After WWI The Allied Powers Divided the Ottoman Land into 22 States
(21 Arab States and 1 Jewish State)
Israel for the past almost 2,000 years, since the destruction of Jewish Temple and sovereignty and the expulsion of most of its indigenous people, it remained an occupied and colonized outpost in the territory of many global and regional empires.
The re-establishment of the Jewish State. What needs to be appreciated is that Fifty-One member countries — the entire League of Nations — unanimously declared onJuly 24, 1922 ,
“Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish
people and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that
country”. In other words, as Winston Churchill informed in June, 1922, “It is
essential that it [the Jewish people] should know that it is in Palestine
as of right and not on sufferance”. This response to the Arab assertion that
they are being penalized for the Holocaust sins of others [Germans, Poles etc.]
extends well beyond rhetoric.
It is equally important to point out that political rights to self-determination as a polity for Arabs, was guaranteed by the sameLeague
of Nations in four other mandates — in Lebanon
and Syria [The
French Mandate], Iraq ,
and later Trans-Jordan [The British Mandate].
A summary of the key points issued at the conclusion of the commemoration follows:
Reaffirming the importance of the San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920 — which included the Balfour declaration in its entirety — in shaping the map of the modern Middle East, as agreed upon by the Supreme Council of the principal Allied Powers [Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States acting as an observer], and later approved unanimously by the League of nations; the resolution remains irrevocable, legally binding and valid to this day.
Emphasizing that the San Remo Resolution of 1920 recognized the exclusive national Jewish rights to theLand of
Israel Palestine .
Recalling that such a seminal event as the San Remo Conference of 1920 has been forgotten or ignored by the community of nations, and that the rights it conferred upon the Jewish people have been unlawfully dismissed, curtailed and denied.
Asserting that a just and lasting peace, leading to the acceptance of secure and recognized borders between all States in the region, can only be achieved by recognizing the long established rights of the Jewish people under international law.
The outcome of the San Remo declaration gave birth to the “Mandate for Palestine”, an historical League of Nations document that laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, 10,000 square miles, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Any attempt to negate the Jewish people’s right to Palestine-Eretz Israel, and to deny them access and control over the area designated for the Jewish people by the League of Nations is a serious infringement of international law.
Dr. Jacques Gauthier,[Note 2] a practicing international lawyer and scholar was one of many significant participants in the 90th anniversary conference. He is the author of “Whose Jerusalem is it? Exploring Sovereignty Claims to anAncient
City Jerusalem and the writing of the
given dissertation of some 1300 pages with 3000 footnotes. He had to present
his thesis to a panel of two leading international lawyers and one world famous
Jewish historian. The reason for so many footnotes was to enable him to defend
his thesis from intense attack by one of the lawyers who happened to be a
Jewish anti-Zionist and who had represented the PA on numerous occasions.
Gauthier is not Jewish. Although the work of Dr. Gauthier is focused on Jerusalem ,
much of what it contains is applicable to all of the Land
of Israel
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 started the whole process but it didn’t create international legal rights.
TheSan Remo decision made on 25 April 1920 , incorporated the
Balfour Declaration of 1917[2] and Article 22 of the Covenant of the League
of Nations . It was the basic decision upon which the Mandate for Palestine
was constructed. While the decision made at San Remo
created the Palestine Mandate de facto, the mandate document signed by Great
Britain as the Mandatory and the League
of Nations made it de jure. It thus became a binding treaty in
international law.
The High Contracting Parties agree to entrust, by application of the provisions of Article 22, the administration ofPalestine ,
within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, to
a Mandatory, to be selected by the said Powers. The Mandatory will be
responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November
8, 1917, by the British Government, and adopted by the other Allied Powers, in
favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish
people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may
prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in
Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other
country.
He pointed out that the Arabs weren’t even mentioned but that civil and religious rights only were accorded other inhabitants . This thereby excludes political rights.
