1 Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, Sept. 13, 1993, 7 Palestine Y.B. lnt'1 L. 232 (1992/94) (entered into force Oct. 13, 1993) (hereinafter "Declaration of Princi- ples"). The Declaration of Principles was signed by "the Government of the State of Israel and the P.L.O. team (in the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation to the Middle East Peace Conference)" on Sep- tember 13, 1993 in Washington, D.C. 2 Declaration of Principles, supra note 1, at 233, Article V, Section 3. Section 3 states that "these nego- tiations shall cover remaining issues, including: Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, security arrange- ments, borders, relations and cooperation with other neighbors, and other issues of common interest."

3 See the interesting discussion on the concept of "Sovereignty" in 88 Am. J. Int'l L. Soc'y Proc. 1-87 (1994).

4 Amirav and Siniora, Jerusalem: Resolving the Unresolvable, in Israeli-Palestinian Roundtable Forum on the Future of Jerusalem (Winter 1991/92), published by the IsraeUPalestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI). Moshe Amirav was, at the time, a member of the Jerusalem City Council and head of the committee for equalizing services to East Jerusalem. He is currently a busi- nessman in Jerusalem. Hanna Siniora was, at the time, Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem daily news- paper Al-Fajr. He is currently Publisher of the weekly newspaper The Jerusalem Times and Chair- man of the European Palestinian Chamber of Commerce.

5 G.A. Res. 181, U.N. Doc. A/64, at 131 (1947). Resolution 181, in pertinent part, states that "the City of Jerusalem shall be established as a corpus separatum under a special international regime and shall be administered by the United Nations. The Trusteeship Council shall be designated to discharge the responsibilities of the Administering Authority on behalf of the United Nations." Id. at 146.

6 See, for example, Cassese, Legal Consideration of the International Status of Jerusalem, 3 Palestine Y.B. Int'l L. 13, 36-37 (1986), and note 75; Lustick, Has Israel Annexed East Jerusalem?, Middle East Pol'y, Jan. 1997, at 34. 7 When Iraq declared on August 8, 1990 that Kuwait would be comprehensively and eternally merged with Iraq, the UN Security Council adopted its resolution no. 662 of August 9, 1990 in which the Council "[d]ecide[d] that annexation of Kuwait by Iraq under any form and whatever pretext has no legal validity, and is considered null and void;" 8 For example, see Security Council resolutions 242, of Nov. 22, 1967; 252 of May 21, 1968; 267 of July 3, 1969; 298 of September 25, 1971; 694 of May 24, 1991. 9 For example, see General Assembly resolutions 2253 of July 4, 1967; 2254 of July 14, 1967; 34/90 B & C 34/90 of December 12, 1979. For the latest resolutions, see infra at 265, 266 Ed.

10 U.N. SCOR, 22d Session, 1382d meeting at 8, U.N. Doc. S/INF. 22/Rev. 2 (1967). ^* On the legal status and characteristics of the Western Wall, see infra at 375 Ed..

I1 I Baskin, ed., Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, New Thinking on the Future of Jerusalem; A Model for the Future of Jerusalem: Scattered Sovereignty (1994).

12 Rabin and Clinton News Conference in Jerusalem, BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, Oct. 29, 1994, available in LEXIS, NEXIS Library, CURNWS File (reporting news conference of U.S. Presi- dent Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the Jerusalem International Conven- tion Center in Jerusalem).

13 Jansen, East Jerusalem's Rising Confidence, Middle East Int'l, Feb. 2, 1996, at 5. 14 Findley, Mr. President, Mr. Palestine, Wash. Rep. on Middle East Affairs, December 1995, at 8, 87. See Daly, Hundreds at Harvard Cheer Arafat's Talk, Wash. Post, Oct. 25, 1995, at A23. 15 Baram, Contradictions, Middle East Int'l, Nov. 7, 1997, at 11. The vote was 197-102.