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Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage

Britain and Its Mandate over Palestine: Legal Chicanery on a World Stage

Author: John Quigley
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 9781839984631
Published In: September 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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Britain’s role in Palestine has never before been analyzed by close scrutiny of its legal status. Britain’s relation to the League of Nations has been analyzed only at a superficial level. Most authors say without proof that Britain was given Palestine by the League of Nations, or that the League of Nations required Britain to implement a Jewish national home. This book is ground-breaking as the first to look deeper into these issues, and to show that the commonly accepted analysis is historically incorrect.

This book makes four new points about Britain’s role in Palestine. Britain had no legal basis for its tenure in Palestine. No right to self-determination for the Jewish people was recognized by the international community. The mandate document that Britain composed was not legally valid. The League of Nations gave no rights either to Britain or to the Jewish people.

The predominant analysis on the period of British control by authors who take a Zionist perspective is that the international community accepted a Jewish entitlement in Palestine. The predominant analysis by authors who take an Arab perspective is that Britain violated Arab rights by not complying with the requirements imposed by the League of Nations. This book challenges both of these approaches, because neither set of authors asks whether what Britain was doing rested on a solid legal foundation.

To make its point, the book draws on documentation from the 1920s that others have overlooked, whether they be pro- or anti-Zionist. The most explosive item – one that has hidden in plain view for one hundred years – is a pleading the British Government filed in the Permanent Court of International Justice admitting that it was in Palestine only by dint of military conquest and that it had no other legal basis.

Preface

Setting the Stage: Was Britain’s Rule in Palestine Legal?

1. The Balfour Declaration Is the Focal Point for the Legal Situation of Palestine

2. The Balfour declaration Was a Binding Commitment to the Jewish People

3. The Jewish National Home Meant a Jewish State

4. The Balfour Declaration Was Issued to Affirm Jewish Rights in Palestine

5. The Paris Peace Conference Raised Jewish Statehood to the International Level

6. Britain’s Allies Made the Balfour Declaration an International Commitment

7. Britain’s Allies Endorsed Jewish Rights

8. Britain Took on Palestine because of the League’s Mandate System

9. The League of Nations Protected Palestine’s Arab Population

10. Britain Was Given Palestine by the League of Nations