tailieunhanh - Linking the Gaza Strip with the West Bank: Implications of a Palestinian Corridor Across Israel

The socialist fiscal system was implicit in the vertical structure of planning and prices. In the Soviet Union, virtually all investment activity was channeled through the budget. The primary nominal sources of tax revenue were enterprise profits and resource rents, turnover taxes charged on the difference between retail prices of consumer goods and their nominal enterprise cost, and profits of a foreign trade monopoly. Loans from the central bank provided the treasury with an additional, inflationary source of spending, even though administrative pricing transformed this inflation into chronic shortages. In pre-reform China, too, savings were centralized in. | Linking the Gaza Strip with the West Dank Implications of a Palestinian Corridor Across Israel Justus Reid Weiner and Diane Morrison The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Y v ni TOi 1D J JÚ n rwn n ĩDìnn Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation 2007 Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs 13 Tel Hai Street Jerusalem Israel 92107 Tel. 972-2-561-9281 Fax. 972-2-561-9112 Email ISBN 965-218-058-0 Production Coordinator Edna Weinstock-Gabay Graphic Design Rami Jacky Efrat Lenka Maps Rami Jacky Photos AP Photo Government Press Office Back cover photo IDF Spokesman Acknowledgments The authors wish to thank their colleagues Deborah Norris and Marie E. Yetsin for their assistance. The authors appreciate the advice and assistance of Daniel Taub Adv. Table of Contents Executive Summary 5 Introduction 9 I. The Doctrine of Statehood 11 A. The Traditional Criteria for Statehood as Enunciated by the Montevideo Convention of 1933 1 1 1. Criterion i A Permanent Population 12 2. Criterion ii A Defined Territory 12 3. Criterion iii Government 13 4. Criterion iv Capacity to Enter into Relations with Other States 14 5. Independence 16 B. Additional Criteria for Statehood 16 C. Additional Criteria for Statehood Suggested as a Result of Modern Developments in International Law 17 1. The Rule of Legality 18 2. Self-Determination and Statehood 18 3. Statehood as a Claim of Right 19 D. Recognition and Statehood 19 E. The Criterion of A Defined Territory Reconsidered 20 II. Safe Passage 21 A. Origins of Safe Passage 21 B. Terms Defined 25 1. Territorial Contiguity 25 2. Territorial Continuity 25 3. Territorial Connectivity 26 C. Variable Recent Usage of Terms by Prominent Political Leaders and Diplomats 26 D. Suggestions for the Implementation of Safe Passage 27 E. Questions of Safe Passage 32 1. Sovereignty 32 2. Control of Crossing Points 35 page