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The Palestine Question in International Law, Compiled and edited by Victor Kattan (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2008) 1045 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2012

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Israel Law Review , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , 2009 , pp. 628 - 638
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References

1 Dugard, John, Foreword to The Palestine Question in International Law (Kattan, Victor compiled & ed., 2008)Google Scholar [hereinafter The Palestine Question].

2 Id.

3 Id. at xxiii.

4 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine Preamble (July 24, 1922), available at http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace%20Process/Guide%20to%20the%20Peace%20Process/The%20Mandate%20for%20Palestine.

5 Francis A. Boyle, The Creation of the State of Palestine, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 669, 670–71.

6 James Crawford, The Creation of the State of Palestine; Too Much Too Soon?, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 675, 680.

7 Rostow, Eugene V., The Perils of Positivism: A Response to Professor Quigley, 2 Duke J. Comp.& Int. L. 229, 239–40 (1992)Google Scholar.

8 Israel-Palestine Liberation Organization, Declaration of Principles on Interim Self- Government Arrangements, reprinted in 32 I.L.M. 1525 (1993)Google Scholar.

9 Omar M. Dajani, Stalled Between Seasons: The International Legal Status of Palestine During the Interim Period, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 683, 745.

10 Id. at 746.

11 Orna Ben-Naftali, Aeyal M. Gross, & Keren Michaeli, Illegal Occupation: Framing the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 573, 608.

12 Id. at 635.

13 Yaël Ronen comments on this theory that it is not the duration that is the key element, but the fact that a lengthy occupation could mean the denial of either the reversionary rights of the former sovereign or the rights of the population to self-determination. See Ronen, Yaël, Illegal Occupation and its Consequences, 41 Isr. L. Rev. 201, 208 (2008)Google Scholar.

14 However, the Egyptian Judge, Nabil Elaraby, in a separate opinion characterized the occupation as “illegal.” Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 I.C.J. 131 (July 9) (separate Opinion of Judge Elaraby, section III) [hereinafter Legal Consequences of the Wall].

15 John McHugo, Resolution 242: A Legal Reappraisal of the Right-Wing Israeli Interpretation of the Withdrawal Phrase With Reference to the Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 357, 365.

16 Iain Scobbie, An Intimate Disengagement: Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, the Law of Occupation and of Self-Determination, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 637, 663.

17 Roger O'Keefe, Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Commentary, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 751.

18 Legal Consequences of the Wall, supra note 14.

19 O'Keefe, supra note 17, at 756.

20 Id. at 757.

21 See Sabel, Robbie, The International Court of Justice Decision on the Separation Barrier and the Green Line, 38 Isr. L. Rev. 316, 329 (2005)Google Scholar.

22 O'Keefe, supra note 17, at 791.

23 Pieter H.F. Bekker, The World Court's Ruling Regarding Israel's West Bank Barrier and the Primacy of International Law: An Insider's Perspective, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 817, 819.

24 Id. at 822.

25 Id. at 827.

26 S. C. Res. 1373, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1373 (September 28, 2001).

27 Aeyal M. Gross, The Construction of a Wall between The Hague and Jerusalem: The Enforcement and Limits of Humanitarian Law and the Structure of Occupation, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 833, 840.

28 See Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, art. 57, 70, June 8, 1977, 1125 U.N.T.S. 3.

29 Gross, supra note 27, at 849.

30 See, e.g., I.C.R.C., Summary of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and their Additional Protocols (1983)Google Scholar.

31 AP I, supra note 28, art. 57.

32 HCJ 2056/04 Beit Sourik Village Council v. The Government of Israel [2004] IsrSC 58 (5)Google Scholar, An English translation is available in HCJ 2056/04 Beit Sourik Village Council v. Government of Israel 58(5) PD. 807, 38 Isr. L. Rev. 83 (2005) and at http://elyon1.court.gov.il/files_eng/04/560/020/A28/04020560.a28.pdfCrossRefGoogle Scholar (last visited Oct. 27, 2009).

33 Victor Kattan, The Legality of the West Bank Wall: Israel's High Court of Justice v. The International Court of Justice, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 881.

34 HCJ 7957/04 Mara'abe v. The Prime Minister of Israel [2005] IsrSC 38(2) 393, ¶ 74, an English translation is available at http://elyon1.court.gov.il/files_eng/04/570/079/a14/04079570.a14.pdfGoogle Scholar; see also Mara'abe v. Prime Minister of Israel and others, Israel HCJ 7957/04 (2005), 45 I.L.M. 202 (2006)Google Scholar.

35 Kattan, supra note 33, at 902.

36 Id. at 926.

37 Id. at 932.

38 AP I, supra note 28, art. 1 (4).

39 Kattan, supra note 33, at 949.

40 Omar M. Dajani, Shadow or Shade? The Roles of International Law in Palestinian-Israeli Peace Talks, in The Palestine Question, supra note 1, at 982.

41 Id. at 1015.

42 Id. at 1017.

43 Id. at 1020-21.

44 Id. at 1034.

45 Supra note 23.

46 Id. at 823.

47 Weil, Prosper, Towards Relative Normativity in International Law, 77 Am. J. Int'l L. 413, 417 (1983)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.