Settlers fabricate nonexistent 'eternal rights'

Yossi Gurvitz
+972mag 23 May -- Why settlers lie and claim that an article of the UN charter grants “eternal rights” to Jews in Palestine -- A bunch of senior settlers – Gershon Messica, Boaz Ha’etzni, Benni Katzover, Ariel mayor Ron Nahman, and others – have boldly gone where no nutjob has gone before. They sent a threatening letter to the General Secretary of the UN, Ban Ki Moon (Hebrew), stiffly informing him that if he would not stop his odious custom of noting facts and referring to the West Bank as an occupied territory, they will sue him an international court, and demand damages. Whatever for? Well, the NRG article breathlessly informs that Moon’s statements contradict Article 80 of the UN Charter of 1945, known colloquially as the "Eretz Israel article," which, claim the settlers, lays down the "judicial rights of the Jewish people for Eretz Israel as eternal rights, which cannot be abrogated without the agreement of the Jewish people." This seemed rather strange. I mean, if such an article existed, I’m pretty certain I’d have heard of it by now.
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