If you are not catching the logic here i think it is because there really is not any to be had.
where is Israel? Where isn't it Israel? that is the question.
Israel argued this week that a major human rights treaty, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, did not apply to its treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, because those areas were outside the country’s national boundaries, even as it defended its record on that score before the covenant’s monitoring body in Geneva.- J Post
In practice, of course, Israel rules the West Bank. 44% of the West Bank is off-limits for Palestinians to build on. Israel continues to build Israeli settlements/colonies in the West Bank. Israel continues to demolish homes in the West Bank....
As it is, Israel refuses to take responsibility for the human rights and basic needs of the non-Jewish people of the West Bank, while Jewish Israeli settlers are granted subsidies for homes, and grants multiple amounts of water resources to Jewish Israeli settlers as compared to their non-Jewish neighbors. We call this kind of legal arrangement of discrimination apartheid.
Take the land, get rid of the people. that's the tradition, but that is, as President Obama might say, "unsustainable".
The borders of Israel are where the Jews live, not where there is a line on a map- Golda Meir, 1971
So there you have it, and that is not just a quote from ol' Golda, that's the current practice. Israel exercises its sovereignty in the West Bank, and makes the claim that where Jews are living, there is Israel.
It also builds exclusive roads for Israelis, and bans the other inhabitants of the land from their use, forcing them to take long detours and use roads that are inferior.
Some other recent examples of Israel ruling the West Bank and Gaza... outside borders or no.
Israel brings Down Palestinian Tents, though "Outside Israel's national boundary"
(Palestinians are not even allowed tents??)
More water wells destroyed "outside Israel's National Boundary"
Israeli border police demolished a rainwater cistern and removed irrigation pipes from several Palestinian fields in Al Beqa’a Valley just east of Hebron on 14 July 2010, the second day of incidents in the area this month.
When international peace activists from Christian Peacemaker Teams arrived in the area at 9:30 a.m., the large bagger that had been used to break up the concrete of the cistern was leaving the site. The driver of a large tractor lifted scoops full of rocks and dumped them into the demolished cistern. Also, workers cut and disposed of irrigation pipes laid in two fields. The fields each measured 10 dunums (approximately 2.5 acres). One was a field of grape vines and the other field had tomatoes planted under grape vines. In addition to dismantling the irrigation pipes, the workers also cut the twines that were holding up tomato plants. At least seven families will be affected by this destruction, in total about 50 people.
And Amira Hass, a courageous Israeli journalist, shares this bit of information about the destruction of a Palestinian village (this did not make the news here in the USA... but imagine if Palestinians had destroyed so much as an Israeli chicken coop... it be front page news in the NY Times and we'd hear scathing attacks from Obama on down on acts of "Palestinian terrorism"... but a Palestinian village? nothin'. :
IDF destroys West Bank village after declaring it military zone
The IDF's Civil Administration destroyed a Palestinian village Monday morning that had earlier been cleared out when its water supply was cut off.
The IDF demolished about 55 structures in the West Bank village of Farasiya, including tents, tin shacks, plastic and straw huts, clay ovens, sheep pens and bathrooms. These structures served the 120 farmers, hired workers and their families who lived in the Jordan Valley village.
The Civil Administration said they had declared the area a live fire zone and posted eviction orders for 10 families in tents on June 27. ....
A farmer who owns 300 sheep was told to leave in 24 hours or his herd would be confiscated.
The sheep, and the shepherd, were residing outside Israel's national boundaries. Israel denies any responsibility for the welfare and rights of the shepherd.