Arguments against Israel’s Annexation of the Golan Make a Mockery of International Law
And contradict every legal claim made on behalf of the Palestinians.
April 8, 2019
Arguments against Israel’s Annexation of the Golan Make a Mockery of International Law
And contradict every legal claim made on behalf of the Palestinians.
The minute President Trump announced U.S. recognition of Israeli claims to the Golan Heights, seasoned former diplomats, policy experts, and scholars of international law rushed to condemn this alleged flouting of international norms—bound, in their view, to give succor to imperialists and aggressors everywhere. But such assertions, Shany Mor argues, are so riddled with inconsistencies as to suggest that, in the hands of these practitioners, international law means nothing more than “whatever Israel does is illegal.” Mor begins with the objection that Israel, in seizing the Golan in the 1967 Six-Day War, failed to respect international borders:
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