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8 Cardozo Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 885 (2025)
Don't Let History Repeat Itself: What the Western Sahara Conflict Can Learn from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

handle is hein.journals/icpelr8 and id is 889 raw text is: DON'T LET HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF: WHAT THE WESTERN SAHARA CONFLICT CAN LEARN FROM THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT Jack Berroug* I. INTRODUCTION ...................................................................... 886 II. HISTORY OF THE WESTERN SAHARA CONFLICT AND THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT........................................... 888 A. Historical Populations and Demographics of Both Conflicts......................................................................... 891 1. Historic Populations in Morocco.............................. 891 a. The Sherifian Society and its Ties to the Future Country of Morocco ........................................... 891 b. Bilad Shinguitti and Its Connections to the Future Country of Mauritania........................................ 893 2. Historic Populations in Palestine.............................. 895 B. Emergence of the Political Conflicts ............................. 898 1. The History of Palestine During the Zionist Movement and Before the Creation of Israel..............................898 2. Spanish Colonization of Western Sahara and How its Demise Led to the Western Sahara Conflict ....... 900 III. THE INTERVENTION OF THE U.N. AND THE APPLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE WESTERN SAHARA CONFLICT AND THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT.................................... 902 A. U.N. Involvement in Palestine from 1947 to Today...... 903 B. History of U.N.'s Role in Western Sahara..................... 906 C. Weighing Sahrawi Right to Self-Determination in Western Sahara v. Morocco's Right to Territorial Integrity ..... 911 * J.D. Candidate, 2025, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Thank you to my faculty advisor, Professor Andrea Schneider, for her numerous rounds of editing and feedback. She has helped this Note get across the finish line, and I could not have done it without her. I would also like to thank the editors and the Executive Board of the Cardozo International and Comparative Law Review for dealing with multiple drafts of my Note and getting it into its final version. 885