Article 22 of the Covenant of theLeague of Nations
provides for the creation of mandates.
To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.
The legal significance here is that “the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization”. The Mandatory Power was the trustee of that trust.
The Palestine Mandate of theLeague of Nations , included
the following significant recital,
“Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people withPalestine and to
the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country;
This had never happened before in history.Palestine
was to be held for the Jewish people wherever they lived. No such recognition
had ever been according to anyone else, anywhere, ever.
ART. 2. The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants ofPalestine ,
irrespective of race and religion.
Thus the operative clause specifically referred to the preamble and reiterated that there were no political rights for other inhabitants.
ART. 5. The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that noPalestine
territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control
of the Government of any foreign Power.
ART. 6. The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.
The United Nations took over from the failedLeague of Nations
in 1945 and its Charter included
Article: 80 .. nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively be parties.
Thus the Palestine Mandate continued without change.
In 1947, the General Assembly of the UN passed Res 181 which became known as the Partition Plan pursuant to which both Jews and Arabs could announce their state.
(21 Arab States and 1 Jewish State)
Israel for the past almost 2,000 years, since the destruction of Jewish Temple and sovereignty and the expulsion of most of its indigenous people, it remained an occupied and colonized outpost in the territory of many global and regional empires.
The re-establishment of the Jewish State. What needs to be appreciated is that Fifty-One member countries — the entire League of Nations — unanimously declared on
It is equally important to point out that political rights to self-determination as a polity for Arabs, was guaranteed by the same
A summary of the key points issued at the conclusion of the commemoration follows:
Reaffirming the importance of the San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920 — which included the Balfour declaration in its entirety — in shaping the map of the modern Middle East, as agreed upon by the Supreme Council of the principal Allied Powers [Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States acting as an observer], and later approved unanimously by the League of nations; the resolution remains irrevocable, legally binding and valid to this day.
Emphasizing that the San Remo Resolution of 1920 recognized the exclusive national Jewish rights to the
Recalling that such a seminal event as the San Remo Conference of 1920 has been forgotten or ignored by the community of nations, and that the rights it conferred upon the Jewish people have been unlawfully dismissed, curtailed and denied.
Asserting that a just and lasting peace, leading to the acceptance of secure and recognized borders between all States in the region, can only be achieved by recognizing the long established rights of the Jewish people under international law.
The outcome of the San Remo declaration gave birth to the “Mandate for Palestine”, an historical League of Nations document that laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, 10,000 square miles, the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Any attempt to negate the Jewish people’s right to Palestine-Eretz Israel, and to deny them access and control over the area designated for the Jewish people by the League of Nations is a serious infringement of international law.
Dr. Jacques Gauthier,[Note 2] a practicing international lawyer and scholar was one of many significant participants in the 90th anniversary conference. He is the author of “Whose Jerusalem is it? Exploring Sovereignty Claims to an
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 started the whole process but it didn’t create international legal rights.
The
The High Contracting Parties agree to entrust, by application of the provisions of Article 22, the administration of
He pointed out that the Arabs weren’t even mentioned but that civil and religious rights only were accorded other inhabitants . This thereby excludes political rights.
Article 22 of the Covenant of the
To those colonies and territories which as a consequence of the late war have ceased to be under the sovereignty of the States which formerly governed them and which are inhabited by peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world, there should be applied the principle that the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization and that securities for the performance of this trust should be embodied in this Covenant.
The legal significance here is that “the well-being and development of such peoples form a sacred trust of civilization”. The Mandatory Power was the trustee of that trust.
The Palestine Mandate of the
“Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with
This had never happened before in history.
ART. 2. The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of
Thus the operative clause specifically referred to the preamble and reiterated that there were no political rights for other inhabitants.
ART. 5. The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no
ART. 6. The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.
The United Nations took over from the failed
Article: 80 .. nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively be parties.
Thus the Palestine Mandate continued without change.
