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“historic title” of the Jewish people
in respect of Palestine remain
the Covenant of the League of
Nations of 28 April 1919 (Art.
22), the San Remo Resolution of
25 April 1920, and the Mandate
for Palestine of 24 July 1922.
And despite the fulfillment in May
1948 of one of the Mandate’s
© IDF Spokesperson’s Unit fundamental objectives – namely,
the “reconstituting” of the Jewish
State of Israel and its “Israel gained full national home as ultimately a
Adversaries “self-governing” political entity, i.e.

Pursuant to the failure of UN control over her legally a sovereign state – the Mandate’s
Resolution 181, Britain announced mandated territory” relevant provisions remain valid and
to the United Nations that it would legally binding under international
be terminating its role as Mandatory law to this day.
Power, and accordingly, on 14 May Pakistan – not even by the Arab
1948, evacuated the territory. League itself. Nonetheless, it was
The same day, David Ben-Gurion nearly twenty years before Israel Abstracted from C.D. Wallace, Israel in the Crosshairs:
declared the State of Israel, to take gained full control over her legally Legitimacy under Fire (The Hague Initiative for
International Co-operation (thinc.), forthcoming, 2020).
effect at midnight. mandated territory, in a legitimate <www.DrCDWallace.com>
war of self-defence (the 1967
The following day, the armies of “Six-Day War”), again involving her
five surrounding Arab nations surrounding Arab neighbours. Israel
attacked the new Jewish State prevailed decisively, at last enabling
(the “Arab-Israeli War”). The Arabs the Jewish State to exercise full
met defeat, though Jordan illegally sovereignty over those parts of her About The Author
occupied and afterward annexed legitimate national home previously Dr Cynthia Day Wallace is an international
Judea and Samaria, renaming captured in an illegal war of lawyer with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
She has held various posts in academia as
the area as its own “West Bank” aggression. well as at the United Nations, including Senior
(including the historic Old City of Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the UN
Economic Commission for Europe. Her many
Jerusalem). The annexation was To sum up: the primary foundations books include, most recently, Foundations of the
never recognized by any government in international law for the “legal” International Legal Rights of the Jewish People
and the State of Israel.
other than those of Britain, Iraq and claim based on “historic rights” or

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