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Ways Forward
What relevance does the San Remo Resolution have for future peace?
Dr James Earle Patrick
Editor
he San Remo Conference acknowledged that foreign nations must in time release responsibility for peace and
Tprosperity in the Middle East to its native inhabitants. The way forward must therefore be found by the peoples
themselves, not imposed by outsiders who think we know best, as we did in Roman and Crusader times. Nevertheless,
the first comment here is from one whose self-sacrificial love for the people of Iraq as ‘Vicar of Baghdad’ has earned
him a right to be heard among the voices of various stakeholders in the region that follow.
The Rev’d Canon Dr Andrew White Middle East Reconciliation International <www.jerusalemmerit.org>
“Commemorating the San expediency and unassailable (as the rest of Israel) was
Remo Conference must rights enshrined in lawfully restored to the
surpass the mere act of international law, namely the Jewish people in 1920.
remembrance. One must acquired rights of the Jewish Any negotiation toward the
seriously consider the legal people in their ancestral establishment of peace and
reach of binding, irrevocable land and the legitimacy of the protection of minority
decisions made in 1920. Israel as a Jewish state. communities within the land
The road to peace and should be based on this
reconciliation cannot be References to Israel’s premise.”
embarked upon without ‘occupation of the West
acknowledging fundamental Bank’ and its supposedly
historical and legal facts. ‘illegal settlements’ that
Only then can one avoid pervade the discourse
entertaining incompatible of Palestinian Arabs and
positions caused by the their supporters are mere
clash between political allusions to territory which
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