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

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The Legality of a Jewish State: A Century of Debate over Rights in Palestine - Quigley, John
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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 ...

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The Legality of a Jewish State: A Century of Debate over Rights in Palestine 2021, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781316519240

Hardcover