PALESTINE JUDICIARY
May 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Union has welcomed the confirmation by Palestinian president Yasser Arafat of a law guaranteeing the independence of his nascent state's judiciary. Brussels wants a reconstituted Palestinian authority to be more democratic and transparent than the government so comprehensively dislocated by Israel and has been imposing conditions on the Arafat administration for the resumption of full-scale EU aid, including the establishment of real judicial independence.This has been found wanting, even though the Palestinian Basic Law protects the ...
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