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December 20, 2018

The Palestinian Authority’s Contradictory Claims about Jerusalem

Occupied territory or corpus separatum?

Since 2011, the Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas has been pursuing a status of “internationalization,” in which the PA seeks to join various international bodies as the “state of Palestine” and then file lawsuits against Israel. Currently, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)—which, for technical reasons, is the body doing the suing—has one complaint before the International Criminal Court (ICC) and another before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Avi Bell notes that the claims it makes in the two courts regarding the status of Jerusalem contradict each other:

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December 20, 2018

  1. Israel, Greece, and Cyprus Emerge as a Bulwark of Freedom in the Eastern Mediterranean

    A counterweight to Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

  2. The Palestinian Authority’s Contradictory Claims about Jerusalem

    Occupied territory or corpus separatum?

  3. No, Texas Schools Don’t Require Employees to Sign a “Pro-Israel Oath”

    And anti-BDS bills don’t threaten freedom of speech.

  4. The Literary Genius of the Hebrew Bible

    Ancient Israelite authors “totally eclipsed their neighbors.”

  5. Marc Chagall’s Jewish Reality and His Jewish Imagination

    What exactly was it that his work captured?