During the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine
(1939–1948), Arabs and Jews used the law as a resource to gain
leverage against each other and to influence international opinion.
The parties invoked "transformational legal framing" to portray the
essentially political-religious conflict as a legal dispute involving
claims of justice, injustice, and victimisation, and giving rise to
legal/equitable remedies. Employing this form of narrative and framing
in multiple "trials" during the first 15 years of the Mandate, the
parties continued the practice during the last and most crucial decade
of the Mandate. The term "trial" provides an appropriate typology for
understanding the adversarial proceedings during those years in which
judges, lawyers, witnesses, cross-examination, and legal argumentation
played a key role in the conflict. The four trials between 1939 and
1947 produced three different outcomes: the one-state solution in
favour of the Palestinian Arabs, the no-state solution, and the
two-state solution embodied in the United Nations November 1947
partition resolution, culminating in Israel's independence in May
1948. This study analyses the role of the law during the last decade
of the British Mandate for Palestine, making an essential contribution
to the literature on lawfare, framing and narrative, and the
Arab-Israeli Conflict.
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1939-1948
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ISBN
9781000484380
Publisert
2021
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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