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Jurisdiction Over Palestine--An Analysis Of The Conflicting Arab-Israeli Claims Of Legal Title, Peter A. Schuller Jan 1978

Jurisdiction Over Palestine--An Analysis Of The Conflicting Arab-Israeli Claims Of Legal Title, Peter A. Schuller

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The recent controversy over the establishment of Israeli settlements in occupied territory has resurrected a thirty year dispute over territorial sovereignty in the area referred to before 1948 as Palestine...

This note will attempt to analyze the conflicting legal claims to Palestine under a standard likely to be applied by an international judicial tribunal operating in conjunction with or under the auspices of the International Court of Justice. The analysis will be concerned not with the political or quasi-legal claims of the respective parties, examples of which are Israeli historical claims based upon decades of alleged persecution and Arab claims …