ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 provides an assessment of the challenges, issues, and problems for Palestine in its acceptance as a State in multilateral frameworks. The challenges of Palestine’s limited statehood can be shown within three parallels: (1) Palestine’s imbalanced participation (advantages and disadvantages) compared to a formal State; (2) the difficulties that Palestine faces as a result of the occupation over its claimed territory in terms of the implementation of the treaties’ provisions; and (3) the challenges to the peace process in the Middle East; how accessions and admissions amplify, rather than reduce, the whole confrontation with Israel.
