About the Authors

M. CherifBassiouni is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University and is President Emeritus of its International Human Rights Law Institute. He served as counsel to President Sadat in connection with the 1978 Camp David Accords.

Shlomo Ben Ami is Vice-President of the Toledo International Centre for Peace. He is a former Israeli foreign minister (2000-2001) who headed the Israeli delegation at the 1993 multilateral talks on refugees, participated at the Camp David summit (July 2000), and led the Israeli team at the Taba peace negotiations with the Palestinians (January 2001).

Both have been active in the Arab-Israeli peace process for many years which has brought them together in producing this book.

⁵⁰ The French also expanded their influence in North Africa, establishing a pro­

⁷⁴ See The “Final Solution.” Nazi Extermination of European Jewry, in Palestine and the

⁷⁵ The government of Prime Minister Barak agreed to the concept of family reuni­fication already in the secret negotiations which Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami led with Pal­estinian Chief Negotiator Abu-Ala in the spring of 2000 in Sweden.. But, the proposal could not be seen by the Palestinians as a recognition by Israel of the principle of the

⁸² Hague Convention 1907 (IV), 36 Stat. 2277 (entered into force Jan. 26, 1910). Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Fourth Geneva Convention), Aug. 12, 1949, 6 U.S.T. 3516, 75 U.N.T.S. 287. There

⁸⁷ In 1996, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) was established and, on Jan­

⁸⁸ Israel and the United States had formed a hard-line position against Arafat after

³²⁶ See International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, opened for signature Dec. 16, 1966, art. 13, 999 U.N.T.S. 171 (entered into force Mar. 23, 1976) [hereinafter ICCPR]. See also First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and

⁴⁰⁹ Israel and the United States had formed a hard-line position against Arafat