Israel has just reached her 70th birthday. Today we are 100 years after the Balfour Declaration, 98 years after the San Remo Conference, 70 years after the re-establishment of the Jewish State of Israel. Yet, there are many who question Jewish rights to the Land.
Jewish rights to the land of Israel can be viewed through a number of lens:
Jewish rights to the land of Israel can be viewed through a number of lens:
- Indigenous rights – the people who are indigenous to the land have the rights to the land
- Historical / biblical rights – religious documentation and tradition backed up by archaeological findings spell out ancient rights to the land
- Legal rights – international law and the precedents set by said law dictate legal rights
Other, often overlooked, methods of determining rights to land are conquest (wars won, land paid for in blood) and custodianship (caring for, nurturing, and developing the land). Each aspect can be answered, but it is necessary to have the historical knowledge to do so.
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Why You Should Know San Remo
By Dan Adler
There is a misconception that the Balfour Declaration was just a letter of intent, and not a binding legal document. The reason for this misconception is that most people are not aware of the San Remo Conference, which took place on April 19, 1920, lasted for seven days, and published its resolutions on April 25, 1920. These seven days laid the political foundation for the creation of the 22Arab League States and the one and only Jewish State of Israel.
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In April 1920, the San Remo Conference laid the political foundation for the creation of the 22 Arab League States and the one and only Jewish State of Israel. The full text of the Balfour Declaration became an integral part of the San Remo resolution and the British Mandate for Palestine, thereby transforming it from a letter of intent into a legally-binding foundational document under international law.
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The "Israeli-Palestinian" conflict is absolutely a conflict between an oppressed people fighting every day for the freedom to live in their ancestral and indigenous homeland against settlers and occupiers – but not in the way international media would have you believe.
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A Jewish Right to a Jewish Land
By Rabbi Lazer Gurkow
Had the UN given us California, we would not have gone. Had the Jewish people defeated the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, they would not have claimed that land. Jews would only leave their homes and businesses for the Holy Land, given us by God. The land whose loss we never stopped mourning and for whose shores, we never stopped yearning. No other land would do.
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Legal Rights and Title of Sovereignty of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel and Palestine under International Law
By Howard Grief
Howard Grief explains the legal rights and title of sovereignty of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and Palestine under international law.
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We are not Jews because our religion is Judaism.
We are Jews because our people come from Judea.
We are Jews because our people come from Judea.
Face it - No Arab-Palestinian state west of the Jordan River
ReplyDeleteIf you read the 1917 Balfour Declaration (Which emulated Napoleons 1799 letter to the Jewish community in Palestine promising that The National Home for The Jewish people will be reestablished in Palestine, as the Jews are the rightful owners). Nowhere does it state an Arab entity west of The Jordan River.
The San Remo Conference of April 1920 which incorporated The Balfour Declaration into International Law with no boundary restrictions it does not state an Arab entity west of The Jordan River, confirmed by Article 95 in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres which was signed by all the Allied Powers and the Treaty of Lausanne.
The Mandate for Palestine terms does not state an Arab entity west of the Jordan River. It specifically states a Jewish National Home in Palestine without limiting or restricting the Jewish territory in Palestine. It also states that the British should work with the Jewish Agency as the official representative of the Jews in Palestine to implement the National Home of the Jewish people in Palestine. I stress again; nowhere does it state that an Arab entity should be implemented west of the Jordan River.
As a matter of historical record, The British reallocated illegally over 77% of Jewish Palestine to the Arab-Palestinians in 1922 with specific borders and Jordan took over additional territory like the Gulf of Aqaba which was not part of the allocation to Jordan.
The United Nations resolutions are non binding with no legal standing it does not create an Arab Palestinian state and it has no authority to change the April 1920 San Remo treaty or modify the terms of the Mandate for Palestine which has the force of international law in perpetuity.
No where in any of the above stated agreements does it provides for an Arab entity west of the Jordan River. The U.N. and General Assembly resolutions are non-binding with no legal standing, same applies to the ICJ. The Oslo Accords are null and void as state by Mahmmoud Abbas at the U.N.
Israel must disband the Arab-PA and take back full control and sovereignty of all the territory west of the Jordan River – All of Judea and Samaria without delay. Time for talk is over. Now is the time for action to restore our Jewish sovereignty in all the Land of Israel and stop terror and violence.
It is time to relocate the Arabs in Israel to Jordan and to the homes and the over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish land the Arab countries confiscated from the over a million Jewish families that they terrorized and expelled and those expelled Jews were resettled in Israel. They can use the trillions of dollars in reparations for the Jewish assets to finance the relocation of the Arabs and help set-up an economy and industry instead of living on the world charity. The Arab countries were allocated over 13 million sq. km. (6 million sq. miles) with a wealth of oil reserves.
YJ Draiman
P.S. Possession is nine tenths of the law – Israel has it.
Political Rights in Palestine aka The Land of Israel were granted only and exclusively to the Jews in all of Palestine and the right to settle in all of Palestine with no exclusions.
The Jewish people’s war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal.
Plus we are easy to find now.