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Jewish News 21 November 2019
World News / West Bank ruling / Branko mourned / Library online
Israel settlements ‘no longer illegal’ Donald Trump’s US administration has declared that the White House no longer sees Jewish settlements in the West Bank as “illegal” under international law. The announcement was made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday, but within an hour of Pompeo’s statement the European Union said its position remained unchanged. “After carefully studying all sides of the legal debate, the United States has concluded that the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law,” said Pompeo. “Calling the establishment of civilian settlements inconsistent with international law hasn’t worked. It hasn’t advanced the cause of peace.” He added: “The hard truth is that there will never be a judicial resolution to the conflict, and arguments about who is right and who is wrong as a matter of international law will not bring peace.” The policy U-turn repudiates one of Barack Obama’s last presidential acts in not vetoing United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which called the settlements a “flagrant violation” of international law with “no legal validity”. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netan-
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yahu welcomed Pompeo’s statement, saying it “rights a historical wrong”. But the UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said he “stands by” Resolution 2334, that “settlements in the West Bank are a flagrant violation of international law. They are an obstacle to peace.” While some British Jewish groups reacted with disappointment, saying the change of policy would not change the reality on the ground, others “welcomed” the change. Paul Charney, chair of the Zionist Federation, said: “We view [Pompeo’s statement] as fair, true and just. “Genuine attempts to define any justified Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria have all been ignored by the international community for far too long.”
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Schindler’s List producer dies Schindler’s List producer Branko Lustig has died, aged 87. His death last Thursday at home in Croatia was announced by the Festival of Tolerance, a Jewish film festival held in Zagreb for the last 13 years, of which he was president. Born to a Jewish family, Lustig was imprisoned in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Many family members were
killed by the Nazis, including his father and grandmother. He began in the Yugoslavian film industry in the 1950s and worked as a production supervisor on the 1982 Hollywood film Sophie’s Choice. After moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s, he met Steven Spielberg, director of Schindler’s List, which won the Oscar for best picture in 1994. “My number was 83317,”
Lustig said in a speech at the award ceremony. “I’m a Holocaust survivor. It’s a long way from Auschwitz to this stage.” Lustig went on to recall the people he saw die who urged him to be a witness to their murder. “By helping Steven to make this movie, I hope I fulfil my obligation to the innocent victims of the Holocaust.” Lustig went on to win another best picture Oscar for producing Ridley Scott’s 2000 film Gladiator.
GOOGLE TURNS BOOKS DIGITAL
Some 120,000 books from the collection of the National Library of Israel will go online in a collaboration between the library and Google. The “complex” process is under way and is expected to take about two years, the library said. The books must be shipped in containers meeting strict climate-control and security requirements from the library in Jerusalem to Google’s digitisation centre in Germany. About 45 percent are in Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino. Yaron Deutscher, head of digital access for the library, said the Google Books collaboration was “a significant contribution to our work opening digital access to all books published in the first 450 years of Hebrew printing”.
MESSI ABOUT IN ISRAEL Argentina’s star player Lionel Messi avoids a tackle during his team’s 2-2 draw with Uruguay in a match in Tel Aviv this week.