b'shem Y'shua
Posted on 01/18/2007 8:32:41 AM PST by Thywillnotmine
The legally binding Mandate for Palestine document was conferred on April 24 1920, at the San Remo Conference and its terms outlined in the Treaty of Sevres on August 10 1920. The Mandate’s terms were finalized by the Council of the League of Nations on July 24 1922, and became operational in 1923.
This historical League of Nations document, laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, a 10,000 square mile area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law and valid to this day.1
The creation of an Arab state in eastern Palestine (today Jordan) on 77 percent of the land mass of the original Mandate for Jews, in no way changed the status of Jews west of the Jordan River and their right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
These documents are the last legally binding documents regarding the status of what is commonly called “the West Bank and Gaza.”
Political Rights Were Granted to Jews Only
The Mandate for Palestine clearly differentiates between political rights – referring to Jewish self-determination as an emerging polity – and civil and religious rights, referring to guarantees of equal personal freedoms to non-Jewish residents as individuals and within select communities. Not once are Arabs as a people mentioned in the Mandate for Palestine. At no point in the entire document is there any granting of political rights to non-Jewish entities (i.e., Arabs) because political rights to self-determination as a polity for Arabs were guaranteed in three other parallel Class “A” mandates – in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
Jewish Rights to Palestine were internationally guaranteed.
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Anybody got Jimmah (peanut-sized brain) Cawtah's e-mail so we can forward the link to him?
b'shem Y'shua
"the Arab claim that an indigenous Arab population was displaced by Jewish immigrants"
In 1948, there were approx. 500,000 Arabs living in the area mandated to the Jewish people, and about 90,000 Jews. At that point, the Arabs had the choice of remaining in a state without political rights, or applying for entry into a newly-mandated Arab nation. If I'm not mistaken, the refugee camps comprise precisely that: refugees who made a choice not to remain, and who took a gamble that they would be taken in by their Arab brothers and sisters, which they were not. Instead, the 'host' countries 'maintain' the camps rather than integrating the people into their (Arab) population.
Have you read Joan's book?
The last population survey by the Brits in 1947 estimated 1.1 million Arabs and about 650,000 Jews in the entire mandate area. The area allocated to Israel by the UN was majority Jewish. I'm not sure anyone has a good handle on population, since Jewish immigration was booming.
If I'm not mistaken, the refugee camps comprise precisely that: refugees who made a choice not to remain, and who took a gamble that they would be taken in by their Arab brothers and sisters...
They also expected to follow victorious Arab armies back, where they could take their Jewish neighbors homes and proberty, the deceased Jews no longer needing them. Didn't work out that way.
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Right you are. My numbers are from 1914.
No, but it clearly centers on an important issue. I guess one of the questions has to be the relationship between 'rule of law' and -- I don't know the term for it -- natural occurrence? Something has to have a 'trump' in these situations, and I would suggest that 'law' is it. The Mandate for Palestine was drawn up in 1920 and became operational in 1923, and yet the State of Israel was not declared until 1948, and only then after some serious terrorist activity on the part of Menachem Begin and Moyshe Dayan. Both Jewish and Arab immigration clearly boomed during the intervening years, as I gather is Joan's argument.
What is interesting about Joan's book is that she was very close friend of Yasser Arafatb'shem Y'shua
and she admits starting the book expecting it to support Arafat's position.
I've noticed that leftists tend to dismiss Joan Peters' book by simply claiming, "it's been disproven" but never explaining exactly how.
When pressed, they will insist that "Norman Finklestein" or "Noam Chomsky" allegedly "disproved" Joan's book, but never give any citations. It is enough for them to invoke the names of those two anti-Semitic nutcakes as some kind of "proof."
Amen , Sisterb'shem Y'shua
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