Peloni: These are Jewish lands, settled by the Jews in antiquity, and the Jewish presence has been maintained here til the British led Arab land grab took place in 1948. Our indigenous right to these lands is documented in ancient texts, archaeological evidence and has been acknowledged by the international community during the San Remo Conference. Furthermore, the depiction of our history sewn across these lands is described in the Bible, the most published text in the world. We Jews, alone, have any right to these lands, and we will not be parted from them for reasons of security, ancestry, and legality, take your pick. It is well past time for Israel to address the error made in 1967 as described by Fitzgerald below, by extending sovereignty over these lands, to develop them, and rule them under the rule of Israeli law, thus eliminating the last vestige of the notion that the term ‘West Bank’ was anything more than a fable sold as Arab propaganda in a continued effort to erase the Jewish entity, even as this nullifying term has been nearly universal in its adoption throughout the West.
By Hugh Fitzgerald | Feb 22, 2025
In 1919, the mandates system was established by Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. This was a way to put European powers in temporary control of various territories that had once been part of the now-defunct Ottoman Empire, that had been on the losing side in World War I. Those holders of the Mandates, Great Britain and France, were entrusted with bringing the people in the various mandates to self-rule. The Arabs in the mandates of Iraq and Lebanon-Syria would in time become three independent Arab states. The League also created a single mandate for the Jewish people, the Palestine Mandate, that under British control would be made ready to become the first independent Jewish state, in the historic homeland of the Jews, in more than two millennia.
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