02728nam 2200541 a 450 991078115410332120230725045042.01-84964-448-9(CKB)2550000000013169(StDuBDS)AH22933736(SSID)ssj0000424894(PQKBManifestationID)11965189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000424894(PQKBWorkID)10490783(PQKB)11028977(MiAaPQ)EBC3386222(Au-PeEL)EBL3386222(CaPaEBR)ebr10479712(CaONFJC)MIL987833(OCoLC)656841490(EXLCZ)99255000000001316920100723d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrPartitioning Palestine[electronic resource] legal fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict /John StrawsonLondon ;New York Pluto20101 online resource (264 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7453-2324-3 0-7453-2323-5 Includes bibliographical reference and index.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 a variety of meanings. The book traces the way in which these legal narratives have both shaped national identity and sharpened the conflict. In this pioneering text, John Strawson argues that a committed attachment to the belief in legal justice has hampered the search for a settlement. Law, far from offering conflict resolution, has reinforced the trenches from which Palestinians and Israelis confront one another.Arab-Israeli conflictLaw and legislationPalestineInternational statusPalestineHistoryPartition, 1947Arab-Israeli conflictLaw and legislation.341.26095694Strawson John567942MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781154103321Partitioning Palestine3750959UNINA