by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, INN
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, will deliver keynote addresses at the annual dinner of the American Friends of the Beit El Yeshiva Center and Arutz Sheva on Sunday Dec. 5 in Manhattan.
Huckabee has been outspoken in his support for Israel’s rights to sovereignty over the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria, where Beit El is located. He has visited Israel 12 times and most recently toured sites in the eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, accompanied by Dr. Joe Frager, a New York physician and chairman of the Jerusalem Reclamation Project.
Last year, Huckabee launched his unofficial campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 with a visit to the Har Bracha community in Samaria last year.
He said at the time that he understood the need for a Palestinian state, but that it should not interfere with the Jewish one. “There are many, many places where a homeland for the Palestinians could in fact take place that would be consistent with their roots,” he explained. “But there is only one place on earth where the Jewish people could have a homeland that is consistent with their roots.
Regarding the freeze on Jewish construction imposed by U.S. President Barack Obama, Huckabee said on his tour, “My question is how would the government of the United States feel if Prime Minister Netanyahu began to dictate which people could live in the Bronx, which ones could live in Manhattan, and which could live in Queens.” He compared Obama’s policy to racial segregation.
Mr. Hoenlein has traveled throughout the world meeting with state leaders and Jewish communities. He has written and lectured across the U.S. and abroad and is frequently consulted on public policy and Israel issues by high ranking American government officials.
Beit El Dinner
Chairman of the Board of American Friends of Beit El Eugen Gluck noted that with some 1,400 expected attendees, the Beit El/Arutz Sheva dinner is one of the largest and most prestigious functions of any Jewish organization. The dinner will be held on Sunday December 5 at the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Manhattan at 5pm.
The honorees this year are Rabbi Dr. Richard and Sandy Weiss of Hillcrest, NY, Dr. Joshua and Shifra Fox of Lawrence, NY, Dr. Joseph and Karen Frager of Jamaica Estates, NY, and Dr. Jeffrey and Esther Weber of Marine Park, Brooklyn.
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Israel already has sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. The Jews were given exclusive political rights over all of Palestine in 1920 by agreement of the WWI Allies at San Remo and by the League of Nations. Professor Rashid Khalidi recognizes that in his book "The Iron Cage" when he said the Arabs local to Palestine were ignored in the allocation of political rights. The League, under Article 22 of its Charter, set up a trust arrangement or Mandate for those political rights because the Jews were only 12% to 13% of the whole population of Palestine at the time and they were unable to exercise sovereignty. The Jews now have a majority of the population in Israel within the Green Line plus Judea and Samaria. The orthodox Jews have large families to make up for the one out of three Jews murdered during the Holocaust. The Arabs birth rate has gone down as their infant mortality has declined and their life expectancy has increased as a result of the Jewish medical facilities available to them. So they could annex Judea and Samaria and still maintain their state as a "Jewish State" even though they provide everyone with an opportunity to vote. The US voted to approve this arrangement in 1922 in a Joint Resolution. In the debates on the Resolution, Congressman Appleby said:
I want to make at this time, Mr. Speaker and gentlemen of the House, my attitude and views upon the Arab question in Palestine very clear and emphatic. I am in favor of carrying out one of the three following policies, to be preferred in the order in which they are named:
(1) That the Arabs shall be permitted to remain in Palestine under Jewish government and domination, and with their civil and religious rights guaranteed to them through the British mandate and under terms of the Balfour declaration.
(2) That if they will not consent to Jewish government and domination, they shall be required to sell their lands at a just valuation and retire into the Arab territory which has been assigned to them by the League of Nations in the general reconstruction of the countries of the east.
... That if they will not consent to Jewish government and domination, under conditions of right and justice, or to sell their lands at a just valuation and to retire into their own countries, they shall be driven from Palestine by force."
http://www.ismi.emory.edu/PrimarySource/jnh1922part2.pdf
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