The remarks came at a White House presser announcing the USA
is no longer a party to the world body International Court of Justice (ICJ).
The move primarily asserts that the United States will not lose its National
Sovereignty to a world government body. And secondly the remarks thumb a news
at those who interfere in Israel’s National Sovereignty by telling the Jewish
State where and where not it can place its Capital City within the (true)
Nation’s national borders.
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Bolton: ‘Palestine’ is not a state
By Batya Jerenberg
October 4, 2018
“It’s not a state now. It
does not meet the customary international law test of statehood,” US National
Security Adviser John Bolton stated.
US National Security Adviser John Bolton put the Palestinian
Authority’s (PA) official status into perspective at a Wednesday press briefing
when he announced that the United States would no longer be a signatory party
to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice
(ICJ).
“The president has decided that the United States will
withdraw from the optional protocol and dispute resolution to the Vienna
Convention on Diplomatic Relations. This is in connection with a case brought
by the so-called state of Palestine naming the United States as a defendant [in
the ICJ], challenging our move of our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,”
Bolton said.
White House reporters immediately jumped on the adjective,
asking whether calling the Palestinian Authority (PA) a “so-called state” was
“productive,” considering that President Donald Trump had said he was working
towards a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Bolton’s answer was unequivocal.
“It’s not a state now. It does not meet the customary
international law test of statehood,” he said. “It doesn’t control defined
boundaries. It doesn’t fulfill the normal functions of government. There are a
whole host of reasons why it’s not a state.”
“It could become a state, as the president said, but that
requires diplomatic negotiations with Israel and others,” he added. “So calling
it the ‘so-called state of Palestine’ defines exactly what it has been.
[That’s] the position that the United States government has pursued uniformly
since 1988, when the Palestinian Authority declared itself to be the State of
Palestine.”
VIDEO: At White
House presser, National Security Advisor Bolton insists Palestine has no claim
to statehood
[Posted by Raw Story
Published on Oct 3, 2018]
Bolton might have been referring to the fact that 137
countries have recognized the PA as a state since that date. He reiterated the
US rejection of this position on a bipartisan level.
“We don’t recognize it as a state… We have consistently, across
Democratic and Republican administrations, opposed the admission of ‘Palestine’
to the UN as a state because it’s not a state.”
Although the PA is only a “non-member observer state” at the
UN, it was allowed to formally join the International Criminal Court in 2015.
Since the court’s decisions are binding, the US, by leaving the protocol,
blocked the Palestinian case.
Bolton added that the withdrawal was part of a general
effort by the Trump
administration to protect US sovereignty from the reach of the
international court.
“We will commence a review of all international agreements
that may still expose the United States to purported binding jurisdiction
dispute resolution in the International Court of Justice,” he said. “The United
States will not sit idly by as baseless politicized claims are brought against
us.”
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