a. the original League of Nations decision on the matter, with no less authority than the United Nations, was based foremost on “the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country” (incidentally, the term “Arabs” never appears in the document) reads in Article 6 — “The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency. referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews, on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.” In other words, settlement is an activity the Jews are supposed to enjoy by right and the territory of the Mandate in 1922 included Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank” only came into the semantics of the dispute in 1950);

b. what happened in 1950? the Hashemite Kingdomm of Jordan, having illegally occupied the area by launching a war og aggression in violation of the UN’s recommendations and decisions, annexed it officially in April 1950, an act not recognized except by England. but then, no one was excited or actively campaigned against this “illegal occupation”. i would think that hypocrisy counts for negative points for those who now are anti-Israel.

c. since the local Arab population ever since 1920 had been engaged in ethnic cleansing of Jews from areas in that territory in which they lived for centuries, and currently demand that no Jews live in their area and have a law on their books (as does Jordan) that no Jew may own property in their territory, this people/regime has no moral authority to deny Jews our rights.