WHY PALESTINE?

 


At the conclusion of WWI, a conference was held in 1920 at San Remo that determined the precise boundaries for territories captured by the Allies. The attendees were the Principal Allied Powers, with The United States as a neutral observer. Great Britain was given the mandate for the establishment, in Palestine, of a national home for the Jewish people. “Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish People with Palestine and grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”

The Arabs received equivalent national rights in all the remaining parts of the Middle East – over 96% of the total area formerly governed by the Ottoman Turks.

A year later, Winston Churchill cut off 75 percent of the territory of British Palestine area officially recognized as a Jewish national home, - which he named “Transjordan - and  gave it to the Hashemite dynasty from Arabi. Current-day Israel is only a quarter the size of the original Land of Israel as mandated in San Remo. 

                                                                        


                                                        

In reality, the San Remo Resolution and the ensuing clauses of the Mandate for Palestine, are just like a treaty entered into, and executed - by each and every one of the 52 member states of the League of Nations. This was in addition to the United States, which is bound by a separate treaty with Great Britain, ratified in 1925.

So next time you hear about the “occupation of the West Bank” (Judea and Samaria) and its supposedly “illegal settlements” -- an almost daily occurrence in the discourse of the Palestinian Arabs and their supporters -- you should remember that this territory, as the rest of Israel, was lawfully restored to the Jewish people in 1920.

                                                                           



Its legal title has been internationally guaranteed and never revoked ever since. Any negotiation toward achieving a lasting peace should be based on this premise. San Remo marked the end of the longest colonization period in history.

After 1,850 years of foreign occupation, oppression and banishment by a succession of foreign powers (Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Arabs, Crusaders, Mameluks and Ottoman Turks), the Nation of Israel was reborn in April 1920 - paving the way for the proclamation of the State of Israel 28 years later.

 

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