by Eli E. Hertz
91 years has
passed since the birth of the “Mandate for Palestine,” an historical
League of Nations document, that laid down the Jewish legal right to
settle anywhere in western Palestine, the area between the Jordan River
and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international
law.
The
“Mandate for Palestine” was not a naive vision briefly embraced by the
international community. Fifty-one member countries—the entire League of
Nations—unanimously declared on July 24, 1922:
“Whereas
recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish
people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their
national home in that country.”
It
is important to point out that political rights to self-determination
as a polity for Arabs, were guaranteed by the same League of Nations in
four other mandates—in Lebanon and Syria [The French Mandate], Iraq, and
later Trans-Jordan [The British Mandate].
Any attempt to negate the Jewish people’s right to Palestine—Eretz-Israel,
and to deny them access and control in the area designated for the
Jewish people by the League of Nations is a serious infringement of
international law.
Continuous pressure from the “Quartet” [U.S., the European Union, the UN and Russia] to surrender parts of Eretz-Israel are
contrary to international law that firmly calls to “encourage … close
settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands
not required for public purposes.” It also requires the Mandatory for
“seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in
any way placed under the control of the government of any foreign
power.”
In
their attempt to establish peace between the Jewish state and its Arab
neighbors, the nations of the world should remember who the lawful
sovereign nation is with its rights anchored in international law and
valid to this day: The Jewish Nation.
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Eli E. Hertz
Source: http://www.mythsandfacts.org/Conflict/mandate_for_palestine/MandateN2%20-%2010-29-07-English.pdf
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