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with such post-war territories as at San Remo), as a “sacred trust its dissolution in 1946, the
those emerging out of the defeated of civilization”. Neither the San international legal provisions of all
Ottoman Empire, Palestine being Remo Resolution nor the Mandate League Mandates were explicitly
one. for Palestine – both international protected under Article 80 of the
treaties – has ever been amended Charter of the newly established
Territorial Boundaries of or abrogated; therefore both still United Nations. In this capacity,
the Mandate for Palestine stand as valid international legal the UN General Assembly in
The Zionist claim submitted at Paris, instruments with the full force of 1947 passed Resolution 181,
acknowledged in principle at San treaty law. recommending the termination of
Remo, clearly included territory the Mandate but providing for its
on the east bank of the River UN Partition Resolution replacement by a Jewish and an
Jordan that had historically been 181 Arab State.
inhabited by ancient Israeli tribes. The League of Nations proved
Between the San Remo Conference largely ineffective, and with Nonetheless, as Resolution 181
in April 1920 and the League of represented the first official
Nations approval of the Mandate proposal for a Jewish ‘State’, the
in July 1922, however, Churchill Zionists accepted the Resolution.
– through the introduction of a The Arabs did not, desiring rather
new Article 25 into the Mandate– the whole of the territory and
arranged to ‘officially’ grant that responding almost immediately
land to Transjordan. Churchill with an armed attack against
thereupon immediately and publicly the Jewish population. Thus the
reconfirmed that all territory west Partition Resolution became a
of the Jordan would be reserved ‘dead letter’; only a mutually agreed
expressly for the Jewish national treaty based on the Resolution
home. would have had legal force. In
any case, this Resolution also
The Council of the League of recommended making Jerusalem
Nations, whose 51 Member States a corpus separatum under a UN-
represented the international administered “special international
community at the time, consented regime”. Such a separation of
to Article 25 and approved the Jerusalem from the proposed
Palestine Mandate unanimously on Jewish State would have been
24 July 1922, officially entrusting a breach of the Mandate and
it to Great Britain (as determined therefore of international law.

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