Spineless world leaders have failed to implement international law, stopping the expansion of Israeli settlements.  Benjamin Netanyahu seizes his chance to announce another expansion of settlements; bulldozers are ready, pink-roofed homes will be up in no time.Israel’s use complex legal codes to authorise seizures under Ottoman or British Mandate law, or under the law of “absentee property”,  illegal under internation ...

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Spineless world leaders have failed to implement international law, stopping the expansion of Israeli settlements.  Benjamin Netanyahu seizes his chance to announce another expansion of settlements; bulldozers are ready, pink-roofed homes will be up in no time.

Israel’s use complex legal codes to authorise seizures under Ottoman or British Mandate law, or under the law of “absentee property”,  illegal under international law.

The lasting pain of their first 1948 dispossession is viewed as betrayal to Palestinians, a charge levelled at the British, whose 1917 Balfour declaration promised Palestine as a Jewish homeland.

Authors Bio:

David is a columnist writing on foreign affairs, economic, and political and social issues. He is an honorary Associate Editor of The Greanville Post, and a former Senior Editor of OpEdNews.com. His articles have been published by OpEdNews, The Real News Network, Truth Out, Consortium News, Global Research, The American Herald Tribune, and many other publications.

He is active in social issues relating to peace, race relations and religious freedom, homelessness and equal justice. David is a member of Veterans for Peace, Saint Pete for Peace, CodePink, and International Solidarity Movement.

In 2019 David spent 2 months in Russia on one of his frequent people-to-people peace missions. In 2017 David spent 3 weeks in South Korea researching the Korean War of 1950 to 1953. In 2016 David spent 10 weeks in Palestine with the Palestinian lead non-violent resistance group International Solidarity Movement, and returned again in 2018. In February of 2015 he was part of a people-to-people delegation to Cuba with CodePink. In November of 2015 he was a delegate with CodePink to Palestine to show solidarity with Palestinians.

David has a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of Maryland and attended classes at George Washington University for a certification as a financial planner (CFP). He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania program as a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA).

David is a Special Forces combat veteran of the illegal U.S. war of aggression against the people of Vietnam. In 1999 he returned to Vietnam for 3 weeks on a mission of reconciliation and peace.

In 2009 David retired from Morgan Stanley after 35 years as a Senior Vice President, CIMA and CFP.

David resides in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida. His hobbies include boating, RV'ing and motorcycle touring. He is also a licensed skydiver (USPA-inactive), with over 300 free-fall parachute jumps.

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