Reprinted with permission from Leonard Grunstein, originally published on Jewish Standard: Jerusalem or Louisiana, the Matter of Title Has Long Been Resolved The matter of sovereignty over Jerusalem keeps being raised by some, as if it were a novel question of first impression. However, this is just not the case. The matter has been litigated…
Howard Grief Howard Grief served as a legal advisor to Professor Yuval Ne’eman at the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure in matters of international law pertaining to the Land of Israel and Jewish rights thereto. A Jerusalem-based attorney and notary, as well as a specialist in Israeli constitutional law, Howard Grief is the author of…
San Remo Resolution – April 25, 1920 This resolution, consisting of the Balfour Declaration and Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, is the basic document upon which the Mandate for Palestine was constructed. The San Remo Resolution concerning Palestine and the Jewish National Home was adopted at the San Remo Peace…
Mandate for Palestine [July 24, 1922] The Mandate for Palestine was granted to Britain by the Principle Allied Powers of World War I. It constituted an elaboration of what the San Remo Resolution intended to be done concerning the newly-created mandated state of Palestine. It consisted of 28 articles, all of which applied to the…
Originally published: https://web.archive.org/web/20061231204124/http://www.therightroadtopeace.com/infocenter/Heb/FrancoBritishConv.html The Franco-British [Boundary] Convention which delineated the boundaries between Palestine and Syria-Lebanon was signed on December 23, 1920. The term “Transjordan” does not appear in the Convention since it did not exist as a separate territorial entity at the time the Convention was made. What was later to become Transjordan (today called…
A Petition to Annul the Interim Agreement Howard Grief Policy Paper No. 77, 1999 Executive Summary It was beyond belief: those directing the affairs of the Government of Israel one day lost their senses.* They decided voluntarily, secretly and anti-democratically to make an agreement with an illegal, criminal organization representing a fictitious nation, non-existent in…