The Palestinians' Unilateral "Kosovo Strategy":

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ^ | 1/10/10 | Dan Diker

[Bokababe]

Senior Palestinian officials note that Palestinian unilateralism is modeled after Kosovo's February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia. European and U.S. support for Kosovo's unilateral declaration has led the Palestinian leadership to determine that geopolitical conditions are ripe to seek international endorsement of its unilateral statehood bid, despite the fact that leading international jurists have suggested that the cases of Kosovo and the Palestinian Authority are historically and legally different.

[Bokababe]

The Kosovo Albanians modeled themselves after the Palestinians in creating a politically motivated ethnic identity with which to battle for "rights". So it's no surprise that the Palestinians would then mimic the "Kosovars" in also demanding independence.

[Bokababe]

[Cacique]

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[Cicero]

despite the fact that leading international jurists have suggested that the cases of Kosovo and the Palestinian Authority are historically and legally different.

Well, no, they aren't. The Kosovo declaration of sovereignty was completely illegal, but long-standing principles of law and even by UN Law. It was raw theft of a province from Belgrade, conducted by force. A Palestinian declaration would be equally illegal.

Those of us who objected to Bush's stupid recognition of Kosovo, which was the work of that crook Bill Clinton, predicted that it would set a terrible precedent. And of course it has. Putin used it as an excuse to "liberate" South Ossetia. And no doubt many others will also use it as an excuse for similar illegal acts. If, like Putin, they have the power, then they will make it stick.

[FormerLib]

Hopefully, when Aztlan attempts to break away from the United States, we’ll be able to appeal to the UN to reverse their course in these matters.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually, the cases are legally and historically different: the Shiptars who displaced the Serbs from Kosovo had no legal claim on the land, while the Palestinians, by and large do. A census of the places at the turn of the 20th century would have found Palestine majority Arab and Kosovo majority Serb, and land titles largely reflect those facts.

[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

A census of the places at the turn of the 20th century

A census at the turn of the 20 century is not a basis of what I would singularly make an argument on.

[gitmogrunt]

This is the same policy employed by islam in Asia Minor, Lebanon, everywhere it raises it's ugly head.

It's nothing new under the sun, as long as western Nations turn tail and run,or hide behind political correctness, it is already in their bakyard.

[The_Reader_David]

I’m not so sure: in the case of Kosovo, the Nazi/Ustashe genocide, the Communist policy of diluting the Serbian population, and the influx of Albanians after the fall of Communism are all illegal under norms of international law as a basis for land claims (the first manifestly so, the latter two arguably so). The last legitimate land title to most of Kosovo rests with one or another Orthodox monastery or family of Serb farmers.

In the other case a similar argument sides with the Palestinians (though less strongly since no one committed genocide against them).

[SJackson]

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