36 October 24, 1975

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Historic Basis for the Jewish Deed to the Land of Israel

By MOSHE NERIAH

(Editor's note: The fol-
lowing article by Rabbi
Neriah was provided by
the Israeli Consulate Gen-
eral for the Midwest in
Chicago.)

The Jewish people's title
to the land of Israel (Eretz
Yisrael) is beyond diepute.
That title was firmly estab-
lished long before the Exo-

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dus from Egypt in the divine
Covenant with the Pa-
triarchs and their descen-
dants throughout the gener-
ations: "And I will bring you
into the land . . . and I will
give it you for a heritage: I
am the Lord" (Ex. 6:8).
Rabbinical sages even
considered those distant
border regions which had
not been granted a full mea-
sure of holiness by religious
law to be "suburbs of Jeru-
salem," and this idea has re-
mained imbedded in the
Jewish national conscious-
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the Jewish people regarded
the whole of the land in Is-
rael as "the Holy. Land,"
always yearning for-the day
of return and never aban-
doning proprietorship.
The fact that other peo-
ples have periodically occu-
pied the land in no way af-
fects this title. A clear
distinction must be drawn,
therefore, between collec-
tive and individual rights,
between the legal and his-
toric title of the Jewish peo-
ple and the natural rights of
existing inhabitants.
So while the Israelites
were prepared to make
peace with the indigenous
population and to safeguard
their basic rights (Deut.
20:10-11; Josh. 9:15), such
action did not alter the sta-
tus of the land which was
the heritage of the Jewish
people as a collective group,
and belonged to no other
nation.
It was this unshakable
title to the land—based on
the Jewish people's age-old
connection with Eretz Yis-
rael and on the pioneering
achievements of the early
halutzim (pioneers) — that
inspired the Balfour Decla-
ration issued by the British
Government and subse-
quently endorsed by the
League of Nations.
This Declaration clearly
recognized the judicial dis ,
tinction between collective
(national) and individual
rights, _promising "the es-
tablishment in Palestine of
a national home for-the Jew-
ish people" and, at the same
time, guaranteeing "the civil
and religious rights of exist-
ing non-Jewish communi-
ties." Nowhere in the Bal-
four Declaration is there
mention of an Arab popula-
tion — only of "existing
non-Jewish communities."
Almost the whole historic
land of Israel was included
within the area allocated to
the Jewish National Home
under the Mandate en-
trusted to Britain by the
Versailles Peace Conference
and the League of Nations.
Under the terms of the
Mandate, Palestine — the

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Jewish National Home — bor hastened to incorporate pression in the preamble of
encompassed the vast area Judea and Samaria into her Resolution 242 of the UN
of Trans-Jordan, east of the territory, although this ille- Security Council, cannot be
Jordan River. gal act of annexation was applied in such a way as to
Only a short time, how- recognized only by Great favor states which them-
ever, elapsed before. Britain Britain and Pakistan, and selves unlawfully invaded
unilaterally divided its man- - not by the Arab states.
the territories in question.
dated territory, handing the According to eminent ju-
• The Zionist Movement's
region east of the Jordan to rists, international law up- agreement in 1947 to relin-
the Emir Abdullah and leav- holds the Jewish people's quish its claim to a portion
ing only Western Palestine rights to the areas under the of the land of Israel within
as the truncated "National Mandate that remained in the framework of the Gen-
Home." In this way a good force until 15 May, 1948.
(Continued on Page 37)
three-quarters of the tern- They affirm that the state
tory of the land of Israel of Israel has more rights to
was wrested from the Jew- claim sovereignty over the
ish people by a political act whole territory of the land
that had no legal basis or of Israel than any other
League of Nations sanction. state in the region.
It explicitly contravened the
This opinion was set forth
terms laid down by the in a memorandum to the
Mandate Commission.
Israel Government dated
Today, half a century or Aug. 19, 1970, which states:
more later, we can look back
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ish immigration in the pe- Gaza Strip.
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