The rights granted to the Jewish people in the Mandate for Palestine aka The Land of Israel was to be given affect in all of Palestine
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Submitted by YJ Draiman, Jul 12, 2016 23:02

The rights granted to the Jewish people in the Mandate for Palestine aka The Land of Israel was to be given affect in all of Palestine aka The Land of Israel. It thus follows that the legal rights of the claimants to sovereignty over the Old City of Jerusalem it derives from the decisions of the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers in 1920 San Remo (The Arabs received at that time over 12 million sq. km. of territory) and from the implementation of the terms of the Mandate for Palestine aka The Land of Israel implemented and approved by the Council of the League of Nations.

In March 1921, in Cairo, Great Britain arbitrarily and without legal authority, decided to partition the mandated territory of Palestine, for international political reasons of its own. Article 25 of the Mandate gave the Mandatory Power permission to postpone or withhold (but not transfer any territory) most of the terms of the Mandate in the area of land east of the Jordan River ("Trans-Jordan"). Great Britain, as Mandatory Power, wrongfully exercised that right.

For former UN Ambassador, Professor Yehuda Zvi Blum, the rights vested in the Arab people of Palestine aka The Land of Israel with respect to the principle of self-determination were fulfilled as a result of this initial partition of Palestine aka The Land of Israel implemented and approved by the Council of the League of Nations in 1922. According to Professor Blum: "The Arab-Palestinians; have long enjoyed the self-determination in their own state – the Arab-Palestinian State of Jordan". (Worth mentioning here, in a letter written on 17 January 1921 to Churchill's Private Secretary, Col. T.E. Lawrence ("of Arabia") had reported that, in return for Arab sovereignty in Iraq, Trans-Jordan and Syria, King Hussein's eldest son, Emir Feisal—a man said by Lawrence to be known for keeping his word—had "agreed to abandon all claims of his father to Palestine". And there was also the January 1919 Faisal Weizmann Agreement).

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