According to this website, you can become a sovereign nation in four easy steps:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2008/02/26/how-to-start-your-own-country-in-four-easy-steps/
So ... why cannot Palestine be recognized as a sovereign nation?
According to MK Shaked, Trump's coterie thinks Israel should declare sovereignty over the West Bank right now, and just get it over with:
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Shaked-Trump-officials-think-sovereignty-should-be-applied-immediately-616731
But wouldn't doing so go against the Atlantic Charter, one of the formative documents of the UN system and part of the rationale for why we fought the Nazis? Here are two relevant clauses from that document:
Second, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned;
Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them;
You can read the rest @
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/atlantic.asp
It seems to me that what is happening in Palestine is being accomplished via the law of the jungle / might makes right and NOT in accordance with the rule of law which was established in the wake of World War II. If in the final analysis the strong can merely sweep aside the rights of the weak, why did we even bother to fight that war?
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