Fall 2025 1 Contents President’s Message Meir Linzen 2 Preface Roy Schöndorf and Daniel Reisner 4 Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem Statement of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists 8 Annex A: Israel’s Legal Claims to the West Bank 32 1. The Ottoman Empire – the last sovereign title over the West Bank 34 2. In place of Ottoman sovereignty – the creation of a Mandate 36 3. Terms of the Mandate – reconstituting a Jewish national home 37 4. The territorial scope of the Mandate included the present-day West Bank 37 5. The Mandate years – the terms and obligations of the Mandate remain unchanged 39 6. The continuation of the Mandate following the establishment of the United Nations and the rejection of the General Assembly partition plan 39 7. The establishment of the State of Israel – Israel retains its claims over the West Bank 42 8. Jordan’s claims to the West Bank and its renunciation thereof 44 9. Israeli control over the West Bank in 1967 and Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338 45 10. The evolving language used in UN Resolutions relating to the West Bank 46 11. Israel’s peace treaties with its neighbors left the status of the West Bank undetermined until a future political settlement 48 12. The “Oslo Accords” – Israel and the Palestinians agree to resolve their competing claims to the West Bank through bilateral negotiations 49 13. Concluding remarks 50 JUSTICE is published by The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IJL) 10 Daniel Frisch St. Tel Aviv 6473111, Israel Tel: +972 3 691 0673 Fax: +972 3 695 3855 office@ijl.org www.ijl.org © Copyright 2025 by IJL ISSN 0793-176X JUSTICE is published for members and friends of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. Opinions expressed in JUSTICE are those of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of JUSTICE or the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. The accuracy of articles appearing in JUSTICE is the sole responsibility of their authors. Articles in English are welcome but should be preceded by a query to the IJL Advisory Board at office@ijl.org. Back issues of JUSTICE are available at www.ijl.org. JUSTICE - Special Issue No. 75, Fall 2025 Editor Mala Tabory, Dr. Special Advisor Irit Kohn, Adv. Advisory Editor Alan D. Stephens Academic Advisory Board Michael Bazyler, Prof. Noemi Gal-Or, Dr. Oren Gross, Prof. Moshe Hirsch, Prof. Deborah Housen-Couriel, Adv. Robert Katz, Prof. Michla Pomerance, Prof. Arie Reich, Prof. Nicholas Rostow, Prof. Robbie Sabel, Prof. Amos Shapira, Prof. Malcolm N. Shaw, Prof. Joseph H. Weiler, Prof. Steven E. Zipperstein, Prof. Legal Editorial Staff Shani Birenbaum Jennifer Farrell, Esq. Gavriella Lazarus Graphic Design Climax Design Studio Ltd. www.climax-design.co.il | 03-7516747
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