In suggesting, for example, that the 1917 Balfour Declaration (a unilateral commitment by the British government to support Zionist aims of creating a "Jewish national home" in Palestine) may have been legally binding, the author never articulates how such an agreement, concerning territory controlled at the time by neither of the parties, could bind anyone other than the parties to the agreement themselves. Were I, the reviewer, to promise to give you, the reader, Professor Watson's home or car, perhaps I might incur actionable legal obligations to you, but one suspects the unknowing (or protesting) Professor Watson might not be so bound.