P F Tinmore
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You are starting in the middle.RE: Israeli forces shoot unarmed protesters from across Gaza security fence, killing at least 15
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OH for heaven sake!!!
Article 1(2), UN Charter: To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;
Article 2(4), UN Charter: All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.
(COMMENT)You keep banging on about sovereignty being the purview of a government or state. States come and go. Governments change. However, what is consistent is the people's rights to their territory.
Whenever you see the mention of standard rights: The right to self determination, the right to independence and sovereignty, and the right to territorial integrity, they are always attributed to the people in a defined territory. Governments and states are never mentioned.
Yes Empires, States, and Governments do come and go. And the fact that each shift in territorial government does not reqirewhole sale genocide, is often observed.
The Concept of Sovereignty
Revisited
Jens Bartelson
The European Journal of International Law Vol. 17 no.2 © EJIL 2006; all rights reserved
The first view, the sovereign state is unlikely to remain the main locus of political authority and community in the future. It is challenged by new constellations of authority and community which transcend the divide between the domestic and the international spheres, and will soon be replaced by new forms of political life that know nothing of this distinction.
The second view, the sovereign state is likely to remain a potent source of authority and community even in the future. Those emergent constellations of authority and community that allegedly challenge the predominance of the sovereign state are ultimately only manifestations of its successful sovereignty claims. They are thus indicative of the remarkable endurance of this concept in both theory and practice. When properly understood, therefore, the concept of sovereignty retains much of its explanatory power and normative relevance.
Sovereignty
politics
Written By: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sovereignty, in political theory, the ultimate overseer, or authority, in the decision-making process of the state and in the maintenance of order. The concept of sovereignty—one of the most controversial ideas in political science and international law—is closely related to the difficult concepts of state and government and of independence and democracy.
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In international law, the people are "married" to their land. They cannot be removed from their land and their land cannot be taken from them.
According to international law, the Treaty of Lausanne, the Palestinian Citizenship Order, and affirmed by resolution 181, the Palestinians are citizens of Palestine. They are the ones with the right to sovereignty within their defined territory.