Israel's Legal Borders Under International Law 1of 3

What are Israel's borders under international Law? Atty. Howard Grief is the Author of The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law. Mr. Grief tells Mark Kaplan in this Israel Independent TV News interview why Israel is not obligated to surrender Judea and Samaria to the Palestinian Authority, and how President Obama may be violating US constitutional law by pressuring Israel to freeze settlement construction.

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[JBgarbuz]

There is no question that at the San Remo conferences, the area that was supposed to be the Jewish National Home was supposed to include even the Golan heights and large part of what is now Jordan. However, due to the politics

the French held onto the Golan as part of the Syrian Mandate, and Britain gave eastern Palestine to what became Transjordan, now Jordan. But the 1922 Mandate gave Jews worldwide the right to return and settle all the rest of the territory west of the Jordan river.

[iitvNews]

To @cafeturkie:

It was the oil interest that led to the 1924 treaty that ties the US to the Mandate for Palestine. Standard Oil, which became Amoco and then BP(now a very popular corporation), had drilling rights to the oil-rich Negev (which has no oil). That is also what drove the British to recommend Partitioning Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab countries, with Jerusalem and the Negev under British control. Of course the UN rejected that idea. The Mandate though is still the law.

[cafeturkie]

@iitvNews Fascinating. Thank you!

[cafeturkie]

@JBgarbuz No question bro. The only problem is that once you get into the political world Israeli PMs have pressures from all over the world (such as America, whose State Dept has always been anti-Israel).

Around the time Britain entered Palestine, oil was discovered in Arabia. Another new book out deals with this called 'The Arab Lobby'. I've ordered it along with Grief's book. Can't wait to receive them!

[sweetieeg]

Good video Uncle Howard. I would like to see a map of the areas that you speak of. THese maps or illustrations could be quite useful to the viewer. Perhaps you caould take these illustrations from your book.

Thanks,

Eric Grief