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The Legality of a Jewish State: A Century of Debate over Rights in Palestine

The Legality of a Jewish State: A Century of Debate over Rights in Palestine

Author: John Quigley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781316519240
Published In: December 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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In The Legality of a Jewish State, the author traces the diplomatic history that led to the partition of Palestine in 1948 and the creation of Israel as a state. He argues that the fate of Palestine was not determined on the basis of principle, but by the failure of legality. In focusing on the lawyer-diplomats who pressed for and against a Jewish state at the United Nations, he offers an explanation of the effort in 1947-48 by Arab states at the UN to gain a legal opinion from the International Court of Justice about partition and the declaration of a Jewish state. Their arguments at that time may surprise a twenty-first-century reader, touching on issues that are still at the heart of the contemporary conflict in the Middle East.

Preface

United Nations entities

Abbreviations

Part I. Battalions or Barristers:

1. Why legality?

2. A land for an absent people

3. Israel on the agenda

Part II. A Pair of Godfathers:

4. Uncle Joe

5. Uncle Sam

Part III. A Flight from Justice:

6. Comments for a cause