In 1947, the General Assembly of the UN passed Res 181 which became known as the Partition Plan pursuant to which both Jews and Arabs could announce their state.
First it must be noted that the Charter of the UN
specifically gave no power to the General Assembly because that would infringe
on the sovereign power of individual members. So the GA could recommend only.
Secondly, this recommendation was in violation of the terms of the Mandate. See
Art 5 above.
This resolution also provided for a Special Regime forJerusalem
which had the following defined boundaries,
A. SPECIAL REGIME. The City ofJerusalem
shall be established as a corpus separatum under a special international regime
and shall be administered by the United Nations. The Trusteeship Council shall
be designated to discharge the responsibilities of the Administering Authority
on behalf of the United Nations.
B. BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY. The City of Jerusalem shall include the present municipality of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns, the most eastern of which shall be Abu Dis; the most southern, Bethlehem; the most western, ‘Ein Karim (including also the built-up area of Motsa); and the most northern Shu’fat, as indicated on the attached sketch-map (annex B).
But this regime was to be limited in time. It was not to be an “international city” for all time as we have been lead to believe.
The Statute elaborated by the Trusteeship Council
The aforementioned principles shall come into force not later than1 October 1948 . It shall remain in
force in the first instance for a period of ten years, unless the Trusteeship
Council finds it necessary to undertake a re-examination of these provisions at
an earlier date. After the expiration of this period the whole scheme shall be
subject to examination by the Trusteeship Council in the light of experience
acquired with its functioning. The residents the City shall be then free to
express by means of a referendum their wishes as to possible modifications of
regime of the City.
This provision for a referendum was of critical importance to the acceptance of Res 181 by Ben Gurion. He knew that the Jews were in a majority within these boundaries and would be in 10 years when the referendum was to be held. Thus he was confident thatJerusalem would
return to Jewish hands.
One should realize that the disposition of this area was to be determined not byIsrael but
by the residents of Jerusalem so
defined. Currently the Jews have a 2:1 majority there.
Needless to say that after the Armistice Agreement of ’49, the Jordanians, who were in control ofJerusalem
violated every provision of this resolution which among other things, specified
respect for holy places. The referendum never took place.
After the ’67 war in whichIsrael
regained the land to the Jordan
including Jerusalem , Res 242 of the
Security Council was passed authorizing Israel
to remain in possession of all the land until they had “secure and recognized
boundaries”. It did not require Israel
to withdraw from all of the territories and it was silent on Jerusalem .
This resolution also provided for a Special Regime for
A. SPECIAL REGIME. The City of
B. BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY. The City of Jerusalem shall include the present municipality of Jerusalem plus the surrounding villages and towns, the most eastern of which shall be Abu Dis; the most southern, Bethlehem; the most western, ‘Ein Karim (including also the built-up area of Motsa); and the most northern Shu’fat, as indicated on the attached sketch-map (annex B).
But this regime was to be limited in time. It was not to be an “international city” for all time as we have been lead to believe.
The Statute elaborated by the Trusteeship Council
The aforementioned principles shall come into force not later than
This provision for a referendum was of critical importance to the acceptance of Res 181 by Ben Gurion. He knew that the Jews were in a majority within these boundaries and would be in 10 years when the referendum was to be held. Thus he was confident that
One should realize that the disposition of this area was to be determined not by
Needless to say that after the Armistice Agreement of ’49, the Jordanians, who were in control of
After the ’67 war in which
It is time to evict all Arabs who create violence, riot and
attack Jews.
A Jewish person and any other person inJerusalem
and the rest of Greater Israel has the right to live and walk in his own
country in peace and tranquility without fear or intimidation.
I suggest a massive demonstration by Israelis, demanding the government to restore peace without fear or intimidation at all costs. Ignore world opinion and the Media, they will criticize and defameIsrael
no matter what.
Eventually the world at large respects a government that protects its people.
