Placing Politics over Law: The Folly of Conditional Recognition of a Palestinian State

By Omar Khoury In 1917, British author Israel Zangwill pithily remarked: “‘Give the country without a people,’ magnanimously pleaded Lord Shaftesbury, ‘to the people without a country.’ Alas, it was a misleading mistake, for the country holds 600,000 Arabs.” Along the same lines today: “‘Give a country to a people,’ magnanimously pleaded the leaders of […]