WHY ISRAEL HATES INTERNATIONAL LAW

We didn’t want to establish a mechanism for conflict resolution by a third party, because when there’s a strong versus a weak partner, the third party tends to take the side of the weak. - Joel Singer, Legal Advisor to Israel's Foreign Ministry, who helped formulate the Oslo Accords (1996) Source: Lev G. Grinberg, Politics and…

THE OSLO PROCESS DID NOT FAIL

I prefer the Palestinians to cope with the problem of enforcing order in Gaza. The Palestinians will be better at it than we were, because they will allow no appeals to the Supreme Court and will prevent the [Israeli] Association for Civil Rights from criticising the conditions there by denying it access to the area.…