What the 1922 Mandate did for Jew and Arab

What the 1922 Mandate did for Jew and Arab

The reduced mandated area for a Jewish homeland included the Gaza strip and the Golan Heights, plus Judea and Samaria, today's 'West Bank'.

According to the Mandate, the Jews could settle anywhere between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea (Fig. 3). To date, this is the last legally binding document regarding the West Bank and Gaza. The Mandate did not grant any national political rights to Arabs, but Article 2 did safeguard the civil and religious rights of all inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race or religion. Political rights to self-determination for Arabs were guaranteed by the League of Nations in four other mandates (for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan). The terms of the San Remo Treaty which allocated The Palestine Mandate only to the Jewish people and was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne.

International law expert Prof. Eugene V. Rostow (Undersecretary of State to Lyndon Johnson and Professor Emeritus at YaleLaw School) has stated:

 " ... the Mandate implicitly denies Arab claims to national political rights ... the mandated territory was in effect reserved to the Jewish people for their self-determination and political development ... ."

In regard to the Arab 'natural law' claim to certain areas in Palestine he adds that it is not customary in law that every group of people claiming to be a nation has the right to a state of its own.

What the 1922 Mandate did for Jew and Arab The reduced mandated area for a Jewish homeland included the Gaza strip and the Golan Heights, plus Judea and Samaria, today's 'West Bank'. According to the Mandate, the Jews could settle anywhere between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea (Fig. 3).

To date, this is the last legally binding document regarding the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza. The Mandate did not grant any national political rights to Arabs, but Article 2 did safeguard the civil and religious rights of all inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race or religion. Political rights to self-determination for Arabs were guaranteed by the League of

Nations in four other mandates (for Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Jordan).

International law expert Prof. Eugene V. Rostow (Undersecretary of State to Lyndon Johnson and Professor Emeritus at YaleLaw School) has stated: "

... the Mandate implicitly denies Arab claims to national political rights ... the mandated territory was in effect reserved to the Jewish people for their self-determination and political development ... ." In regard to the Arab 'natural law' claim to certain areas in Palestine he adds that it is not customary in law that every group of people claiming to be a nation has the right to a state of its own.

Once again, the Israeli government is acting in a manner which defies understanding. While vicious Arab murderers are released from prison, with more scheduled to follow, our most devoted Jews are harassed and targeted by the Israeli police, soldiers, and the courts. The community of Yitzhar, in the Shomron, is one that the AFSI Chizuk missions visit on a regular basis. We have become close friends with Ayelet and Akiva Ha Cohen, following their harrowing experiences with expulsion orders from their home and flour mill. B'ezrat HaShem, Akiva is no longer under house arrest or in prison for alerting his friends in the community that the army is on its way to destroy their homes. Now, Boaz Albert, a wine-maker in Yitzhar, who is about to harvest his grapes, has been ordered from his home. The family resisted the orders and Boaz and his brother were Tased and forcibly removed. The pain and suffering, along with the economic hardship to the family, is indescribable.

Please read the notice from Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katzover of Women in Green, along with the Arutz Sheva articles describing the situation. Then write to the Members of Knesset whose emails follow the message. They would be most sympathetic to the situation. Tell them it is unconscionable, immoral, unethical, and intolerable for good Jews, who love and work the land of Israel, to be targeted and removed from their homes without due process of law.

According to the League of Nations - Jews Can live anywhere in greater Israel as per map of 1922 resolution which was signed by all 51 members.

It is interesting to note, that Jordan is a country that never existed in history before WWI and nobody is contesting its legitimacy or territorial sovereignty and control.

The same powers that established 21 Arab States plus Jordan after WWI also re-established the State of Israel based on the Balfour Declaration and the San Remo Treaty of 1920. The terms of the San Remo Treaty which allocated The Palestine Mandate only to the Jewish people and was confirmed by the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and Lausanne.

On the other hand, Israel and its Jewish people have over 4,000 year of recorded history.

Many Nations and people are questioning Israel’s control of its liberated territory. No one is mentioning that the Arab countries had ejected about a million Jewish people

from their countries, Jews who have lived there for over 2,000 years and confiscated their assets, businesses, homes and land.

About 650,00 of these expelled Jewish people were resettled in Greater Israel.

The Real estate the Arab countries confiscated from the Jewish people 120,000 sq. km. or 46,000 sq. miles which is over 5-6 times the size of Israel, and its value today is in the trillions of dollars.

Let the 21 Arab countries resettle the Arab Palestinians in the land they confiscated from the Jews which is 5-6 times the size of Israel. Provide them with funds they confiscated from the million Jewish people they expelled and let them build an economy, This will benefit both the Arab-Palestinians and the hosting countries, The other alternative is relocate the Arab-Palestinians to Jordan, (originally land allocated for the Jewish people under the San Remo Treaty of 1920) which is already 80% Arab-Palestinians, and give them funds to relocate and build an economy. This will solve the Arab-Palestinians refugee problem once and for all. It will also reduce hostility and strife in the region.