sovereignty

Stock photo of the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC (Orhan Cam/Shutterstock.com)
A city with no sovereign: The Jerusalem passport case
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the State Department can continue refusing to print ‘Israel’ as the place of birth for American citizens born in Jerusalem. ‘Neither Israel nor any other country is acknowledged as having sovereignty over Jerusalem,’ Justice Kennedy writes in the majority opinion. By Lolita Brayman The U.S. might be Israel’s strongest…
By +972 Magazine June 10, 2015
IAF fighter jet during an exercise. (photo: IDF Spokesperson)
Another Israeli act of military madness in Syria
On Tuesday morning the Air Force shot down a Syrian fighter jet for no good reason on earth. For the first time in 30 years, a Syrian fighter jet on Tuesday morning strayed over the border with Israel – or rather, over the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which rightfully belongs to Syria. Israeli…
By Larry Derfner September 23, 2014
Soldiers from the IDF's Egoz Reconnaissance Unit, which specializes in guerrilla warfare in southern Lebanon. (Illustrative photo: IDF Spokesperson/Flickr)
With Egypt strike, Israel violates two borders in three days
Two incidents in three days, in which Israel’s military was caught with its hand beyond its borders, raise questions of sovereignty and what it means to Israel. Sovereignty is a funny thing. Some countries claim more of it than they really have, some don’t have full control over their sovereign territory or airspace, and others…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man August 10, 2013
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Panel appointed by Netanyahu concludes: There is no occupation
The Israeli right celebration of the legal opinion that there is no occupation – written by the Supreme Court Justice that opposed the disengagement – is evidence that public debate has clearly reached a delusional moment. A panel formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded that Israel is entitled to settle the West Bank…
By Noam Sheizaf July 9, 2012
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