Just recently, Wolf Blitzer, former Al HaMishmar correspondent, pressed Rick Perry in a CNN interview, asking him: "Since ’67, every U.S. president, Democrat and Republican, has called Israeli settlement activity in the occupied territories, in the West Bank, illegal under international law."
Yisrael Medad, Settlements – a US election issue
Wolf Blitzer is mistaken.
Yisrael Medad, a resident of Shiloh and spokesman on the Yesha Council has an op-ed in today's Israel HaYom, on the history of the changing US position on Israeli settlements
On the issue of the official US position on Yehuda and Shomron, Medad notes that:
The roots to this dispute lie with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who claims that, on U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, “Prime Minister [Menachem] Begin ultimately acknowledged its applicability in all its parts,” as Carter wrote, for example, in the Washington Post on Nov. 22, 2000, where he linked this to the issue of building Jewish communities "in occupied territory."
