The Vatican, Palestinian statehood and international law
Much as the government of Israel, seeking to challenge a manifestly contrived PA declaration, will cite correctly relevant Oslo Agreement violations, the PA will then counter-argue, by fiat, that its own authority to declare an independent state is “peremptory.”
Israeli soldiers check cars at a checkpoint near the West Bank City of Jericho(photo credit: REUTERS)ByLOUIS RENÉ BERES