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The UN and the Assault on Israel's Legitimacy: Implications for the Roadmap

(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Anne Bayefsky - •The roadmap has significant roots in the UN, an organization long understood as biased against Israeli interests and Jewish well-being in general. •Examples include the work of the UN "Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories," established in 1968, and the UN "Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People," created in 1975. •There is a pressing need to clarify with the American administration what attributes of sovereignty will not be accorded a Palestinian state with provisional borders prior to final status negotiations. • Israel must reassert that its consent is necessary for any decision affecting its essential interests. An American commitment to object to any unilateral declaration of independence should be immediately forthcoming and clearly understood by the parties. • The UN and the EU must be kept out of any monitoring and assessment function. Recognition of a fundamental breach, and the ability to apply the necessary consequences, require that precise and public monitoring by Israel start now.
2003-08-06 00:00:00
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