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On Hezbollah, Huawei, Homosexuality, Sharon Stone and a Chainsaw: The Economic Normalization Agreement between Serbia and Kosovo

September 8, 2020

On September 4, 2020, an economic relations agreement was signed between Serbia and Kosovo, as part of efforts to resolve the long-standing dispute about Kosovo’s independence. It was brokered by the Trump administration and signed at the White House. President Trump called the agreement historic and its signatories – the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, and Prime Minister of Kosovo, Avdullah Hoti – great leaders (for more background see here, here, and here). As explained below, to describe this agreement as historic would be an overstatement, to put it mildly. Instead of setting the ground for what it will supposedly achieve – the normalization of economic relations between Serbia and Kosovo, thus advancing the welfare of their people – the agreement in reality seems to be a mishmash of different issues important mostly to President Trump in his campaign for the US presidential election this coming November. It is more like a New Year’s resolution list, as someone noted on Twitter, than…

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Editorial: The Legality of the Israeli Annexation – Redux

June 29, 2020

Once the American Administration recanted its long standing position as regards Israeli settlements, one could expect, as day follows night, that a shift on annexation would also follow, much to the delight of the Israeli government. It played well to the internal political agenda of both governments. In the case of settlements the State Department at least…

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The Monetary Gold Doctrine and the ICC: Can the ICC determine the Territorial Boundaries of Israel and Palestine?

June 16, 2020

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been engaged in a Preliminary Examination of the situation in Palestine since January 2015. By December 2019, the Prosecutor had come to the conclusion that there is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes have been, or are being, committed on territory of Palestine, and that the other…

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A critical assessment of the Government of Israel’s memorandum to the ICC – Part II

January 30, 2020

  In my previous post, I argued that contrary to the view of the GOI, a Palestinian state has existed since 1919, and a Palestinian government was established – even if momentarily – in the territories occupied by the armed forces of Egypt and Jordan during the 1948 war following the termination of the mandate. This was known…

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A critical assessment of the Government of Israel’s memorandum to the ICC – Part I

January 30, 2020

  On 20 December 2019, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) published a 112-page document requesting that Pre-Trial Chamber 1 rule within 120 days on the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in the situation in Palestine. On the same day the request was made public, the Government of Israel (GOI) published a 34-page memorandum of the Office…

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