How Mahmoud Abbas’s Bid for International Recognition Is Backfiring
Signing an anti-torture convention turned out to be a bad idea.
August 31, 2022
How Mahmoud Abbas’s Bid for International Recognition Is Backfiring
Signing an anti-torture convention turned out to be a bad idea.
Since 2010, the Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas—having rejected Israeli offers of statehood along with further negotiations—has pursued a strategy of seeking membership in international organizations for a “state of Palestine.” His goal is both to wage lawfare against Israel through such institutions as the International Criminal Court and, eventually, to gain recognition for a Palestinian state as the 194th member of the United Nations. Besides the fact that at least parts of this “Palestine 194” campaign are in violation of the Oslo Accords, it also is starting to raise other problems, as David May and Zachary Fesen explain:
August 31, 2022
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Basmanny justice.
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Today, less than 40 percent of the population identifies as Muslim.
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Henry Kissinger’s Religious Awakening
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