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Palestine Statehood: A Rejoinder to Professor Robert Weston Ash

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Professor Robert Weston Ash, in his response to my article The Palestine Declaration to the International Criminal Court: The Statehood Issue [supra in this Volume, Chap. 10—ChM], takes issue with my position that Palestine is a state.

President’s Club Professor in Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University. This article was first published in 36 Rutgers Law Record (2009), 257–263.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Supra, Chap. 11 in this Volume, previously published as Ash 2009.

  2. 2.

    See supra Chap. 11, respectively at Sects. 11.2, 11.3, and 11.4. [Ash 2009 at 188, 193, 197].

  3. 3.

    Id. at Sect. 11.2.

  4. 4.

    Id.

  5. 5.

    Israeli–Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Sept. 28, 1995, UN Doc. A/51/889, S/1997/357, reprinted in 8 PAL. Y.B. INT’L L. 353 (1994–1995).

  6. 6.

    Id., Article IV(5), at 360.

  7. 7.

    Id., Article XXXI(6), at 371.

  8. 8.

    Talmon 1998.

  9. 9.

    Palestine National Council, Declaration of Independence, Nov. 15, 1988, UN Doc. A/43/827, S/20278, Annex III, 18 November 1988, reprinted in 27 ILM 1668 (1988).

  10. 10.

    See supra Chap. 11 at Sect. 11.2.

  11. 11.

    See Kelsen 1941.

  12. 12.

    Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion, 2004 ICJ 136, at 167 (July 9) [hereinafter “Legal Consequences”].

  13. 13.

    Quigley, supra Chap. 10 [previously published as Quigley 2009].

  14. 14.

    See supra Chap. 11, at Sect. 11.3.

  15. 15.

    Id.

  16. 16.

    See supra Chap. 10, at Sects. 10.5, 10.6.

  17. 17.

    Convention on Rights and Duties of States, Dec. 26, 1933, Article. 7, 165 LNTS 19 (stating, “The recognition of a state may be express or tacit”).

  18. 18.

    GA Res. 43/177, UN Doc. A/RES/43/177 (1988), available at http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.nsf/181c4bf00c44e5fd85256cef0073c426/146e6838d505833f852560d600471e25?OpenDocument.

  19. 19.

    See Paul Lewis 1989.

  20. 20.

    UN Doc. A/44/L.50 (Nov. 29, 1989).

  21. 21.

    Lewis 1989.

  22. 22.

    Kempster 1989.

  23. 23.

    UN General Assembly, 32d session, 27th plen. mtg. at 513, UN Doc. A/32/PV.27 (Oct. 10, 1977).

  24. 24.

    UN SCOR, 31st sess., 1870th mtg. at 2–3, 12–13, UN Doc. S/PV.1870 (Jan. 12, 1976). See also Suy 1978, pp. 138–139.

  25. 25.

    Legal Consequences, at 194.

  26. 26.

    Id.

  27. 27.

    Id. at 184.

  28. 28.

    Id. at 141.

  29. 29.

    Statute of the International Court of Justice, Article 66.

  30. 30.

    Legal Consequences, at 251.

  31. 31.

    GA Res. 43/177.

  32. 32.

    SC Res. 662, UN Doc. S/RES/662 (1990) (seeking restoration of the “sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Kuwait.”), available at http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/category,LEGAL,,,KWT,3b00f13750,0.html.

  33. 33.

    See, e.g., Tamimi v. Minister of Defence, H.C. 507/85, 41(4) Piskei 1988; accord Dinstein 2009, pp. 277–279.

  34. 34.

    See supra Chap. 11, Sect. 11.4.

  35. 35.

    See Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (Israel-PLO), Sept. 13, 1993, reprinted in 32 ILM 1525 (1993).

  36. 36.

    See Palestine National Council: Political Communique and Declaration of Independence, Nov. 15, 1988, UN Doc.A/43/827, S/20278, Annex III, Nov. 18, 1988, reprinted in 27 ILM 1668 (1988).

  37. 37.

    See Ash 2009 [and supra Chap. 11].

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Quigley, J. (2011). Palestine Statehood: A Rejoinder to Professor Robert Weston Ash. In: Meloni, C., Tognoni, G. (eds) Is There a Court for Gaza?. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-820-0_12

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