According to International Law All Jews have the right to live in any area of the original 1920 Mandate forPalestine
and its adoption in perpetuity by the League of Nations .
A Jewish person and any other person in
I suggest a massive demonstration by Israelis, demanding the government to restore peace without fear or intimidation at all costs. Ignore world opinion and the Media, they will criticize and defame
Eventually the world at large respects a government that protects its people.
According to International Law All Jews have the right to live in any area of the original 1920 Mandate for
It is interesting to note that the World at large is not questioning
the State of Jordan and its territory, which was taken from the allocation to
Jewish land. Jordan
a State that has never existed in history prior to WW1. But Israel
that has existed on its land for over 3500 years which included The land Jordan
occupies, they are questioning Israel ’s
land. They do not mention that The Arabs ejected a million Jewish people and
confiscated their homes and assets and that about 600,000 of them were settled
in Israel ’s
LIBERATED TERRITORY.
Arabs are the occupiers, they have 21 Arab States that were
granted to them after WW1 by the same powers that granted the State of Israel.
There is no other term for Jewish villages and towns inJudea
and Samaria and East
Jerusalem than Liberated
Territories
There is no other term for Jewish villages and towns in
To negate any claim of Arab ownership of the land, Read and
study the Ottoman empire land title. It states that
approximately 88% of the land was owned by the government, some of it was
leased to the Arab population as sharecroppers, not owners.
The balance 12% was owned by Arab land barons who sold the land at premium prices to the Jews. as shown in this invaluable webpage on the topic.
The balance 12% was owned by Arab land barons who sold the land at premium prices to the Jews. as shown in this invaluable webpage on the topic.
Here is the incredible testimony of The Mufti of Jerusalem
on January 12, 1937 when he documents in testimony for the British Peel
Commission that the Jews did not steal land from the Arab Palestinians but by
the year of 1920, the time of the “Occupation” meaning the British Palestine
Mandate, the Jewish people had already purchased 1,500,000 dunams of land in
the Land of Israel which is 375,000 acres.
The Mufti also testified that the land was not bought by “forcibly acquired-compulsory acquisition of land”. That kind of ruling behavior was the action of the Ottoman rulers and not the Jews. Also the Mufti admitted that any evictions done were by absentee landlords who chose to sell “land over the heads of their tenants, who then were forcibly evicted”, and that the majority of these tenants were not Palestinians but Lebanese.
The Mufti also testified that the land was not bought by “forcibly acquired-compulsory acquisition of land”. That kind of ruling behavior was the action of the Ottoman rulers and not the Jews. Also the Mufti admitted that any evictions done were by absentee landlords who chose to sell “land over the heads of their tenants, who then were forcibly evicted”, and that the majority of these tenants were not Palestinians but Lebanese.
It is a common practice by the Muslims to obfuscate,
distort, outright fabrication and misrepresent facts to their benefit, it is
even permitted under their religion, in order to accomplish their goals.
The only way to respond to consistent terror is by utilizing
security forces with no restrictions whatsoever, with no letup, The Hague and
Geneva convention do not apply to terrorists and their supporters, The
terrorists armed insurrection and attacking innocent civilians, those rules
apply only to military confrontation with a legitimate state and government.
The security forces must be authorized to use lethal force and termination of
the terrorists with extreme prejudice.
One of the most fundamental responsibilities of any
legitimate government is to safeguard the safety and security of its people.
But, this is not what’s happening in Israel .
When mass rioting and violence break out, containing it might be okay as a
first step but it clearly will not get to the root cause of the problem. In
order for that to happen it will require a coordinated effort between local,
regional, and national security agencies with no restrictions in applying its
apparatus, and those responsible for causing the anarchy must be made to
account for their actions in whatever way that is commensurate with their level
of involvement. I do find it disturbing that the Israeli government is so
disengaged with this problem. It is time to ignore world opinion and defend The
people of Israel
with extreme prejudice. I hope more decisive and aggressive action is taken so
the people of Israel
can live their lives in peace without fear and I hope the Israeli government
will implement these actions immediately and make this happen.
