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people would have Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) at its heartland.
You will also note
that the protection of non-Jewish communities
in the then Mandate of Palestine has been adhered to by the State of Israel. Non-Jewish Israelis have
all the rights of their fellow Jewish citizens. In contrast, the Jewish communities
of other Middle Eastern nations were not given the same treatment. Up to a million Jews were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries in the Middle East following the creation of the State of Israel, a breach of this international treaty. Most of the Jewish people living in Israel today fled from Arab countries due to persecution.
The Palestine Mandate
San Remo was the bridge between the Balfour Declaration and The Palestine Mandate adopted by the League of Nations in 1922.The Palestine Mandate was an international treaty that ratified the powers given to Britain over Palestine (Article 1).
Britain was commissioned to “secure the establishment of the Jewish national home” in Palestine (Article 2).
Article 6 of the Palestine Mandate clearly states that Britain “shall facilitate Jewish immigration... and shall encourage... close settlement by Jews, on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.”
The Palestine Mandate of 1922 is the legal basis for Jewish immigration into the Land of Israel. Furthermore, it is also the legal basis for Jewish settlement in the land.
Like the San Remo Resolution of 1920, this document never defined any borders. However, there is an understanding of the geographic boundaries of the two states they hoped to
create in the Mandate for Palestine.
Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate states
“In the territories lying between the Jordan (River) and the eastern boundary of Palestine... the Mandatory shall be entitled, with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of this mandate...”
What this means is that Britain had the authority to stop Jewish settlement activities only in the area east of the Jordan River.
To clarify, the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) is called such because it is the area on the western banks of the Jordan River. East of the Jordan River was Transjordan. The intention from this statement clearly showed a desire in the Mandate for Palestine to divide the land between “Arab Palestine” (77%) and “Jewish Palestine” (23%).
Therefore, the legal authority for Jewish settlement anywhere west of the Jordan River is established in this document. And again,
it documents the intended land area for the Jewish homeland as voiced by Lloyd George at San Remo.
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