The Importance of the San Remo Conference

In 2003, Attorney Howard Grief brought the minutes of the San Remo Conference and the text of the San Remo Resolution out of the dusty British Archives. Grief addresses the 90th Anniversary commemoration of the San Remo Conference about the importance the Conference and Resolution as the legal foundation of the modern State of Israel under International Law.

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[yesspam]

I love the way that Zionists can simultaneously argue that there was never any such place as Palestine, but that all of it belongs to them.

[iitvNews]

@yesspam Palestine is the Western world's name for the Holy Land /the Land of Israel. The names are all synonymous. "Palestine" had never been an independent country. The last independent country on the land (with a seat of government in the land) was the Jewish nation of Judea, destroyed by the Romans in the year 70. The population at that time, mostly Jewish, was around 2- million, and afterwards dwindled to around 267,000 b until the 1800s (ctd)

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@yesspam Pt2.

The land had been under the rule of the Ottoman Turkish Empire for the past 500 years. There had never been an Arab country ruling in Palestine. There was around a hundred years of Arab rule from abroad, but Palestine was never considered an Arab country. In the 1800s, as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart, economic conditions began to improve slightly in Palestine and Arabs began migrating for work. When the Zionists began building in the land, Arabs came to find more work.(Ctd)

[iitvNews]

@yesspam pt 3 The San Remo Resolution created Palestine as a country for the first time in history, but it was the reconstitution of the Jewish Commonwealth, not an Arab State. Most Arabs who, since the late 60s began calling themselves Palestinian, didn't arrive in Palestine until the years of the Mandate (1922-1948). I'm sorry, but the Arabs have been rewriting history. Take a look at the historical documents. The Legend of the great Arab Nation of Palestine is a myth, & the world believes it

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Pt 7

Response to save jlm

The Mandates were just a legal tool for ensuring indigenous populations were given autonomy in their respective territories. The Mandates system was nothing more than a legal contract obligating already existing powers to serve as “big brothers” for setting up these countries. Feisal could not have created a Mandate for Palestine. He had no legal ability to do so. As a matter of fact, Feisal rejected the Mandate for Syria, and that's why the French threw him out.

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Pt 6

Response to save jlm

...However, It was ultimately up to the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers (Britain, France, Italy, and Japan) to decide what to do with the territories. The League of Nations gave its full blessing for the decisions, but they had nothing to do with the legally binding nature of the 14 Mandates the victorious allies created.

The Mandates were just a legal tool for ensuring indigenous populations were given autonomy in their respective territories...

[iitvNews]

Pt 5

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The French & British were given the task to administer the Mid East Mandates, & they certainly had imperialist intentions in the Mid East, but Italy & Japan (the other 2 allies) had nothing to gain in any “imperialist” respect in the Middle East when deciding to create the Mandates for Syria, Mesopotamia, & Palestine. The agreement to create these small independent countries was reached at the Paris Peace Conference with the support from delegates from around the world.

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Pt 4

Response to SaveJlm...

The Arab Jewish Agreement obligated the Hedjaz, whom Feisal represented in the agreement to implement the 1917 British Foreign Policy statement known as the Balfour Declaration. The Balfour Declaration was the Basis for the San Remo Resolution and the Mandate for Palestine: To put “into effect the declaration…adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people…”

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Pt 3

Response to SaveJlm...

Your observation that the Arab-Jewish Agreement created the Mandate for Palestine and "not on some imperialist's decision made in San Remo," is dead wrong. No Arab nation had legal title to Palestine. It had belonged to the Ottoman Turkish Empire which ceased to exist following World War I. The former Ottoman Middle East had been conquered by the victorious Principal Allied powers, to whom legal title was then transferred. Only the allies could make that decision.

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Pt 2

Response to saveJlm...

That agreement, known as the Feisal-Weitzmann Agreement, is significant because it showed Arab support for returning Palestine to the Jews. It also showed that Arabs did not consider the prior existence of a country or territory called "Palestine." The Arabs considered it a part of southern Syria, and Syria's new leader, Feisal, supported giving it to the Jews.

Your comments show that you do not grasp what the Mandates were and how they were established.