IN mid-2023, the United Nations quietly released one of the most consequential legal studies on the Question of Palestine in recent history. Unlike the usual stream of resolutions and policy statements, this was no ordinary publication. It was a formal legal study – one of only a handful ever commissioned by the UN – produced by leading international legal scholars. Its findings were sharp, direct, and unambiguous. And almost immediately, it was buried.
Buried, I believe, not for irrelevance but because of its clarity. It was too precise. Too damning. Too actionable.
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