These guys must be living on another planet.
Macron, Burnham, Carney say Israeli settlement expansion an ‘urgent threat’ to two-state solution
French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have issued a joint statement stressing the need for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The UN Has Recognized Israel’s Claim to All the Territory Between ‘the River and the Sea’
The territory that the League of Nations originally contemplated for inclusion in the Mandate for Palestine stretched from the Mediterranean, across the river Jordan. It included all the land east of the Jordan “out to the desert” that later became the Emirate of Transjordan. In 1921, however, the British decided to seal off from Jewish settlement all of the Mandate’s land east of the river.
The League of Nations was quite clear, however, that all of the territory between the Mediterranean and the river Jordan remained part of the Palestine Mandate, the mandate that had only one purpose: to create under the supposedly benign British administration a state — the only state — for the Jews. When the League of Nations collapsed, the United Nations replaced it. In Article 80 of the UN Charter, this successor organization committed itself to continuing to bring to statehood any mandates still outstanding — and the only one then outstanding was the Mandate for Palestine. Legally, then, the UN was bound to recognize the Jewish state’s claim to all of the territory between “the river and the sea.”

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