Re: International law support for Israel's boundaries

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

2025-06-01 5:08 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

To follow on with a related point, quite a number of countries recognize
a state called Palestine, although mostly not the main Western states.
(That may be on the verge of changing with threats by countries like the
UK and Canada since Oct 7 to recognize Palestine.) But what would the
boundaries of that Palestine be? Would it be Gaza alone? Gaza plus the
West Bank as currently delimited by Israel? Or the Palestine that
Palestinians themselves actually want, best described as "from the river
to the sea" or "the one state solution" which envisions the Jews all
being dead or deported?

Recognizing a state within another state isn't allowed and would put
them in a technical state of war with Israel.

By "them" do you mean the countries that recognize Palestine, of which
there are already many? Or the new "state" of Palestine?

If Palestine is recognized as a state as opposed to the nonstate status
it has currently, and it is recognized to have definite boundaries
including a portion or all of Jerusalem, then that nation has put itself
into a technical state of war with Israel.

It's forbidden to recognize a new state including some or all of the
territory of an existing state in international law. That's literally a
state of war.