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The Status of Judea and Samaria Revisited: A Response to Eyal Benvenisti

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2018

Yehuda Z Blum
Yehuda Z Blum*
Affiliation:
Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law (Emeritus), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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The July 2017 issue of the Israel Law Review celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its publication, and for that occasion selected five articles (one for each decade) which, in the Editors’ view, ‘had a lasting impact on scholarly debate and beyond’. For the first decade the Editors chose my article ‘The Missing Reversioner: Reflections on the Status of Judea and Samaria’, which appeared in the July 1968 issue, and asked Professor Eyal Benvenisti to comment on my piece, which he did under the title ‘An Article that Changed the Course of History?’ Not unexpectedly, Benvenisti has made a frontal attack on the central thesis of my article, which he reproduced in virtually identical language in the April 2017 issue of the American Journal of International Law.

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Israel Law Review , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , July 2018 , pp. 165 - 168
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2018 

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