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International Law

Abstract

Israel has now turned fifty, but the threats to its physical existence are still real and substantial. In certain respects, the combining of persistent Arab/Islamic enmity to Israel with proliferating weapons of mass destruction points toward more profound existential danger to the Jewish State than ever before. This danger is now compounded by the gradual replacement of traditional Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people,' with a new era of "post-Zionism", an anti-nationalist movement of the Jewish people.2 Taken together with the Oslo Accords, which are themselves the product of "post-Zionism," these developments comprise a problematic synergy that warrants careful scholarly examination.

The Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO3 are in violation of international law.4 Moreover, the Accords codify a condition of strategic inferiority for Israel that could bring the Jewish State into a genuinely catastrophic war. It follows that on both legal and strategic grounds, the Oslo Accords - now carrying existential threats to Israel's survival - should be promptly abrogated. With this in mind, the following two-pronged analysis proceeds sequentially along both jurisprudential and strategic tracks to identify (1) the intrinsic unlawfulness of the Oslo Accords 5 and (2) the associated military dangers to essential Israeli security (deterrence and defense) policies.

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