T. Belman. I decided to repost this important article because the title was right then and is right now. The UNGA recently recognized the State of Palestine contrary to the Montevideo Convention which sets out the legal requirements for statehood:
The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.
At a minimum, “Palestine” does not have a “defined territory.”
Another example of the UN ignoring the law. The UN backed Oslo Accords clearly gives Israel full control of Area C. Nevertheless the UN and its member states are financing Arab construction in Area C in total disregard of the Oslo Accords.
My 2009 article Can the UN impose a solution on Israel? shed’s further light on the purpose of the UN
By Ted Belman (Published April 21, 2012)
The United Nations’ Human Rights Council has resorted to official enquiries as a precursor to damning Israel — the most recent of which was the Goldstone Enquiry on Cast Lead, Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza. And we know how that turned out. Israel was accused of all manner of war crimes, though none were proven to have been committed.
Last week, the UNHRC passed a resolution to “dispatch an independent international fact-finding mission, to be appointed by the president of the Human Rights Council, to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.” The resolution was based, inter alia, on a written statement produced by Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, a Palestinian NGO financed by a number of European countries.
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