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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Where Abu Mazen should go - Curtis Doebbler

[Analysis] Ma'an
...he could confront the Western powers with the reality of international law. This reality requires emphasizing that the Palestinian people never had the opportunity to exercise the right to self-determination to which they are entitled as a matter of international law.

Under international law, very good arguments can and have been made that it is not the 1948 borders or the 1967 borders that form the territory over which Palestinians have the right to self-determination but the whole of Palestine. Full story