http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/10/aboriginal_rights_of_the_jewish_people.html
HERE WE GO AGAIN…HERTZ LAYS OUT THE HISTORY AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF JEWS IN PALESTINE…BUT THEN ENDS HIS WELL CRAFTED ESSAY WITH THE USUAL CRAPOLA ABOUT THE NEED FOR A PALARAB STATE IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA….WITH THE USUAL BLAH, BLAH BLAH ABOUT SECURITY AND GUARANTEE ETC……RSK
“The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland,” said U.S. President Barack Obama in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly on September 21, 2011. This theme of “people” and “historic homeland” has for centuries resonated with most Jews round the world. However, the president’s words were even more welcome, because our own time witnesses an increasingly bitter controversy over the Jewish people’s right to political self-determination in a part of its aboriginal homeland.
That fierce debate inevitably revolves around the political and legal doctrine of the self-determination of peoples. There is also the companion doctrine of aboriginal rights, because the Jewish people is a small indigenous minority in the Arab Middle East, which in turn is an important part of the greater Muslim world that also includes key countries like Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, and Indonesia. To speak of aboriginal rights suggests that there is significant moral and legal weight to the circumstance that the Jews — periodically persecuted and perennial victims of discrimination — nonetheless for more than twenty-five centuries kept some demographic and cultural ties to their aboriginal homeland. And is there not added moral and legal weight where that particular people’s aboriginal rights have already been explicitly recognized in the relevant treaties, which are the highest source of international law?