The San Remo Resolution of 25 April 1920 gave Great Britain the responsibility for executing the Mandates for Palestine and for Mesopotamia (now Iraq).
Centenary of the Mandate for Palestine: Part 4 – The Legal Obligations of the Mandate
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Centenary of the Mandate for Palestine: Part 3 – The San Remo Conference of April 1920
The San Remo Conference commenced on 18 April 1920 at the Villa Devachan in the Italian Riviera town of San Remo. As previously mentioned, the San Remo Conference was an addendum to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference specifically to deal with the carve-up of the defeated...
Centenary of the Mandate for Palestine: Part 2 – The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
On 31 October 1918—exactly one year after the Allied victory at Beersheba and the War Cabinet meeting that decided on the Balfour Declaration—the Ottoman Turks surrendered…
Centenary of the Mandate for Palestine: Part 1 – The Balfour Declaration
July 24 this year will mark the centenary of the ratification of the British Mandate over the territory then known as Palestine.
“Antisemitism, the Longest Hatred”—Why?
I have taken the liberty of quoting the title of a book written by the late Professor Robert Wistrich, and adding the word “Why?”
Live Recorded Webinar: Special 2022 Israel Independence Program – Whose Land?
Live webinar featuring Hugh Kitson, Writer, Producer and Director of the Whose Land? documentaries. His co-panellists were Lord Reading, whose ancestors were part of the British government at the time of the Balfour Declaration, and Natasha Hausdorff, who is Legal Director at UK Lawyers for Israel Charitable Trust.