Britain’s betrayal of the sacred trust in Palestine,
T. Belman. Read this carefully. The author believes that the sacred trust involved self -determination of the Arabs. He offers very little to back it up.
There may have been talk about an Arab state but in no legal document, San Remo or the Mandate, was there any mention of it.
By Prof John Dugard, THE BALFOUR PROJECT July 8/13
British policy towards Palestine for the past 100 years has been informed by two narratives, two visions. The first is the vision of a Jewish state in Palestine, captured in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The second is the vision of a democratic independent state in Palestine where human, political and religious freedoms were to prevail. This vision is captured in the “sacred trust” for Palestine accepted by Britain in 1920 in the [League of Nations] Mandate for Palestine.
As the International Court of Justice has stressed, the concept of sacred trust must be interpreted as requiring effect to be given to the principle of self-determination leading to independence.





