OP-ED: The Palestinians don’t deserve a state of their own

Hymie Rubenstein writes, "This gratuitous move is best seen as a transparent political ploy to gain support from Canadians hostile to the existence of Israel."

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By Hymie Rubenstein

The legal prerequisites for statehood, commonly known as the Montevideo criteria, are the widely recognised principles used to determine whether an entity qualifies as a state under international law. These criteria are derived from the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, adopted in 1933.…