According to International law and agreements Palestine - Israel is
Jewish Land and Extensive research establishes the following
facts.
If you read the 1917 Balfour Declaration (Which emulated Napoleons 1799 letter to the Jewish community in Palestine promising that The National Home for The Jewish people will be re-established in Palestine - Israel, as the Jews are the rightful owners). Nowhere does it state an Arab entity west of The Jordan River. The San Remo Conference of April 1920 does not state an Arab entity west of The Jordan River. It was confirmed in Article 95 of the Treaty of Sevres on August 1920. The Mandate for
As a matter of historical record, The British reallocated over 77% of Jewish Palestine to the Arab-Palestinians in 1922 with specific borders and
No where in any of the above stated agreements does it provides for an Arab entity west of the
The
Oslo Accords are no longer valid. The Arab Palestinians stated that they will not abide by them as if they ever abided by them since day one; They violated them since day one, again and again.
YJ Draiman
YJ Draiman
P.S.
As Professor Stephen Schwebel, former judge on the Hague 's International Court of Justice notes:
The Arab-Palestinian claim to sovereignty over eastJerusalem under the principle of self-determination of peoples cannot
supersede the Jewish right to self-determination in Jerusalem . While Arabs constituted an ethnic majority only in the
artificial entity of "East Jerusalem " created by Jordan 's illegal division of the city, the armistice lines forming
this artificial entity were never intended to determine the borders of, or
political sovereignty over, the city. Moreover, Jews constituted the majority
ethnic group in unified Jerusalem both in the century before Jordan 's invasion, and since 1967 (the exception being during Jordan 's illegal occupation).
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, an international legal expert, scholar and director emeritus of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at theUniversity of Cambridge , details the legal justification for Israel 's sovereignty in east Jerusalem . According to the scholar, "Jordan's occupation of the Old
City–and indeed of the whole of the area west of the Jordan river entirely
lacked legal justification" and was simply a "de facto occupation
protected by the Armistice Agreement." This occupation ended as a result
of "legitimate measures" of self defense by Israel , thereby opening the way for Israel as "a lawful occupant" to fill a sovereignty vacuum
left by Britain 's withdrawal from the territory in 1948.
furthermore:
A state acting in lawful exercise of its right of self-defense may seize and occupy foreign territory as long as such seizure and occupation are necessary to its self-defense......Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense has, against that prior holder, better title.
As Schwebel explains, "Jordan 's seizure [in 1948] and subsequent annexation of the West Bank and the old city of Jerusalem were unlawful," arising as they did from an aggressive
act. Jordan therefore had no valid title to east Jerusalem . When Jordanian forces attacked Jerusalem in 1967, Israeli forces, acting in self defense, repelled
Jordanian forces from territory Jordan was illegitimately occupying. Schwebel maintains that in
comparison to Jordan , "Israeli title in old (east) Jerusalem is superior." And in comparison to the UN, which never
asserted sovereignty over Jerusalem and allowed its recommendation of a corpus separatum to lapse
and die, he sees Israel 's claim to Jerusalem as similarly superior.
The Arab-Palestinian claim to sovereignty over east
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht, an international legal expert, scholar and director emeritus of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the
furthermore:
A state acting in lawful exercise of its right of self-defense may seize and occupy foreign territory as long as such seizure and occupation are necessary to its self-defense......Where the prior holder of territory had seized that territory unlawfully, the state which subsequently takes that territory in the lawful exercise of self-defense has, against that prior holder, better title.
As Schwebel explains, "
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