The Future Of Palestinian Citizens In Israel
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Although the state of Israel has ratified various human rights treaties, among them the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, it has not ratified the protocol of the ICCPR. Therefore the Palestinians citizens of the state of Israel cannot lodge complaints to Human Rights Committee. Bearing in mind that international law vouchsafes the right of self-determination to people; this article will discuss the criteria of people hood in order to assert that Palestinian Arab citizens of the state of Israel might meet those criteria. If so. Is the autonomous regime an alternative option for them as a form of internal self-determination? Which kind of autonomous regime is the most suitable for them?
International law does not clearly respond to the need for precise definition. People hood must be seen as contingent on two separate elements, one objective and the other subjective. The objective element is that there has to exist an ethnic linked by common history…Side by side with the objective element, there is also a subjective basis to people hood. It is not enough to have an ethnic link in the sense of past genealogy and history. It is essential to have a present ethos or state of mind. A people is both entitled and required to identify itself as such.
Taking into account the Declaration 2625 of 1970, which states that the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent states shall not be impaired, Palestinians Arab citizens of the state of Israel would not threaten the territorial integrity of the state of Israel if they exercised their internal self-determination. This is because they are scattered throughout the country.
Palestinian Arab citizens of the State can be termed a people according to objective and subjective criteria. International Law recognizes the right of self-determination to all people and acknowledges that it entails representative government to all peoples within multi-people States.
Power sharing autonomy is the most suitable form of autonomous regime in the state of Israel, it would be implemented within the fabric of the state of Israel, within the constitutional structure of the State, and would guarantee the right of internal-self determination to the Palestinian Arab citizens of the state of Israel to enjoy equality at the same time to preserve their own way of life. This type of autonomous regime would not endanger the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the state of Israel.
International law does not clearly respond to the need for precise definition. People hood must be seen as contingent on two separate elements, one objective and the other subjective. The objective element is that there has to exist an ethnic linked by common history…Side by side with the objective element, there is also a subjective basis to people hood. It is not enough to have an ethnic link in the sense of past genealogy and history. It is essential to have a present ethos or state of mind. A people is both entitled and required to identify itself as such.
Taking into account the Declaration 2625 of 1970, which states that the territorial integrity or political unity of sovereign and independent states shall not be impaired, Palestinians Arab citizens of the state of Israel would not threaten the territorial integrity of the state of Israel if they exercised their internal self-determination. This is because they are scattered throughout the country.
Palestinian Arab citizens of the State can be termed a people according to objective and subjective criteria. International Law recognizes the right of self-determination to all people and acknowledges that it entails representative government to all peoples within multi-people States.
Power sharing autonomy is the most suitable form of autonomous regime in the state of Israel, it would be implemented within the fabric of the state of Israel, within the constitutional structure of the State, and would guarantee the right of internal-self determination to the Palestinian Arab citizens of the state of Israel to enjoy equality at the same time to preserve their own way of life. This type of autonomous regime would not endanger the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of the state of Israel.
