The egalitarian shared sovereignty applied to territory in relation to
the Israel-Palestine difference
The
post today covers BORDERS (as a sub-element that has to do with territory) in
the context of the Israel-Palestine difference and introduce how the
EGALITARIAN SHARED SOVEREIGNTY applies to this issue.
Borders
are volatile (to say the least) in the already tense Israel-Palestine
difference. With communities presenting very different living standards and the
myriad of checkpoints the situation deteriorates on an ongoing basis. This past
few weeks’ events are self-evident.
A
general approach previously used in the region (and in many others around the
world by former colonial powers imposing them to former colonies) has to do
with partition solutions. They work under the assumption that the hostilities
between opposing ethnic groups makes it impossible for them to live peacefully
together in a single state (Haklai and Loizides, ed., 2015).
“The territories contested between Israel and
Palestinians are the ones Israel conquered from Jordan in the 1967 war,
including those commonly referred to as the West Bank and East Jerusalem
(Israel unilaterally withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and makes no
ownership claim of this territory). Many Jewish Israelis, religious and
secular, view these territories as part of their ancient homeland, Eretz Israel
(Land of Israel).”
In
recent years, all the solutions explicitly or implicitly suggest partition:
- The “two-state solution” presented by President Bill Clinton during the Camp David Summit and Taba talks (2000).
- The Roadmap to Peace introduced by President George W. Bush (2003) and endorsed by the United States, the United Nations, the European Union, and Russia.
- The UN Security Council Resolution 1397 (2002).
- The UN Security Council Resolution 1515 (2003).
- The Arab Peace Initiative, endorsed by the Arab League (2002 and 2007).
Haklai,
Oded and Loizides, Neophytos. 2015. Settlers in Contested Lands. Territorial
Disputes and Ethnic Conflicts. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
There
are many reasons to disagree with the partition solution. For an academic
reference see for example Laitin (2004), Sambanis (2000), Sambanis and
Schulhofer-Wohl (2009), and others. We’ll see tomorrow why the egalitarian
shared sovereignty may rule out extreme situations.
NOTE:
This post is based on Jorge Emilio Núñez, “Territorial Disputes and State
Sovereignty: International Law and Politics,” London and New York: Routledge,
Taylor and Francis Group, 2020 (forthcoming)
Previous
published research monograph about territorial disputes and sovereignty by the
author, Jorge Emilio Núñez, “Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and
Politics: A Distributive Justice Issue,” London and New York: Routledge, Taylor
and Francis Group, 2017.
NEXT
POST: The egalitarian shared sovereignty applied to territory in relation to
the Israel-Palestine difference (cont.)
Thursday 23rd January 2020
Dr Jorge Emilio Núñez
Twitter: @London1701
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