Defined territory. There must be a reasonably stable political community and this must be in control of a certain area.157 Thus according to Xxxxxxxx’x formulation, it is clear that some specific community must take certain actions in the first instance to organise itself as a state per se. The relatively ‘fixed’ char- acter is thus defined, more or less, by the existence of its population to which nationality can be given, and the state’s own territorial limits. Beyond that, the question turns more to the ongoing administration of that territory by the permanent population within the state. As will be seen, this is more of an open-ended question, as the requirements of international law with regard to cited Id., which held that citizens resident from the termination of the Palestine Mandate until the 1952 enactment of the Nationality Law were stateless. The judge in A.B. v. X.X. xxxxxx his views on Oppenheim (Lauterpacht) and Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, stated that “So long as no law has been enacted providing otherwise, my view is that every individual who, on the date of the establishment of the State of Israel was resident in the territory which today constitutes the State of Israel, is also a national of Israel. Any other view must lead to the absurd result of a State without nationals—a phenomenon the existence of which has not yet been observed.” 153 Cf. Case Concerning Acquisition of Polish Nationality, 1923 PCIJ, Ser. B, No. 7, at 15: “One of the first problems which presented itself in connection with the protection of […] minorities was that of prevent- ing […] States from refusing their nationality, on racial, religious or linguistic grounds to certain catego- ries of persons, in spite of the link which effectively attached them to the territory allocated to one or the other […] States.” Poland ultimately would cease to participate in the League’s minority protection sys- tem, after the Permanent Court concluded that its minority rights obligations were integrated into its own independence and sovereignty. See Declaration of Polish Delegate Beck to the League Assembly, League of Nations OJ, Spec.Supp. 122 at 42 (1934). 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, supra note 89, at 42. 155 Id. at 64. 156 X. Xxxx, The Western Sahara Case, 49 BYIL 119, 137 (1978). 157 X. Xxxxxxxx, Principles of Public International Law 67 (1966). the governance of a territory, and with regard to the actual independence of that territory, are vague. Again, the ‘community’ element is reflected in Xxxxxxxx’x formulation:
