Eugene Kontorovich is a professor at George Mason University Antonin Scalia School of Law, director of its Center for International Law in the Middle East, and a scholar at the Kohelet Policy Forum in Jerusalem.
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Israel’s declaration was never intended to function as domestic law. There's no reason it should have been transformed into the quasi-constitution it is today.
Observation ·
Eugene Kontorovich thinks that the 1920 San Remo conference sits at the foundation of Israel's legitimacy. Martin Kramer disagrees. Who's right?
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Imagine what Israel would look like now if it had declined to apply its law to eastern Jerusalem after the Six-Day War. It shouldn't pass up a similar chance.
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There's a quadruple standard at work: a double standard within a double standard.
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Some of the people who now criticize the law were for it only a few years ago.
Monthly Essay ·
The controversial new law has been reviled as “an assassination of democracy” and a subversion of the founding principles of the Jewish state. It's neither.
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