Mandate For Palestine

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Don't hesitate to comment below if you have any questions or additional phrases Have you ever asked yourself why during the period between 1917 and 1947 hundreds of thousands of Jews throughout the world woke up one morning and decided to leave their homes and go to Palestine? ,The two most significant events leading to the creation of a Jewish National Home Founding of modern Zionism Benjamin Ze'ev (Theodor) Herzl May 2, 1860 – July, 3 1904 Balfour Declaration The British Foreign Office, November 2, 1917 ,Benjamin Ze'ev Herzl |May 1860 – July 1904 “Oppression and persecution cannot exterminate us. No nation on earth has survived such struggles and sufferings as we have gone through. “Palestine is our ever-memorable historic home. The very name of Palestine would attract our people with a force of marvelous potency. “The idea which I have developed in this pamphlet is a very old one: it is the restoration of the Jewish State.” First Zionist Congress in 1897 The Jewish State, 1896 Founder of modern Zionism ,The Balfour Declaration |November 2, 1917 The Balfour Declaration The British Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917 Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty’s Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet. “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Arthur James Balfour The British Foreign Office, November 2nd, 1917 ,Ottoman Empire 1516 - 1916 The Great Powers ====== U.K. U.S. France Italy Japan ,The League of Nations Birth Geneva January 10 1920 Members pledged: Not to go to war Submit disputes to arbitration ,The “Mandate for Palestine” &The British Mandate Confusing ? Trust: “Mandate for Palestine” (An Official Order) “The Mandates of the League of Nations have a special status in international law. They are considered to be trusts, indeed ‘sacred trusts.’” Professor Eugene V. Rostow Trustee: The British Mandate. (Acting As Mandatory) Great Britain was entrusted by the League of Nations with the responsibility to administer the area of Palestine in accordance with the provisions of the articles of the “Mandate for Palestine.” ,Original Mandate TerritoryAssigned to the Jewish National Home San Remo Italy April 24, 1920 ,“Recognition … to the Historical Connection of the Jewish People with Palestine. (Preamble to the Mandate) “Reconstitutingtheir National Home in that Country [Palestine] (Preamble to the Mandate) “Recreation of Palestine as the National Home of the Jewish race. (U.S. Congress 1922) “Rebuildingof their ancient homeland” (U.S. Congress 1922) A Telling Terminology ,Churchill Reassure the Jews in Palestine Jews are in Palestine “as of right and not on sufferance” Winston Churchill Winston Churchill British Secretary of State for the Colonies June, 1922 ,July 24, 1922 51member countries - The entire League of Nations - Unanimously declared: “Recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that Country.” Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, British India, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,