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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
Under binding international law, ambassadors and other persons receiving diplomatic immunity in a foreign country are required “to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving state” and “not to interfere in the internal affairs of that State.” (Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Affairs, Article 41.) Unfortunately, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, has ramped up his inappropriate, persistent and “aggressive” (his own word) violations of these non-interference and legal respect requirements. This is endangering Israeli security and runs roughshod over Israeli sovereignty.
Nides’ interference – including Nides’ recent calls for and efforts to achieve a Palestinian Arab terror state on Israel’s lawful land, and Nides’ pressures to surrender sovereign control to the PA – also violate the binding international law and U.S. treaty law that designates all of Israel, including Jerusalem and Judea/Samaria, for the Jewish homeland. The 1922 Mandate provided that no territory designated for the Jewish homeland “shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of, the Government of any foreign Power.” The UN Charter (a U.S. treaty) continued the Jewish people’s rights under the Mandate after the Mandate’s expiration, and nothing has ever abrogated this. Thus, the U.S. cannot lawfully engage in actions to cede Israel’s land to a Palestinian Arab state. (See ZOA Resource: “Israel has the Legal Right to the Land Of Israel, Including Jerusalem, Judea/Samaria & The Golan, Under Binding International Law.”)
Nides’ latest violations and interference, expressed during his briefing to reporters in Jerusalem on September 7, 2022; and during his speech at the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism of The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel on September 11, 2022; and in a series of recent tweets.
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