(Washington Post) Eugene Kontorovich - The ICC prosecutor did not actually determine that Palestine qualifies as a "state" under the well-established legal definitions of the term. Rather, she substituted the determination of the UN General Assembly in 2012 to call Palestine a "non-member state." The GA is not a judicial body but a political one. Its determinations are political, not legal. (It also has no power under the UN Charter to create or recognize states.) The writer is a professor at Northwestern University School of Law.
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