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Partitioning Palestine
John Strawson
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Description for Partitioning Palestine
paperback. Argues that the plight of Palestine remains a colonial issue, and that legal tools are used to undermine Palestinian self-determination. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; LBBJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Law lies at the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Jews sought a national home by 'Public Law' while Palestinians reject the project as illegal. Britain, the League of Nations and the United Nations all mobilised international law to justify their interventions. After the 1967 war, Israel organised an occupation with excessive legalism that most of the world viewed, in fact, as illegal.
Partitioning Palestine focuses on three key moments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: the League of Nations Mandate, the United Nations partition plan and the Oslo agreements. None of these documents are neutral but, rather, encode ... Read more
Law lies at the roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Jews sought a national home by 'Public Law' while Palestinians reject the project as illegal. Britain, the League of Nations and the United Nations all mobilised international law to justify their interventions. After the 1967 war, Israel organised an occupation with excessive legalism that most of the world viewed, in fact, as illegal.
Partitioning Palestine focuses on three key moments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: the League of Nations Mandate, the United Nations partition plan and the Oslo agreements. None of these documents are neutral but, rather, encode ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745323237
SKU
V9780745323237
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About John Strawson
John Strawson is Reader in Law at the University of East London. He is the author of Partitioning Palestine: Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Pluto, 2010) and editor of Law After Ground Zero (2002).
Reviews for Partitioning Palestine
'John Strawson writes in the spirit of Edward Said, who emphasised the power of discursive images in texts. This [is a] fascinating and erudite analysis'
Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Bill Bowring, Birkbeck, University of London