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PALESTINE,
PALESTINIANS, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
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by Francis A. Boyle
Forthcoming in 2003 Clarity Press (claritypress@usa.net)
Over the past two decades, no non-Palestinian has had as much
direct
 and personal experience in the struggle for Palestinian
self-determination,
human rights, and an independent state of their own as the
author. Starting
in 1987, he served as Legal Advisor to the Palestine
Liberation Organization
on the Palestinian Declaration of Independence of 15 November
1988 as well as on the ensuing Palestinian Peace Initiative.
He then served as Lega Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation
to the Middle East Peace Negotiations from 1991 to 1993.
There, at the instructions of the Head of the Delegation, Dr.
Haidar Abdul Shaffi, the author drafted the Palestinian
Alternative to what later became the now defunct Oslo
Agreement. In November of 2000, the author launched the
Israeli Divestment/Disinvestment
Campaign that now has branches on over 50 college campuses
around the United States. This grassroots movement is taking
off internationally. The author has written this book for all
of those around the world who want to work for peace with
justice for all peoples and states in the Middle East.
This book provides a comprehensive survey of the international
legal
principles related to the Palestinian struggle for
self-determination:
starting with the League of Nations awarding the Mandate for
Palestine to Britain after the First World War; through the
partition of the Palestine Mandate by the United Nations after
the Second World War; to the Palestinian Declaration of an
Independent State of their own in 1988; to the diplomatic
recognition of the Palestinian State by about 130 other
states; through the United Nations granting the State of
Palestine all the rights of a U.N.
Member State but the right to vote, etc. During the past two
decades, the author has provided the Leadership of the
Palestinian People with advice, counsel, and representation at
all stages of this process. The scholarly analyses that he
used to back up this critical work can be found in the pages
of this book. Another chapter analyzes the hypocrisy and
double-standards behind the Bush Jr. administration's bogus
"war on international terrorism," with special reference to
U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East and the Muslim
World after 11 September 2001.
The concluding chapter provides advice and guidance to the
international grassroots Campaign for Israeli Divestment
/Disinvestment, which were all inspired by the author's
involvement in the original Divestment/Disinvestment Campaign
against the former criminal apartheid regime in South Africa.
Today the Republic of South Africa stands as a beacon of hope
for oppressed peoples and states all over the world. The same
can be true for Palestine and Israel. This book explains why
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