Resolution 181 proposed dividing between Jews and Arabs the land then remaining under the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.
As the legal heir to the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, Israel is the legal sovereign of Judea and Samaria.
It took a local area Jewish activist who called into the station to explain Israel's rights under the League of Nations Mandate.
Britain was required by the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine to facilitate Jewish immigration to the Jewish national homeland in order to advance the cause of Jewish sovereignty.
Fortunately for their ill-served nation, their willingness to renounce the Jews' sovereign rights under the League of Nations Mandate was never binding, because the Arabs rejected the plans and so rendered them null and void.
In its 62 year history, Israel has only controlled territory vital for its national security and territory that was legally allotted to it in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate, which has never been abrogated or superseded.
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It is a great ally of the US. Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem were legally allocated to the Jewish people by the League of Nations Mandate in 1922 and that allocation has never been cancelled or superseded.
By then, Britain had run Palestine for more than 20 years, having captured it from the Turks in 1917 and accepted a League of Nations mandate to govern the country and help the Jews establish a national home.
Although it provided for the establishment of a tiny, indefensible Jewish statelet, the plan involved Jewish renunciation of their sovereign rights to the overwhelming majority of the land they had lawfully received sovereign title to under the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.
The League of Nations' letter of mandate for Britain specifically enjoined the British to facilitate Jewish immigration to the land of Israel.
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In 1932, Iraq became independent and joined the League of Nations after the British mandate ended.
Then the League of Nations awarded Britain the Mandate to govern Palestine and prepare its citizens for self-government.
China was among members of the League of Nations that in 1922 voted in favor of the Palestine Mandate, proposing a Jewish homeland.
In 1923, Britain began to govern Palestine under a mandate from the League of Nations.
That agreement was superceded by another which established a mandate system of French and British control, sanctioned by the new League of Nations.
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