caa a22 4500 388053909 CHVBK 20180307125100.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021223700015673 doi S0021223700015673 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021223700015673 Becker Tal Self-Determination in Perspective: Palestinian Claims to Statehood and the Relativity of the Right to Self-Determination [Elektronische Daten] [Tal Becker] "Self-determination” is not a mere phrase. It is an imperative principle of action, which statesmen will henceforth ignore at their peril. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, 11 February 1918, reprinted in R.S. Baker and W.E. Dodd, eds., War and Peace, Presidential Messages, Addresses and Public Papers, vol. 1 (1927) 182. The phrase is simply loaded with dynamite. It will raise hopes which can never be realized. It will, I fear, cost thousands of lives. In the end it is bound to be discredited, to be called the dream of an idealist who failed to realize its danger until too late to check those who attempt to put the principle in force. What a calamity that the phrase was ever uttered. What misery it will cause! Robert Lansing, U.S. Secretary of State, 30 December 1918, reprinted in Robert Lansing, The Peace Negotiations — A Personal Narrative (1921) 97. Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1998 Israel Law Review Cambridge University Press 32/2(1998), 301-354 0021-2237 32:2<301 1998 32 ISR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223700015673 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223700015673 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Becker Tal NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Israel Law Review Cambridge University Press 32/2(1998), 301-354 0021-2237 32:2<301 1998 32 ISR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge