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23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Comprehensive analysis by highly respected scholar,
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This review is from: Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations (Hardcover)
The work of Julius Stone, one of the most prolific jurists of last century, is always authoritative and of excellent quality. This analysis of the legal issues surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict proves to be no exception, and for the most part it remains highly relevant to the situation today.'Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations' takes the deceptive mythology that is still current in its stride, convincingly debunking the Palestinian Arab claim to the land between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan and exposing the coerced partisanship of the United Nations in respect of the West in general and Israel in particular. Highly readable, comprehensive and superbly written. If you only buy one book on Middle East politics, buy this.
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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International law and the Arab-Israeli issue. Essential reading.,
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This review is from: Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations (Hardcover)
From the standpoint of international law, the learned author presents a comprehensive examination of the legal aspects surrounding the Middle East/Arab - Israeli conflict.
His well written, detailed and documented analysis reveals that there is allegedly no basis in international law for the formation of a "Palestinian state" on land now belonging to Israel. Replete with maps, documentation/references spanning many decades, the reader is provided with an in-depth study into how such an interpretation has been forthcoming. This study examines how international law can allegedly be "manipulated" through the United Nations where an automatic majority of Arab/Islamic nations and those regimes sympathetic to their cause or reliant upon their oil, can purportedly be amassed to swing any vote/Resolution against Israel. The reader is provided with insight into the alleged campaign against Israel via the "oil weapon" that, since 1973, has allegedly involved the "subversion" of basic principles of international law alongside an "illicit re-writing of history". The legal soundness and validity of international law in relation to the Arab - Israeli conflict is examined within both a historical and political context including the 4,000 year Jewish connection to the Land. Reference is even made to the attempt by the Roman Empire to "stamp out" Jewish nationhood and to "obliterate" historic Jewish identity in AD135, involving changning the name of the Jewish homeland to "Syria Palestina" and Jerusalem to "Aelia Capitolina". Arab claims within the context of the area's military conquest under Islam in the seventh century are also studied. The identity of the Palestinian people itself also receives attention, providing many references/quotes (even from Arab leaders) that reveal the Arabs living in Palestine in 1917 as possessing no cultural identity of their own. They purportedly being regarded by fellow Arabs as not being any different from their brethren in Syria, Lebanon etc. The book analyses the political "machinations" that were put in place during the 20th century to try and sidestep these perceived "shortcomings" in order that a political process could be created that would give rise to Palestinian national aspirations - despite the book revealing in no uncertain terms, that in 1919 there was "no distinguishable Palestinian nationhood". Bodies such as the UN are cited as often regarding their central issue, as the establishment of the "self determination claims of Palestinian Arabs" at the expense of Israel. The book goes to great lengths to illustrate how, surrounding post World War 1 "Versailles", (when the modern Mid-East was formed), the Ottoman Empire was so vast that a dozen independent Arab states came to be established out of it. The Arab nations described as claiming virtually the whole of these territories. By comparison the book reveals that the Jewish people only claimed "one small part" - Palestine - as it's historic home. An area to which they are cited as having four millenia of "unbroken connection". The book discusses the "vast territorial allocation" to the Arabs compared to the "minute fraction" being allocated to the Jews. The Arab land allocation being cited as more than one hundred times greater & hundreds of times richer, than the Palestine designated as the Jewish homeland. The study then scrutinises how the "already tiny allocation" afforded the Jews was then even further reduced by the creation of the kingdom of Transjordan in 1922 which reduced the proposed Jewish state by some 80% to create yet ANOTHER Arab state on land designated for the Jewish people. The reader is then taken upon an in-depth study of the political quagmire and conflicts that have plagued these issues in the subsequent decades, declaring the premise that Israel came into existence on the basis of injustice to a Palestinian nation as being a "facile assertion" (page 16). Emphasis again being made that "no such distinctive entity recognised itself or existed" at the time of the allocation between the Jewish and Arab peoples after the first world war. (also page 16). Also studied is, how in relation to the self-determination issue , UN Security Council Resolution 242 significantly excludes ANY reference to any national claims of Palestinian Arabs against Israel. Such not deemed to be an issue in the Mid-East conflict of 1967 or in 1973 when Resolution 338 reaffirmed 242. Among the many points made herein is that Jordan allegedly never had and still has no title in East Jerusalem/Judea & Samaria. Those areas having an "undefined" status following the British withdrawal in 1948 and with the abandonment of the Partition Resolution, a vacuum of sovereignty occurred in all areas west of the Jordan River not under Israeli control. In that situation, the book cites that sovereignty could be acquired by any state that was in a position to assert effective and stable control without resort to unlawful means. But the Jordanian occupation of Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem in 1948 was definitely unlawful because it purportedly constituted an act of aggression. By contrast, Israel's presence in all these areas pending negotiation of new borders is described as being entirely lawful, since Israel allegedly entered them lawfully in self-defence. International law forbids acquisition by unlawful force, but not where, as in the case of Israel's self-defence in 1967, the entry on the territory is described as being lawful. The book culminates with the assertion that, in international law, Israel has actual or potential rights of sovereignty in East Jerusalem, the "West Bank" and Gaza, with Jews having the right to enter and remain in all these areas. (It will be noted that these observations were made before the Oslo Accords). The late Julius Stone was Challis Professor of Jurisprudence and International Law at the University of Sydney from 1942 to 1972. He was recognised internationally as one of the premier legal theorists. This is an authoritative, easy to read book that needs to be on the desk of every politician. An essential study. Also recommended - "A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO" by Harris Okun Schoenberg
13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Comprehensive anaysis by highly respected scholar,
By A Customer
This review is from: Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations (Hardcover)
The work of Julius Stone, one of the most prolific jurists of last century, is always authoritative and of excellent quality. This analysis of the legal issues surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict proves to be no exception, and for the most part it remains highly relevant to the situation today.'Israel and Palestine: Assault on the Law of Nations' takes the deceptive mythology that is still current in its stride, convincingly debunking the Palestinian Arab claim to the land between the Mediterranean and the River Jordan and exposing the coerced partisanship of the United Nations in respect of the West in general and Israel in particular. Highly readable, comprehensive and superbly written. If you only buy one book on Middle East politics, buy this.
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