LEGAL ASPIRATIONS

Kattan later discusses the legal, moral, and political grounds that informed Palestinian and Arab objections to the 1947 UN Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer residing in Ramallah. 98 JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES partition plan, highlighting the marriage of convenience between European des...

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Published in:Journal of Palestine studies 2010-11, Vol.40 (1), p.97-98
Main Author: Buttu, Diana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agreements
Antisemitism
Colonialism
Colonies & territories
History
Imperialism
International law
Law
Marriage
Partition
Peace
Politics
Power
Recent Books
Refugees
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Summary:Kattan later discusses the legal, moral, and political grounds that informed Palestinian and Arab objections to the 1947 UN Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer residing in Ramallah. 98 JOURNAL OF PALESTINE STUDIES partition plan, highlighting the marriage of convenience between European desires to rid themselves of the Jewish refugee problem and Zionist ambitions for territory. Kattans analysis of Israels use and abuse of international law to achieve its goal of conquest begins and ends with observations on the peace process: [I]t is rather paradoxical that today the reverse of what was promised to Lord Rothschild in 1917 has transpired: instead of there being a Jewish national home in Palestine, as envisaged by the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate, we essentially have a situation where a Palestinian national home may be established within a Jewish state (p. 5). The problem derives from Beckers heavy-handed and mechanical view of imperialism. [...]asking a hackneyed question: [D]oes the pro-Israel lobbyor Israel itself through the lobbycontrol and direct U.S. policy in the Middle East?
ISSN:0377-919X
1533-8614
DOI:10.1525/jps.2010.XL.1.097