Those politicians whom are “calling for” drastic steps, and
not TAKING drastic steps now, should be all be fired! No self respecting nation
would tolerate these atrocities on their citizens.
Revoking citizenship and confiscating assets should apply to
terrorists their accomplices and those who commit violence and stone throwing.
It is time to evict all Arab
who create violence, riot and attack Jews.
A Jewish person and any other person inJerusalem
I suggest a massive demonstration by Israelis, demanding the government to restore peace without fear or intimidation at all costs. Ignore world opinion and the Media, they will criticize and defameIsrael
Eventually the world at large respects a government that protects its people.
According to International Law All Jews have the right to live in any area of the original 1920 Mandate forPalestine League of Nations .
A Jewish person and any other person in
I suggest a massive demonstration by Israelis, demanding the government to restore peace without fear or intimidation at all costs. Ignore world opinion and the Media, they will criticize and defame
Eventually the world at large respects a government that protects its people.
According to International Law All Jews have the right to live in any area of the original 1920 Mandate for
It is interesting to note
that the World at large is not questioning the State of Jordan and its
territory, which was taken from the allocation to Jewish land. Jordan Israel Jordan Israel Israel
Arabs are the occupiers, they
have 21 Arab States that were granted to them after WW1 by the same powers that
granted the State of Israel.
There is no other term for Jewish villages and towns inJudea
and Samaria East
Jerusalem than Liberated Territories
There is no other term for Jewish villages and towns in
To negate any claim of Arab
ownership of the land, Read and study the Ottoman empire land title. It states that approximately 98% of the
land was owned by the government, some of it was leased to the Arab population
as sharecroppers, not owners.
The balance 2% was owned by Arab land barons who sold the land at premium prices to the Jews.
The balance 2% was owned by Arab land barons who sold the land at premium prices to the Jews.
Here is the incredible
testimony of The Mufti of Jerusalem on January 12, 1937 when he documents in
testimony for the British Peel Commission that the Jews did not steal land from
the Arab Palestinians but by the year of 1920, the time of the “Occupation”
meaning the British Palestine Mandate, the Jewish people had already purchased
1,500,000 dunams of land in the Land of Israel which is 375,000 acres.
The Mufti also testified that the land was not bought by “forcibly acquired-compulsory acquisition of land”. That kind of ruling behavior was the action of the Ottoman rulers and not the Jews. Also the Mufti admitted that any evictions done were by absentee landlords who chose to sell “land over the heads of their tenants, who then were forcibly evicted”, and that the majority of these tenants were not Palestinians but Lebanese.
The Mufti also testified that the land was not bought by “forcibly acquired-compulsory acquisition of land”. That kind of ruling behavior was the action of the Ottoman rulers and not the Jews. Also the Mufti admitted that any evictions done were by absentee landlords who chose to sell “land over the heads of their tenants, who then were forcibly evicted”, and that the majority of these tenants were not Palestinians but Lebanese.
It is a common practice by
the Muslims to obfuscate, distort, outright fabrication and misrepresent facts
to their benefit, it is even permitted under their religion, in order to
accomplish their goals.
The Palestinian Arabs are the occupiers of Jewish land by YJ
Draiman
The Palestinian Arabs are the occupiers of Jewish land. Tell the world at large that they are delusional in thinking that Arabs belong inIsrael .
There are 21 Arab countries where the Arab Palestinians came from originally –
There will never be an Arab/Palestinian State together or adjacent to Eretz Israel .
