"With friends like this, who needs enemies?"

Mr. Schori claims are groundless:

It is not Israel that has been "inflicting collective punishments on another people without a state," but rather the Arab leadership and the Arab countries who have created this situation in the first place by declaring a war and losing it, yet closing their own borders to the refugees they had created.

Second, "disproportionate military violence?" Should Israel shower 10,000 rockets on Gaza in order to make the relentless attacks on it population "proportionate?"

"…in territories it occupies against international law." As a professional diplomat, Mr. Schori knows very well that the territories are not occupied against international law and that according to international law they are subject to negotiation and that Israel is allowed to keep control over them until a settlement for peace is reached. (Please see below.)

http://www.think-israel.org/hertz.unresolutions181and242.html

>>>…Given that the Palestinian Arabs never had sovereignty over the West Bank and East Jerusalem and Jordan had seized them illegally in 1948, Professor, Judge Stephen M. Schwebel, former President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, concluded:

"State [Israel] acting in lawful exercise of its right of self-defense may seize and occupy foreign territory as long as such seizure and occupation are necessary to its self-defense. ... Where the prior holder [Jordan] of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense [Israel] has, against that prior holder, better title.

"As between Israel, reacting defensively in 1948 and 1967, on the one hand, and her Arab neighbors, acting aggressively, in 1948 and 1967, on the other, Israel has the better title in the territory of what was Palestine, including the whole of Jerusalem, than do Jordan and Egypt."
(http://www.2nd-thoughts.org/id248.html. See also id162 and id91)

Professor Julius Stone, a leading authority on the Law of Nations, has concurred, further clarifying:

"Territorial Rights Under International Law. ... By their [Arab countries] armed attacks against the State of Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973, and by various acts of belligerency throughout this period, these Arab states flouted their basic obligations as United Nations members to refrain from threat or use of force against Israel's territorial integrity and political independence. These acts were in flagrant violation inter alia of Article 2(4) and paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of the same article."

If the West Bank and Gaza were indeed occupied territory — belonging to someone else and unjustly seized by force — there could be no grounds for negotiating new borders.

In short, Mr. Schori is hiding behind his parents' legacy to spew his hate and false accusations against Israel. He’s hiding behind his parents’ legacy. They must be turning in their graves at their son’s hypocrisy.