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3 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 247 (1970)
Peace and the Palestinians

handle is hein.journals/nyuilp3 and id is 257 raw text is: PEACE AND THE PALESTINIANS JULIUS STONE* I. INTRODUCTION The idea of a Palestinian Entity, articulated concurrently among the Arab States and the Palestinian refugees, is a creature of the past decade. The establishment of a Palestine Arab State had been proposed long ago, of course, in the Partition Resolution of 19471 and accepted on behalf of the future state of Israel.2 The subsequent invasion of the newly formed Israeli state by six Arab countries thwarted its establishment. Although condemned even by the Soviets,3 the invasion left Jordan and Egypt in military occu- pation of substantial parts of the abortive Palestine Arab State: the West Bank of the Jordan River, the Gaza Strip and East Jeru- salem. Had the concept of a Palestine Arab State not thus come to grief, the specific nationhood of its population, scarcely mani- fest at the time, would perhaps have grown with the responsibility and experience of statehood. That possibility did not materialize. It was not until the decade of the 1960's, and probably not until after the 1967 war, that Palestinianism in the specific sense made its entrance on the international stage. The fact that this entry was made in an explosive context of political passion and armed violence should not cloud the long term issue which it raises. The notion of a Palestinian Entity was invoked by Arab States at Arab League meetings in 19594 against a background of * S.J.D., Harvard University; D.C.L., Oxford University. Challis Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, University of Sydney. This article vw s prepared during a visit by the author to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the late Spring of 1970. Later developments, such as the stand of Egypt and Jordan against the liberation terrorist groups in relation to the U.S. peace initiative, the successive crises between Jordan and these groups and the Jor- danian defeat of the Syrian intervention, illustrate the main theme. 1. GA. Res. 181(11), U.N. Doc. A/519, at 131 (1947). 2. 3 U.N. GAOR, Ad Hoc Comm. on the Partition of Palestine (1947). The Israeli representative at the meetings was the Jewish Agency for Palestine. 3. 4 U.N. SCOR, 306th meeting 7 (1948). Remarks of the Ukrainian delegate. 4. N.Y. Times, Sept. 3, 1959, at 3, col. I; id., Sept. 4, 1959, at 3. col 2; Id., Imaged with the Permission of N.Y.U. Journal of International Law and Politics

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