ABSTRACT
With the signing of the historic agreement between Israel and the PLO in September 1993, most attention was drawn to the international, symbolic, and security aspects of Israel's willingness to recognize the PLO as a legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and to allow the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. From a legal perspective, attention was drawn to the emergence of a new legal entity and to the way in which that would affect the Palestinian residents and Israeli settlers in the territories occupied by Israel since 1967. Israeli legislation concerning affairs within the ‘Green Line’ (the pre-1967 borders) was regarded as unaffected by the agreement. It will be maintained here, however, that a major consequence of the agreements between Israel and both the Palestinians and Jordan is the emergence of significant international constraints on the drafting of internal Israeli legislation, which will permanently affect the nature of internal Israeli law.