There has never been such a nation as the Palestinian/Arab People. The
Arab/Moslem Koran specifically states in The Qur’an 17:104 – states the land
belongs to the Jewish people If the historic documents, comments written by
eyewitnesses and declarations by the most authoritative Arab scholars are still
not enough, let us quote the most important source for Muslim Arabs: “And
thereafter we [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: ‘Dwell securely in the
Promised Land. And when the last warning will come to pass, we will gather you together
in a mingled crowd’.”. Any sincere Muslim must recognize the Land they call “Palestine ”
as the Jewish Homeland, according to the book considered by Muslims to be the
most sacred word and Allah’s ultimate revelation. Any building of housing in
The Greater Israel is the right and duty of the Israeli government. There is no
such a thing as occupied territory, it is liberated Jewish territories. It is
the land of Israel
A true peace in theMiddle East will be an economic
phenomenon that the world has never seen. But this can only be accomplished
when there is a real peace. The Arabs must stop preaching and teaching hate.
Any liberal Israeli that is delusional about Arab intention and wants to give
any land in Israel
to the Arabs should leave Israel ;
he does not belong in Israel .
YJ Draiman
The Palestinian Arabs are the occupiers of Jewish land. Tell the world at large that they are delusional in thinking that Arabs belong in
A true peace in the
YJ Draiman
Here is some information that you need to know about the
Arab/Palestinians.
There never has been, there is not now and there never will be a country called “Palestine .”
The Arab/Palestinians/Moslems squatting on Jewish land in and aroundIsrael
are overwhelmingly either descendants of invaders, illegal immigrants or
trespassers.
The term “Palestinian” was popularized after the Six Day War in ’67 in an attempt to delegitimizeIsrael .
There are already 21 Arab/Moslem dominated countries spread out over a few millions square miles of territory, including most ofJordan
which was part of the Jewish allocated land under the League of
Nations in 1922. It also stated that the Jewish people are to set
up their own government and none other. The Arabs also ejected close to a
million Jewish people from their countries and confiscated their homes and
assets, about a third of the Jewish people died while leaving the Arab
countries.
The Arab/Moslems are not interested in creating a 22nd Arab controlled country.
Their only desire is to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.
“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel “Dwell securely in the land (of … (Holy Quran 17:104).
(Surah Al-Ma’ida, verse 21), and the other (Surah Al-Shara’a, verse 59) says that the land was bequeathed to the Jews.
Under International Law and Treaties – An Arab/Palestinian State cannot be established inIsrael
on Jewish land allocated to the Jewish people under the San
Remo agreement of 1922 and ratified by the League
of Nations and signed by 51 member states.
There never has been, there is not now and there never will be a country called “
The Arab/Palestinians/Moslems squatting on Jewish land in and around
The term “Palestinian” was popularized after the Six Day War in ’67 in an attempt to delegitimize
There are already 21 Arab/Moslem dominated countries spread out over a few millions square miles of territory, including most of
The Arab/Moslems are not interested in creating a 22nd Arab controlled country.
Their only desire is to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.
“And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel “Dwell securely in the land (of … (Holy Quran 17:104).
(Surah Al-Ma’ida, verse 21), and the other (Surah Al-Shara’a, verse 59) says that the land was bequeathed to the Jews.
Under International Law and Treaties – An Arab/Palestinian State cannot be established in
The failure to correctly argue against the false claim of
‘occupied’ has led to enormous damage being done to Israel .
The word ‘occupied’ by itself tells a story that is very negative to Israel .
It is a story that we have been trying to counter by the use of many words in
long winded explanations, when and where the situation allows, and most people
can’t be bothered to listen.
The Arabs understand the power of the word ‘occupied’ as witnessed by their immediate massive and unified response to the Australian Government’s announcement that they would not use the word ‘occupied’ because it was prejudicial when negotiations are ongoing.
I believe that it is not too late to succinctly argue the correct situation by using the word ‘liberated’ i.e. ‘liberatedEast Jerusalem ’,
and ‘liberated Territories’. These areas were not ‘occupied’ by Israel
in 1967, Israel
liberated them from Jordanian occupation. Jordan
occupied these areas when it launched an unprovoked war against Israel
on the day of its birth in 1948.
