FACT CHECK · MANDATE AND LAW
Claim: Israel inherited the Mandate borders
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
The legal case: uti possidetis juris, a new state keeps the borders it was administered in. Bell and Kontorovich apply it to Israel: the Mandate lines of May 1948. Contested, but published law.
SOURCE
Bell & Kontorovich, Arizona Law Review 58 (2016)
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