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Israel's Settlement-Policy Stumbling-Block in the Middle East Peace Process

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2007

PAUL J. I. M. DE WAART
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Abstract

According to Israel's Guide to the Mideast Peace Process, charges regarding the illegality of Israeli settlements in the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have no foundation in international law. Peace efforts between Israel and Palestine will have no chance of success as long as Israel uses its prolonged military occupation to promote and protect its annexation-in-disguise of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. John Dugard has passed on this hard truth consistently as Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the OPT. The international community should take the same hard line towards the Guide as it has done towards the Hamas Charter. If it wants to establish a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, it should not allow Israel to bend the truth any more in respect of the legality of the Israeli settlements in the OPT as Hamas has done in respect of the illegality of Israel.

Keywords

International Court of JusticeIsraeli–Palestinian conflictIsraeli settlement policyLeague of Nations Mandatepartition resolutionRoad Map for PeaceSecurity Council
Type
"ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF JOHN DUGARD: THE PROTECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN INTERNATIONAL LAW"
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 825 - 839
Copyright
© 2007 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law

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