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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/israel-overcomes-virus-of-political-moral-collapse/

The International Community Signed a Treaty 100 Years Ago to Establish a Jewish National Home

(JNS-Israel Hayom) Melanie Phillips - On April 26, 1920, the four principal allied powers involved in World War I - Britain, France, Italy, and Japan - signed a resolution at San Remo that turned the Balfour Declaration into an internationally binding treaty to establish a Jewish national home in Palestine, with Britain being given the mandate to facilitate Jewish immigration there. The Palestine within which the Jews were legally entitled to settle as their designated national home included not just the Israel that emerged in 1948, but also Judea and Samaria. That legal right given to the Jews to settle the entire land of Mandatory Palestine has never been abrogated. When Israel eventually recovered this land as a result of the Six-Day War in 1967, much of the international community pretended that its own earlier guarantees didn't exist. The international community claimed that the areas Jordan ethnically cleansed of Jews in 1948 must indefinitely remain Jew-free zones. The writer is a columnist for The Times of London.

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