After more than four decades of propaganda stating the opposite, the correct version of the situation needs some explanation, and so a quick review of the history is in order.
On the14 May 1948 with Britain ’s
Mandate over Palestine about to end
at midnight , the Jews of Palestine
declared that Israel
would come into existence at one minute past midnight .
Remember that Britain
had been entrusted by the League of Nations to
administer the Mandate which was for the purpose of “the establishment in Palestine
of a national home for the Jewish people”. The terms of the Mandate were never
altered by the League of Nations nor by the United
Nations after it assumed the responsibilities of the League of
Nations . When Britain
ended its administration of the Mandate and the Jews announced the subsequent
formation of a Jewish State, the purpose of the Mandate was fulfilled.
SurroundingPalestine , were four
Arab States with established borders. At dawn on 15 May, just hours after Israel
came into existence, all the neighboring Arab States’ armies crossed their
respective borders and launched unprovoked attacks on the new-born State. The
Jordanian army crossed its border and occupied large parts of the newly created
Israel
including East Jerusalem . The fledgling Israel
was not strong enough to expel the invaders and in 1949 armistice agreements
were signed halting the ongoing fighting.
The expiry of the Mandate and the creation ofIsrael
did not impact the borders of any neighbor, their borders did not change. When Jordan
invaded Israel
in an unprovoked attack at dawn on the 15th May, they captured and occupied
territory that was not theirs. To whom did the territory belong? They belonged
to the only State that existed beyond their borders at that time, Israel .
Nearly a year after its unprovoked attack and invasion, an Armistice agreement
with Jordan was
reached. The cease fire lines were designated as the Armistice Demarcation
Lines in the Armistice Agreement. “The basic purpose of the Armistice
Demarcation Lines is to delineate the lines beyond which the armed forces of the
respective Parties shall not move.” (Article IV(2) of the Agreement).
The territoryJordan
conquered remained under Jordanian control until 1967 when it again launched an
unprovoked attack on Israel .
This time however Israel
was not only strong enough to repel the attack but it was strong enough to
expel the Jordanians from all the territory they had previously conquered and
thus Israel was
able to liberate all the previously occupied territories including East
Jerusalem .
These territories thatIsrael
liberated from Jordanian occupation in 1967 are what the Arab nations, and
after four and a half decades of propaganda, the whole world, calls ‘occupied
territories’. They are in fact liberated territories.
East Jerusalem was not ‘occupied’ by Israel
in 1967 any more than Paris was
‘occupied’ by the French and the allies in the 2nd world war. Both Paris
and Jerusalem were liberated from
enemy occupation. Israel
liberated East Jerusalem from Jordanian occupation in
the same way the allies liberated Paris
from German occupation. Israel
was not in control of East Jerusalem prior to 1967
because Jordan
launched an unprovoked attack on Israel
(with the stated aim of wiping Israel
off the map) and at that stage was stronger than Israel .
‘Liberated’ is another story in a word, and it is the story of what actually happened, not a lie.
When in 1967Israel
ejected the Jordanians from the territories they had occupied for 19 years,
both it and its supporters failed to continually refer to the newly liberated
territories as ‘liberated’. This has aided the Arabs in setting the narrative
agenda.
I suggest therefore that where appropriate whenever the words East Jerusalem and ‘Territories’ are used, we should use the adjective ‘liberated’ to describe them. With the use of this one little word, hopefully we can retell the story of what happened as it really happened. We can help correct the lies and deceptions of the false narrative.
We are trying to correct the record more than four and a half decades late, after more than four and a half decades of propaganda, but perhaps if enough people use the word ‘liberate’ often enough it will somewhat neutralize the current narrative. It is only a little thing but let us hope it is not too little too late.
The Arabs understand the power of the word ‘occupied’ as witnessed by their immediate massive and unified response to the Australian Government’s announcement that they would not use the word ‘occupied’ because it was prejudicial when negotiations are ongoing.
