The Jews, as the indigenous people of Palestine, have sovereignty over cisJordan under International Law.
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Submitted by Wallace Edward Brand, Nov 14, 2012 13:59

The Jews are the indigenous people of Israel. They had self government there long before there were any Arabs located there. It was for this reason that the British, in their Balfour policy in 1917, recognized that the political rights over Palestine belonged to the Jews. However in 1917, when the Balfour policy was framed, the Jews only had a 10% minority population in Palestine, even though they had had a majority of population in Jerusalem since 1863 and a plurality since 1845. There was a lot of objection to giving immediate sovereignty to the Jews while they were a minority in Palestine so they provided a trust arrangement in which the trustee, England, would facilitate Jewish immigration from the Diaspora and would have legal dominion over the trust res while it was trustee so it would temporarily exercise sovereignty until the Jews attained a population majority and were ready to exercise sovereignty. Until then, the beneficial owners of the Political or National Rights would just have a National Home. The Balfour policy was changed into International Law by the San Remo Resolution in 1920 and further confirmed by theLeague of Nations in 1922. The US was not a member of the League so we signed off on the policy by a Joint Resolution of Congress in 1922 and a treaty in 1924, the Anglo-American Convention of1924.

The Jews attained a population majority in 1950. It's majority now is 80%. If it annexed Judea and Samaria tomorrow, and all the Arabs there pledged fealty to Israel to become citizens, Israel would still have a 66% majority.

The Arabs have no claim to political rights over Palestine. Since 1920 they have been trying to take them away from the Jews by threats of violence and actual violence.

If it had been the Mafia, we would have called it extortion.

The UN General Assembly RECOMMENDED a portion of Palestine be given to the Arabs in 1947. This was acceptable to the Jews if they could get peace. The Arabs declined to accept and went to war. The RECOMMENDATIONS of the General Assembly have no legal effect unless they are accepted by both sides. So the Arabs have no claim to any of the West Bank of Palestine, (CisJordan).

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