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To: geode00 who wrote (194434)8/2/2006 12:38:22 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
"claiming it to be theirs"

It was British. Their spoils from beating the previous owners, the Ottoman Empire. England had a mandate from League of Nations to run it, establish Jewish homeland, in 1922.

Message 22675206 and the next 3 posts.

In June 1922 the League of Nations passed the Palestine Mandate. The Palestine Mandate was an explicit document regarding Britain's responsibilities and powers of administration in Palestine including "secur[ing] the establishment of the Jewish national home", and "safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine".
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