More importantly, Abbas’ Palestinian Authority itself is a product of the interim accords. If it were superseded by a UN-endorsed state, Israel could cut off relations with the Palestinian government.
In fact, Robbie Sabel, a former legal adviser to Israel’s foreign ministry and now a lecturer in international law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said that Israel would be within its legal rights to cancel all the partial peace accords.
“Israel could say there has been such a gross and major violation that the agreement itself is no longer in force,” he said, since the agreement stipulates that all outstanding issues must be settled in negotiations.
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