montelatici
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Now equate that to Customary International law as applicable in 1920 when this treaty was signed and you see that it means so much less than it would today. You cant back date laws to another century to suit your POV and politics. The fact remains that at no time was any land in Palestine given to the arab muslims for a National Home. All they were given was the right to become citizens of the RESURECTED NATIONAL HOME FOR THE JEWS.
Also as the British show it was the arab muslims that illegally migrated to Palestine and invaded the land, the Jews had been invited to migrate and settle the land by the Ottomans and then the LoN. So the so called Palestinians have no legal rights in Palestine other than those in place in 1920.
Did you understand the last part of your much abused posting of the Mandate that gives the Jews the inalienable right to live in any nation without hindrance, violence, expulsion and religious intolerance. Something you are in breach of every time you post.
The migration was of European Jews to Palestine, the Palestinians are the indigenous inhabitants. This is just a fact.
AN INTERIM REPORT ON THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF PALESTINE, during the period 1st JULY, 1920--30th JUNE, 1921
"......There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ.* (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.) Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.
The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. In the following 30 years a few hundreds came to Palestine. Most of them were animated by religious motives; they came to pray and to die in the Holy Land, and to be buried in its soil. After the persecutions in Russia forty years ago, the movement of the Jews to Palestine assumed larger proportions. - See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations Balfour Declaration text 30 July 1921