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Monday, May 14, 2012
Where is Palestine?
World War I transformed geographical nomenclature. On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Lord James Balfour issued his famous declaration proclaiming his government's approval for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." But where was "Palestine"?
After violent Arab riots during 1920-21, the British government attempted to mollify infuriated opponents of a "Jewish Palestine." Winston Churchill, British secretary of state for the colonies, offered reassurance that the Balfour Declaration did not contemplate "that Palestine as a whole should be converted into a Jewish National Home, but that such a home should be founded in Palestine."
If not "Palestine as a whole," then where? The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, approved in July 1924, provided contradictory answers. Article 6 assured "close settlement by Jews on the land" defined as Palestine. But Article 25 retracted that assurance. In convoluted language, it declared: "In the territories lying between the Jordan [River] and the eastern boundary of Palestine as ultimately determined, the Mandatory shall be entitled, with the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, to postpone or withhold application of such provisions of the Mandate as he may consider inapplicable to the existing local conditions."
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