Right to Jerusalem has firm establishment in international law
An expert legal affairs defends Israel's capital:
The Jewish people's right to Jerusalem was granted under international law at the end of the First World War, a leading international legal scholar said at the UN Monday.For the record, it's about time we stop calling local Arabs "palestinians".
“[The] title over Jerusalem and its Old City was granted to the Jewish people during the San Remo conference of the Principal Allied Powers in April 1920," Dr Jacques Gauthier said at an event by the Christian group European Coalition for Israel (ECI) and the Forum for Cultural Diplomacy, which commemorated the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem with a High Level UN breakfast briefing in New York with the Mayor of Jerusalem, Nir Barkat, as a guest of honor.
In the Gregorian calendar, June 7 marks the 50th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.
Gauthier said it was in San Remo that the claims presented on the behalf of the Jewish people on February 27, 1919, during the Paris peace conference - the rights of the Jewish people to reconstitute a Jewish national home in what was then called Palestine - were approved.
"The rights granted in San Remo were incorporated in the treaty of Sevre in 1920 and the Mandate for Palestine approved by the League of Nations in 1922," he said. "These rights included the recognition of the historical connection between the Jewish people and Jerusalem and the right to reconstitute in that City their ancient capital."
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