Israel's Legal Claims and the Palestine Mandate

Israel has valid, long-standing historical ties to the land.

No. Legally, no. Legally, no. I mean, that's the claim.

Uh, it doesn't have any legal foundation.

In, uh, uh, in the League of Nations, um, uh, covenant that was

part of the Versailles Treaty, the Palestine Mandate, um,

uh, was supposed to be provisionally

recognized as an independent state,

a state for everyone. A single state for all the people on

that land, not a state for a particular racial

group. So the idea-- And Jew... I-I-Israel is a, uh, a Jewish

state by definition, and there is no legal basis for

a specifically Jewish state on that land in

international law