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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

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Author: John Quigley
ISBN: 9781316519240

By John Quigley

Cambridge University Press December 2021

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ISBN-13: 9781316519240
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: December 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for 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

7. Dilemma for a don

8. Swords are crossed

9. Close calls in the assembly hall

10. A venue unvisited

Part IV. From the Ashes of War:

11. Did the league of nations covenant violate rights?

12. Were the wishes of the Palestine population considered?

13. Did the national home provision violate the League Covenant?

14. Was Jewish statehood endorsed by the league of nations?

15. Did the Palestine mandate carry the force of law?

16. Was Palestine a state?

Part V. Whose State?:

17. Did the Palestine mandate survive the league of nations?

18. Did the United Nations inherit a power to partition Palestine?

19. Did the United Nations have a power to partition Palestine?

20. Was the future government resolution binding?

21. Was partition of Palestine fair?

Part VI. Jewish Statehood on the ground:

22. Was the declaration of a Jewish state valid?

23. Was Israel the victim of Arab aggression?

24. Was Israel liable for the flight of the Palestine Arabs?

25. Was Israel liable for not repatriating the Palestine Arabs?

26. Did Israel's territorial advances erode reliance on the future government resolution?

27. Was Israel a peace-loving state?

Part VII. Legitimacy in the New Century:

28. Israel in the United Nations

29. Israel as a nation state of the Jewish people

30. Israel and anti-Semitism

31. Israel in court?

Select Bibliography

Notes

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