1. Text was translated into English by the U.N. See A/43/827, S/20278. [See text supra at 301. Ed.]. 2. Texts in Arabic and English were prepared and distributed by Jordan's Minis- try of Information (undated). [Excerpts are reproduced supra at 297. Ed.]. 3. 2 U.N. GAOR, at 131-32 (Nov. 16-29, 1947). [Excerpts are reproduced supra at 249. Ed.]. 4. Cattan, The Palestine Question, 77-79 (1988) [hereinafter "Cattan"]. 5. Text in Shbib, The All-Palestine Government - Introductions and Results, 1948- 1950, at 78-81 (in Arabic, 1988). [See English version of these documents supra at 294. Ed.]. 6. Id. at 54. 7. Cattan, at 115 and passim.

8. There are ten committees in the PNC: Political, Finance and Economic Affairs; Occupied Territories Affairs; Popular Organizations; Military; Infor- mation and Culture; Social; Refugees and the Camps; Education; and Legal.

9. The full text of the report of the Legal Committee was published in Proceed- ings of the 17th Session of the PNC Held in Amman on Nov. 22-28, 1984 at 135- 140 (in Arabic, PLO official publication, undated). 10. The report of the Legal Committee was published in Proceedings of the 18th Session of the PNC Held in Algiers on Apr. 20-25, 1987 at 137-141 (in Arabic, PLO official publication, undated).

11. Id. 12. For a legal analysis of the PLO status as an international public body, see Kassim, The Palestine Liberation Organization's Claim to Status: A Juridical Analysis under International Law, 9 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 1 (1980).

^* [See Special File on the Intifadah, supra at 85. Ed.]. 13. See supra note 2.

14. See, e.g., HCJ 620/85, Meari vs The Knesset Speaker et al, Piskei Din, vol. 41, part 4, at 222 - 227.

15. Mallison & Mallison, The Juridical Bases for Palestinian Self Determination, 1 Pal. Y.B. Int'l L. 36, at 48-51 (1984); Cattan, Palestine and International Law, 37 and passim (1973). 16. Text of the Israeli Declaration in 1 Laws of the State of Israel at 3 (1948) [hereinafter "LSI"].

17. On this point, see Cassese, Legal Considerations on the International Status of Jerusalem, 3 Pal. Y.B. Int'l L. 13, at 30-31 (1986). ^* For a discussion on this point, see supra at 265 and passim. Ed.

18. See General Assembly Resolution 273 of May 11, 1949, admitting Israel as a U.N. member. See, however, the Lausanne Protocol, signed a day later, which recorded Israel's rejection of the Partition boundaries, Third Progress Report of the Palestine Conciliation Commission, 4 U.N. GAOR, Ad Hoc Pol. Comm. Annex, vol. II, at 6, U.N. Doc. A/927 (1949). 19. With Egypt, Feb. 24, 1949, S/1254; with Lebanon, Mar. 23, 1949, S/1296; with Jordan, Apr. 3, 1949, S/1302; and with Syria, July 30, 1949, S/1353.

20. See State Education Law 1953, in 7 LSI, at 113. Article 2 provides that state education will be based on the values of Jewish culture, loyalty to the state and the Jewish people, and pioneering training. 21. See Sabri Jiryis, The Arabs in Israel (1976) at 207 14 and Elia Zureik, The Palestinians in Israel (1979) at 157 - 59.

^* See text supra at 304. Ed.

^* The text was read in English by Chairman Arafat on Dec. 14, 1988.

^* Weekly compilation of Presidential Documents of Dec. 19, 1988. ^** Press Release, 257, Dec. 14, 1988.