Summary
Israeli military lawyer, head (later Lieutenant Colonel) of the Israeli army’s International Law Branch, and the Israeli legal establishment’s principal respondent to Al-Haq’s early publications in Welchman’s account (Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, PDF p.68-69, p.75).
Details
- Haim Cohn paid particular tribute to Singer in the foreword to the Israeli section’s The Rule of Law in the Areas Administered by Israel (1981), a study mostly by lawyers doing reserve duty as legal advisers to the military commanders (PDF p.69).
- In 1983 Singer wrote to Raja Shehadeh and Jonathan Kuttab that for more than a year two bookstores had been selling copies of the military government orders to the public (PDF p.68).
- Singer (1982) published a lengthy article defending the civilian administration established by Military Order 947 and denying it had prospective political objectives, and forwarded it to Kuttab and Shehadeh (PDF p.75).
- Shehadeh’s 2008 reflection: twelve years later, when the Oslo Accords were drafted with Singer’s help, “the apartheid structure established in 1981 became more entrenched” (PDF p.75).
Related pages
Al-Haq: A Global History of the First Palestinian Human Rights Organization, Al-Haq, Haim Cohn, Raja Shehadeh