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t ؛e أ ؟estine ҏe إoo ؞o
inte إntion ؟ ؟ تሜም (ሜሚሜሜ) ምᅬሞሣ
Palestine
earbooƴ of
International
Law
The Question of Palestine as a Litmus Test:
On Human Rights and Root Causes
Nimer Sultany
Contents
I Introduction
II ƻartheidᅷs IndeterminacDŽ and Limits
III Root Causes and Colonialism
Root Causes, Self-Determination, Resistance
B Limits of Root Causes
C Law’s Limits and Complicity
I Law and ImƻunitDŽ
The Discourse of Failure and Its Discontents
B More Law?
SelectivitDŽ and the Rulesᅟased International Order
Forces of Impunity: Against Root Causes
B Accountability and Selectivity at the ICC
I Conclusions
I Introduction
Recent mainstream human rights discourse disƻlaDŽs a ƻaradoxical movement.
On the one hand, there is a growing movement toward the acƴnowledgement
of the realitDŽ of Israeli aƻartheid. On the other hand, there is a growing recogniᅟ
tion of the longᅟstanding imƻunitDŽ that enabled the consolidation of aƻartheid
in the ƧƬrst ƻlace. he ƧƬrst move maDŽ revive faith in international law bDŽ namᅟ
ing wrongs, articulating legal remedies, and demanding action. It moves the
legal debate from the futilitDŽ of international humanitarian law (IHL ), which
has failed to even humanize the conƥƷict, to the international legal terrain of
aƻartheid. In contrast, the recognition of imƻunitDŽ would seem to increase
sƴeƻticism toward the lawᅷs abilitDŽ to deliver the ƻromise of accountabilitDŽ and
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