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Israel's Legal Case for Sovereignty over Jerusalem

(Israel Hayom) Eldad Beck - Canadian legal scholar Dr. Jacques Gauthier notes, "When the League of Nations disappeared, the obligations of the Mandate over Palestine remained in effect. That's highly relevant for the Jewish people. The UN Charter, which is an international agreement binding for all nations, stresses that none of its articles can alter the rights given to any nations before it was ratified. That article was intended to protect the rights to the Land of Israel given to the Jews too. So that article obligates everything that is done in the UN." Therefore, UN Resolution 478 of Aug. 20, 1980, which condemned a law passed three weeks earlier by the Knesset declaring Jerusalem Israel's "complete and united" capital, "is not binding under international law," Gauthier says. At the San Remo Conference in April 1920, "For two days, representatives of the victorious nations discussed what to do with the Ottoman Empire's land....On April 25, they made the decision: Britain, France, Italy, Greece, Belgium, and Japan agreed that the Jews could establish a national home in Palestine." "The most fervent supporter was David Lloyd George of Britain. The French representative asked him why Palestine should be given to the Jews. He responded by pulling out a map that showed the boundaries of the Holy Land in the time of King David and King Solomon." "The rights [to Jerusalem] were given to the Jews at a specific point in history. That is relevant to every negotiation and any future agreement about the status of Jerusalem." "When the UN publishes resolutions referring to 'occupied Palestinian territories,' the term has no validity when it comes to international law, since these territories were never Palestinian."
2018-12-07 00:00:00
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