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Source: https://jcpa.org/100-years-since-the-san-remo-conference/
100 Years Since the San Remo Conference
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Amb. Dore Gold - In April 2020, the Jewish people will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the San Remo Conference of 1920, which in the aftermath of the First World War created the geographic basis of the modern Middle East. San Remo dealt with the disposition of territories that were a part of the Ottoman Empire, which had been defeated in the war. The postwar treaties enabled the emergence of the system of Arab states, on the one hand, and the emergence of a "national home for the Jewish people," on the other hand. San Remo converted Britain's 1917 Balfour Declaration into a binding international treaty, setting the stage for the League of Nations Mandate, which was approved in 1922. At San Remo, Jewish historic rights became Jewish legal rights. The writer, former director-general of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Israel's Ambassador to the UN, is president of the Jerusalem Center.