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Missing Reversioner
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/ Victor Kattan The US-Israel Standoff over Settlements discussion re disputed vs occupied, covers rejection of the "missing reversioner thesis"

http://law.du.edu/documents/djilp/38No1/Bisharat-Final.pdf GEORGE E. BISHARAT, Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law; Lead Author ISRAEL’S INVASION OF GAZA IN INTERNATIONAL LAW "Israel maintained that, because it had not displaced a recognized sovereign state in taking control of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, these territories were “administered” by Israel, but not “occupied” within the meaning of international law.(cited to Yehuda Blums missing reversioner) Israel’s position was rejected by most authorities, and in time, its status as an occupying power was confirmed by the International Court of Justice, the Oslo Accords, the Israeli Supreme Court, the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, and the U.S. State Department."

http://jcsl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2007/08/21/jcsl.krm009.extract The Israeli Military Court System In The West Bank And Gaza - hits on "missing reversioner"

http://books.google.com/books?id=iu5iRm3OcNQC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=%22missing+reversioner%22&source=bl&ots=PYx9psKp5x&sig=xi168KIFlZGPbPA38IpMSywdua0&hl=en&ei=W6kaTaG3M4nsrAeghMH8Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22missing%20reversioner%22&f=false

The law of occupation: continuity and change of international humanitarian ... By Yutaka Arai Characterized as "a controversial theory"

http://www.soas.ac.uk/lawpeacemideast/publications/file60534.pdf Iain Scobbie with Sarah Hibbin. Has a chapter on the missing reversioner Page 103: The  missing  reversioner  argument  is  unconvincing,  and was rejected by  the  International Court  in  the Legal consequences of the construction of a wall advisory  opinion. It  ruled  that  the Convention  applies  to  any  armed  conflict  between  High Contracting Parties, and that it was irrelevant whether territory occupied during that conflict was under the sovereignty of one or other of the combatants. This interpretation was based on textual exegesis, the drafting history of Geneva Convention IV, the practice of  parties  to  the  Convention,  the  views  of  the  International Committee  of  the  Red  Cross,  General  Assembly  and  Security Council, and also that of the Israel Supreme Court.311 This was a unanimous finding by the Court, as the sole dissenting judge, Judge Buergenthal, expressly concurred in this ruling.312 This conclusion had  also  been  foreshadowed  in  a  14  September  1967 memorandum  of  the  then  legal  advisor  to  the  Israeli  Foreign Ministry,  Theodor  Meron,  which  noted  that  the  international community had rejected Israel’s claim that the territories were not occupied

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4045484 The Conference of High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention Paywall

http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/israel3&div=26&id=&page= 3 Isr. L. Rev. 279 (1968) Missing Reversioner: Reflections on the Status of Judea and Samaria, The; Blum, Yehuda Z

http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&handle=hein.journals/hilj32&div=8&id=&page= 32 Harv. Int'l. L. J. 129 (1991) Relevance of International Law to Palestinian Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: In Legal Defense of the Intifada, The ; Falk, Richard A. ; Weston, Burns H. Text: http://duncankennedy.net/documents/Is-Pal/Second-Syllabus/Falk%20and%20Weston,%20The%20Relevance%20of%20International%20Law%20to%20Palestinian%20Rights.pdf

Refers to the missing reversioner thesis on page 138 : A. The Alleged Inapplicability of Geneva IV Also deals with a variety of other arguments forwarded by Eugene Rostow and Allan Gerson

Summarizing: 'These and similar arguments are in our view strained and artificial and have commanded little to no respect among "highly qualified publicists" or within the organized international community'. professor Blums's "missing reversioner" thesis, in addition to requiring a method of treaty interpretation unknown to international law(i.e., a disregard of the expressed purposes and cognate negotiating history of Geneva IV) is premised on the wrong provision of Geneva IV, and in any event is unsupported by authority or practice" on page 140