Legal Perspectives on Israel's Statehood

Israel has valid, long-standing historical ties to the land.

No. Legally, no.

Legally, no. I mean, that's the claim.

Uh, it doesn't have any legal foundation.

In, uh, uh, in the League of Nations, um, uh, uh, covenant

that was part of the Versailles Treaty, the Palestine Mandate,

um, uh, was supposed to be provisionally

recognized as an independent

state, a state for everyone, a single state

for all the people on that land, not a state for a particular

racial group. So the idea-- And Jew...

Uh, Israel is a, uh, a Jewish state by definition,

and there is no legal basis for a specifically

Jewish state on that land

in international law.

What is or would be Israel's strongest argument before a

court of law?

For what?

To dominate, uh, Palestinians?

To... Uh, there is no argument for, for, for co- uh, committing

genocide. I mean, what, what would be the...

What needs to be justified?