Under international law, Israel’s rule in the West Bank and Gaza is
considered “belligerent occupation” and, therefore, its actions must be
justified by military necessity only. If there is no occupation, Israel has
no military grounds to hold on to the territories. In that case, it must
either return the land to the Palestinians, and move out the settlers, or
defy international law by annexing the territories, as it did earlier with
East Jerusalem, and establish a state of Greater Israel. 
 
Annexation, however, poses its own dangers. Israel must either offer the
Palestinians citizenship and wait for a non-Jewish majority to emerge in
Greater Israel; or deny them citizenship and face pariah status as an
apartheid state. 
 
Just such concerns were raised on Sunday by 40 Jewish leaders in the
United States, who called on Netanyahu to reject Levy’s “legal
maneuverings” that, they said, threatened Israel’s “future as a
Jewish and democratic state”.
 
But from Israel’s point of view, there may, in fact, be a way out of
this conundrum. 
 

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