legal, I also mean international law. It is settlement with a historical base and has very deep roots. The move ensures that the diplomatic corps, which prides itself on its sophistication and professionalism, will remain in lockstep with the expansionist policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Among the new sessions to be added to the cadets course are a lecture on the legality of the settlements based on the claim that the West Bank is not occupied territory, according to The Times of Israel. It also includes a tour of the City of David settlement in the Palestinian Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, to be led by settler leader David Beeri, who seeks its transformation, based on biblical claims, into a Jewish area.
Israeli officials have advanced a number of arguments for the legality of settlements over the years, insisting that the Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply to the West Bank because the international community did not recognise Jordanian sovereignty before Israel captured it from Jordan in the 1967 war.
However, the international community views the settlements as illegal and after the war in 1967, the Israeli foreign ministrys legal adviser, Theodor Meron, ruled that building settlements would be a clear contravention of international law. Civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Mr Meron wrote to Levi Eshkol, the prime minister at the time. But his advice was not heeded.
Hagit Ofran, who monitors settlements for the dovish Peace Now movement, predicted that the ministrys efforts to influence international public opinion will fail. Making better public diplomacy wont work if Israel keeps building settlements and deepening the occupation instead of seeking peace and a two state solution.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-foreign-ministry-cadets-to-defend-legality-of-west-bank-settlements-a6717301.html
'We think it does not matter what your political positions are'
Ben lynfield Jerusalem Sunday 1 November 2015
Israeli foreign ministry cadets will from now on be guided by hard-right leaders on tours of settlements in the occupied West Bank so that they can better defend their legality against international opinion, officials have indicated.
We think it does not matter what your political positions are. You must know that the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] is legal, deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely told Army Radio. When I say legal, I also mean international law. It is settlement with a historical base and has very deep roots. The move ensures that the diplomatic corps, which prides itself on its sophistication and professionalism, will remain in lockstep with the expansionist policies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Among the new sessions to be added to the cadets course are a lecture on the legality of the settlements based on the claim that the West Bank is not occupied territory, according to The Times of Israel. It also includes a tour of the City of David settlement in the Palestinian Silwan neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, to be led by settler leader David Beeri, who seeks its transformation, based on biblical claims, into a Jewish area.
Israeli officials have advanced a number of arguments for the legality of settlements over the years, insisting that the Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply to the West Bank because the international community did not recognise Jordanian sovereignty before Israel captured it from Jordan in the 1967 war.
However, the international community views the settlements as illegal and after the war in 1967, the Israeli foreign ministrys legal adviser, Theodor Meron, ruled that building settlements would be a clear contravention of international law. Civilian settlement in the administered territories contravenes explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention, Mr Meron wrote to Levi Eshkol, the prime minister at the time. But his advice was not heeded.
Hagit Ofran, who monitors settlements for the dovish Peace Now movement, predicted that the ministrys efforts to influence international public opinion will fail. Making better public diplomacy wont work if Israel keeps building settlements and deepening the occupation instead of seeking peace and a two state solution.
Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israeli-foreign-ministry-cadets-to-defend-legality-of-west-bank-settlements-a6717301.html
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)2. Perhaps the diplomatic corps could blow vuvuzelas instead so that the voices of their critics
critics can't be heard.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)3. doesn't sound like an adaptation, more like a doubling down on apartheid
not going to convince anyone to the left of Dick Cheney or Stephen Harper, and they're already on board