The Illusion of a Palestinian 'Demilitarized' State
Mar 5, 2024 18:47:56 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Mar 5, 2024 18:47:56 GMT -5
The Illusion of a Palestinian 'Demilitarized' State
by Bassam Tawil
March 5, 2024 at 5:00 am
ny commitment to a demilitarized state by the Palestinian leadership would be legally worthless.
"Any treaty is void if, at the time it was entered into, it conflicts with a 'peremptory' rule of general international law (jus cogens) – a rule accepted and recognized by the international community of states as one from which 'no derogation is permitted.' Because the right of sovereign States to maintain military forces essential to 'self-defense' is such a peremptory rule, Palestine, depending upon its particular form of authority, could be entirely within its right to abrogate any pre-independence agreement that had compelled its demilitarization." [Italics in original.] — Louis René Beres, professor emeritus at Purdue University, and an expert in international law and political science, jurist.org, December 23, 2023.
"Therein lies the jurisprudential core of the Palestinian demilitarization problem: International law would not necessarily require Palestinian compliance with any pre-state agreements concerning the use of armed force. From the standpoint of such authoritative law, enforcing demilitarization upon a sovereign state of Palestine would be sorely problematic." [Italics in original.] — Louis René Beres, jurist.org, December 23, 2023
"Unhidden, both the Arab world and Iran still have only a 'One-State Solution' for the 'Israel Problem.' It is a 'solution' that eliminates Israel altogether, a physical solution, a 'Final Solution.' Even today, official Arab maps of 'Palestine' (PNA and Hamas) show the prospective Arab State comprising all of the West Bank (Judea/Samaria), all of Gaza and all of Israel. They knowingly exclude any references to a Jewish population and list 'holy sites' of Christians and Muslims only." — Louis René Beres, jurist.org, December 23, 2023
No one can stop a future Palestinian state from becoming a lawless and militarized state. Such a state on Israel's doorstep would pose a direct and grave threat to Israel's existence and actually facilitate the mission of the Iranian regime and its terror proxies to murder more Jews.
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by Bassam Tawil
March 5, 2024 at 5:00 am
ny commitment to a demilitarized state by the Palestinian leadership would be legally worthless.
"Any treaty is void if, at the time it was entered into, it conflicts with a 'peremptory' rule of general international law (jus cogens) – a rule accepted and recognized by the international community of states as one from which 'no derogation is permitted.' Because the right of sovereign States to maintain military forces essential to 'self-defense' is such a peremptory rule, Palestine, depending upon its particular form of authority, could be entirely within its right to abrogate any pre-independence agreement that had compelled its demilitarization." [Italics in original.] — Louis René Beres, professor emeritus at Purdue University, and an expert in international law and political science, jurist.org, December 23, 2023.
"Therein lies the jurisprudential core of the Palestinian demilitarization problem: International law would not necessarily require Palestinian compliance with any pre-state agreements concerning the use of armed force. From the standpoint of such authoritative law, enforcing demilitarization upon a sovereign state of Palestine would be sorely problematic." [Italics in original.] — Louis René Beres, jurist.org, December 23, 2023
"Unhidden, both the Arab world and Iran still have only a 'One-State Solution' for the 'Israel Problem.' It is a 'solution' that eliminates Israel altogether, a physical solution, a 'Final Solution.' Even today, official Arab maps of 'Palestine' (PNA and Hamas) show the prospective Arab State comprising all of the West Bank (Judea/Samaria), all of Gaza and all of Israel. They knowingly exclude any references to a Jewish population and list 'holy sites' of Christians and Muslims only." — Louis René Beres, jurist.org, December 23, 2023
No one can stop a future Palestinian state from becoming a lawless and militarized state. Such a state on Israel's doorstep would pose a direct and grave threat to Israel's existence and actually facilitate the mission of the Iranian regime and its terror proxies to murder more Jews.
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