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A brief history of Israel, set to the music of Andy Williams

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Buck11/16/2012 10:46:05 am PST

Not good at all.

The land in question was part of the Ottoman Empire and was lost in WW One.

The Allied Powers at the San Remo conference in 1922 returned the land to the Jewish People. This was voted on at the conference, at the Anglo-American Convention (1924) and at the League of Nations. The United Nations accepted this in full when they opened their door and replaced the League of Nations.

This land was not conquered through bloodshed by the Jews, it was defended with blood. This isn’t about God, or the bible. This is about international law and very recent history.

It was recognized in 1922 that the Jews were the indigenous people of the land. There a binding international commitment to the Jewish people, based on the “historical connection of the Jewish people to Palestine and the grounds for reconstituting their national home there,” a commitment which has never been revoked.

The Legal Title to Palestine was therefore transferred peacefully from the Allied Powers … to the Jewish people.

Britain was given a mandate to help with that transfer. Just like France was mandated to transfer the land we now call Lebanon to the people who reside there.