1. Is Palestine a state? By any standards of customary international law - as codified in the Montevideo Convention1933 - Palestine is not a state since it fails to comply with article 1 which declares:
The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: a ) a permanent population; b ) a defined territory; c ) government; and d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.
The Security Council ignores international law at its peril should it decide to depart from these well understood and universally accepted legal principles required for statehood.
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2. Is Palestine a warmonger or a peace lover?
On even the most cursory inquiry Palestine is a war monger - not in any way peace loving - for the following reasons:
(a) Since 1 January 2011 to date 379 rockets and 225 mortars have been indiscriminately fired into Israeli population centers from Palestine killing many Israeli citizens, injuring hundreds of others and causing vast property damage. Responsibility for these attacks have been claimed by a number of organizations including
- Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine
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David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International - an organisation calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at www.jordanispalestine.blogspot.com.
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