Partitioning Palestine: Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

by John Strawson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745323235
• ISBN13: 9780745323237
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.4"