I believe that it is not too late to succinctly argue the correct situation by using the word ‘liberated’ i.e. ‘liberated
After more than four decades of propaganda stating the opposite, the correct version of the situation needs some explanation, and so a quick review of the history is in order.
On the
Surrounding
The expiry of the Mandate and the creation of
The territory
These territories that
‘Liberated’ is another story in a word, and it is the story of what actually happened, not a lie.
When in 1967
I suggest therefore that where appropriate whenever the words East Jerusalem and ‘Territories’ are used, we should use the adjective ‘liberated’ to describe them. With the use of this one little word, hopefully we can retell the story of what happened as it really happened. We can help correct the lies and deceptions of the false narrative.
We are trying to correct the record more than four and a half decades late, after more than four and a half decades of propaganda, but perhaps if enough people use the word ‘liberate’ often enough it will somewhat neutralize the current narrative. It is only a little thing but let us hope it is not too little too late.
Wallace Edward Brand, JD Harvard, 1957
I have reached the same conclusion.
SSRN.com/abstract=2385304 I think the reason most of the world believes
otherwise is due to two factors. The lawyer for the leftist labor government,
Meron, came to the legal conclusion that the occupation of the territories was
a “belligerent occupation”. First, under international law it is not a
belligerent occupation because it did not displace a legitimate sovereign. See
4th Hague Convention Article 43. And what was intended to be proscribed was the
state deportation or transfer of people, not their individual decisions for
economic, patriotic or religious reasons to settle in Judea
or Samaria . The motivation of the
settlement was their individual decision The second reason is that the UN
“Special Unit” published and widely circulated a bogus legal opinion the
settlements were illegal. It was grounded on UN General Assembly resolutions
that have no legislative effect unless they are agreed to by all parties in
dispute. The Partition Resolution, Resolution 181 of 1947 died at birth when
the Arabs rejected it. So there was no basis for a legal opinion that the
Jewish settlements were illegal because they were outside the territory the UN
General Assembly recommended for Jewish settlement in Resolution 181 that had
died at birth. Second, there was not basis for the finding that the Jews could
not build in the Jerusalem area
that was in Resolution 181 to be a corpus separatum ruled, at least initially,
by the UN. Finally the notion that any group calling itself a “people” could
empower the UN to redraw the boundaries of a sovereign state were very
farfetched. Inviolability of state boundaries had been the mainstay of the new
world order established after the Peace of Westphalia, almost 400 years ago.
SSRN.com/abstract=2404738
Wallace Edward Brand, JD Harvard, 1957
The political rights to Palestine
west of the Jordan River are owned by the Jewish People
under International Law as well as under Canon law. See
SSRN.com/abstract=2385304 The competing claim of the Arab People made at the
Paris Peace Talks in 1919 was rejected in 1920 at San Remo. Nor do they have
any rights as the “Palestinian Arab People” as 1. Their people hood was the
invention of the KGB in 1964 when the PLO charter was drafted in Moscow ,
and 2. Even if they were a genuine rather than an invented people, under
International Law, the right of a “people” to self-determination is subordinate
to the right of a sovereign state under International Law to territorial
integrity. See Part II of the foregoing legal opinion archived at SSRN. The US
has taken that position recently with regard to the Crimea
and the Eastern Ukraine .
a yid
The Arabs are occupying our sacred land: the temple mount,
the cave of the patriarchs and other places. they destroyed Joseph's tomb in the
city of Sh'chem (the original name,
not the Arabized roman of “Nablus ”
ne naples ).
stop the occupation of ancient sacred Jewish land by the Arabs!
stop the Islamic occupation of israel1
stop the jihadi conquest of sacred ancient Jewish lands in Israel !
read “the phantom nation” (or video) by Shai Ben-tekoa. read
“from time immemorial” by Joan Peters. read the torah of Hashem (hel-loooo?!)
and understand who are the true indigenous people of the land. the Jews! the
people of Israel !
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