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The San Remo Resolution was passed on 25th April 1920 and was an international treaty.
Despite their shared legal founding, it is only the Jewish State whose very existence is called into question and it is only Britain’s role in giving part of its mandate for Palestine to the Jews which is questioned, not their role in creating Arab states.
Focusing on San Remo concerning the British Mandate for Palestine, the resolution concluded the following:
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The boundaries of the Mandate would be determined later by Allied Powers
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The implementation of the Balfour Declaration (the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people)
The protection of civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine (Muslims, Christians, Druze etc)
The protection of rights and political status of Jews in other countries
During the San Remo Conference, the British representative to the conference was none other than the leader of the country himself, Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
During the meeting, Lloyd George specified the Jewish homeland as being established “from Dan to Beersheva” (see map). This indicates that the leader of Britain, who had complete authority over the land, viewed the area being given for a Jewish homeland as including the entirety of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank). Meanwhile, Winston Churchill in 1920 wrote passionately about a Jewish homeland “by the banks of the Jordan a Jewish State under the protection of the British Crown.”
Whilst no clear borders were defined at San Remo, it is clear that the British, including the man with all authority over the area, had clearly understood that the area given to the Jewish