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Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history
"The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International
Law" offers a comprehensive and systematic legal treatment of
Jewish national and political rights to all of the Land of Israel.
The author, Howard Grief, is the originator of the thesis that de
jure sovereignty over the entire Land of Israel and Palestine was
vested in the Jewish People as a result of the San Remo Resolution
adopted at the San Remo Peace Conference on April 24, 1920. Yuval
Ne'eman, a former Israeli government minister said: "For about 400
years, the Ottoman Empire ruled over all the Balkans, the Middle
East and North Africa. The struggle for the liberation of those
areas began in the Balkan lands at the beginning of the 19th
century and ended in 1913. In the First World War, the job of
liberation] was completed and Turkey was reduced to the Anatolian
Peninsula. All of this was contained in the San Remo Agreement of
April 1920. The fact that it was precisely at that place and time
that Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the states of the Arabian Peninsula
obtained thanks to the victory of the Principal Allied Powers over
the Central Powers] the very same liberation from the Ottoman yoke,
strengthens the approach of Grief who presents the proof for the
inclusion of Palestine i.e., the Jewish People] in the list of
beneficiaries in regard to the "settlement or disposition] of the
inheritance of the Ottoman Empire." Dr. Ya'akov Meron, former
Adviser on the Law of Arab Countries at the Ministry of Justice,
Jerusalem, Israel and Professor of Moslem Law in the Faculties of
Law of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv wrote: "The Legal Foundation and
Borders of Israel under International Law" is a forceful and
erudite pleading for the respecting of the letter and spirit of the
law, not only Israeli law but also the international law that came
into existence in the wake of World War I. This law, now largely
forgotten or neglected, is still relevant today in regard to the
status and borders of the Land of Israel. The author makes a
thorough analysis of the international documents which recognized
the rights of the Jewish People to the land of their ancestors,
most significantly the San Remo Resolution on Palestine, agreed to
by the victorious Allies at the Peace Conference of April 1920.
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