November 2, a day of joy! It was 100 years ago that my grandfather celebrated in Jerusalem the Balfour declaration which laid the legal international law claim for Israel independence. A clear statement by the United Kingdom of support for Jewish statehood! Reconstituting the Jewish ancient state! In the Paris 1919 Conference at the end of WWII in which the world powers determined the future of the Middle East the statement was reinforced. In 1922 in the San Remo conference the Balfour deceleration was reinforced yet once again by world nations: “San Remo conference assigned the mandate for Palestine to the United Kingdom under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations. The Allies also decided to make the UK responsible for putting into effect its own Balfour Declaration of 1917….that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
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