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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/preempting-the-icc-decision-to-invent-palestine/
The ICC Considers Inventing "Palestine"
(JNS) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - For the last few months, the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Pre-Trial Chamber has been weighing whether to invent a "State of Palestine" and set its borders. In order to invent a state that does not exist, and has never existed, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda had to negate or ignore critical documents that designated for Israel all the areas she now claims to be part of the "State of Palestine." These documents include the Balfour Declaration, the decisions made by the Allied forces in San Remo, Italy, following the First World War, and the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. All these documents reaffirmed the historic connection of the Jewish people to the area from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea and granted that area to the Jewish people for its future state. She also had to discount the Arab rejection of the UN Partition Plan; turn the 1948/9 Armistice Lines - which the Arabs demanded never be seen as borders - into borders; and negate clear provisions of the Oslo Accords that specifically deny the Palestinian Authority state status. These acrobatics were possible because the proceedings against Israel are entirely politically motivated. The writer, head of legal strategies for Palestinian Media Watch, served for 19 years in the IDF Military Advocate General Corps, including as Director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.