FRANCIS BOYLE, Professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law and author of “Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law,” Boyle said today: “This can be the start of a ‘Legal Intifadah’ by Palestine against Israel:
 

1. “Palestine can join the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court and file a Complaint with the ICC against the illegal settlements and settlers, who are committing war crimes;

 
2. “Palestine can join the Statute for the International Court of Justice, sue Israel at the World Court, and break the illegal siege of Gaza;

 
3. “Palestine can join the Law of the Sea Convention and get its fair share of the enormous gas fields lying off the coast of Gaza, thus becoming economically self-sufficient;

 
4. “Palestine can become a High Contracting Party to the Four Geneva Conventions [this deals with the laws of war];

 
5. “Palestine can join the International Civil Aviation Organization and gain sovereign, legal control over its own airspace;

 
6. “Palestine can join the International Telecommunications Union and gain sovereign legal control over its own airwaves, phone lines, bandwidths.”

 
Boyle was also legal advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization and Chairman Yasser Arafat on the Palestinian Declaration of Independence of Nov. 15, 1988, as well as to the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace negotiations and its chair, Dr. Haidar Abdul Shaffi, from 1991 to 1993.

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