Netanyahu drafts rebuttal of ICJ decision without Israeli attorney general's input

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu filed a draft statement rejecting the ICJ's advisory opinion without consulting Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, according to Haaretz. 

Haaretz reported that the draft was written without the input of the attorney general and the attached legal opinion was written by Talia Einhorn, a professor of law at Ariel University.

“The people of Israel are not occupiers in their own land and in their eternal capital, Jerusalem," the document reads. 

The draft decision said: "Israel rejects the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, that blatantly ignored the natural and historic right of the Jewish people over the state of Israel, that was recognised in International law."

The statement further asserts that the ICJ opinion ignores the right of Israeli citizens to settle in any part of the land, citing "accepted international legal principles regarding territories that did not have a foreign sovereign" and "Israel's duty and right for self-defence and safe boundaries".