JUSTICE - No. 75

Cover	I
Contents	1
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
The Ottoman Empire – the last sovereign title over the West Bank	34
In place of Ottoman sovereignty – the creation of a Mandate	36
Terms of the Mandate – reconstituting a Jewish national home	37
The territorial scope of the Mandate included the present-day West Bank	37
The Mandate years – the terms and obligations of the Mandate remain unchanged	39
The continuation of the Mandate following the establishment of the United Nations and the rejection of the General Assembly partition plan	39
The establishment of the State of Israel – Israel retains its claims over the West Bank	42
Jordan’s claims to the West Bank and its renunciation thereof	44
Israeli control over the West Bank in 1967 and Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338	45
The evolving language used in UN Resolutions relating to the West Bank	46
Israel’s peace treaties with its neighbors left the status of the West Bank undetermined until a future political settlement	48
The “Oslo Accords” – Israel and the Palestinians agree to resolve their competing claims to the West Bank through bilateral negotiations	49
Concluding remarks	50

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