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The San Remo Conference

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In 1920, the San Remo Conference determined that the legal title to the Land of Israel – including Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria – belonged to the Jewish people. The San Remo resolutions were incorporated into international law through the mandates issued by the League of Nations, and their legal force has never been canceled or superseded by any subsequent treaty or binding international resolution.


The San Remo Resolution of April 25, 1920 - which included the Balfour Declaration in its entirety - in shaping the map of the modern Middle East, as agreed upon by the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers (Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States acting as an observer), and later approved unanimously by the League of Nations; the Resolution remains irrevocable, legally binding and valid to this day.

“Emphasizing that the San Remo Resolution of 1920 recognized the exclusive national Jewish rights to the Land of Israel under international law, on the strength of the historical connection of the Jewish people to the territory previously known as Palestine.

“Recalling that such a seminal event as the San Remo Conference of 1920 has been forgotten or ignored by the community of nations, and that the rights it conferred upon the Jewish people have been unlawfully dismissed, curtailed and denied.

“Asserting that a just and lasting peace, leading to the acceptance of secure and recognized borders between all States in the region, can only be achieved by recognizing the long established rights of the Jewish people under international law.”

Fifty-one member countries - the entire League of Nations - unanimously declared on July 24, 1922:

“Whereas recognition has been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”

Jews are in the Land of Israel as of right and not on sufferance.

Any attempt to negate the Jewish people’s right to Palestine-Eretz-Israel, and to deny them access and control over the area designated for the Jewish people by the League of Nations is a serious infringement of international law.


The participants at last month’s conference came from Europe, Israel and North America. Their message was clear. It is long past time for Israel and the Jewish people to begin asserting our rights to our capital city and our land.


San Remo, 26 April, 2010 – Invited guests from three continents, among them the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset MK Danny Danon, commemorated on Sunday 25 April the 90th Anniversary of the signing of the San Remo resolution of 1920 at a gathering at the actual site of the original conference, the historical Villa Devachan in San Remo, Italy. At the event Deputy Speaker Danon spoke about ”the importance of raising awareness of the reconstitution of the Jewish state 90 years ago in San Remo which has since been forgotten and ignored by a large part of the international community, including the media. However, in recent years several respected international lawyers and scholars, among them Jacques Gauthier and Howard Grief, have helped raise awareness of the legal foundation of the modern state of Israel which came into effect when the Balfour declaration was incorporated into international law by the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers in San Remo in 1920 and later approved unanimously by the League of Nations at the Peace Conference in Lausanne in July 1922.

”- At a time when even the core existence of Israel as a Jewish state is being challenged by its enemies it is of vital importance that we take a closer look at international law,” said conference organizer Tomas Sandell from the European Coalition for Israel. He then reminded the audience that ”the San Remo Resolution of 1920 recognized the national Jewish sovereignty on the land of Israel under international law, on the strength of the historical connection of the Jewish people to the territory previously known as Palestine.”

”- This marked the end of the longest colonization in history,” noted Salomon Benzimra from Toronto. ”Palestine has been occupied and colonized by a succession of foreign powers for about 1,900 years (Romans, Byzantines, Sassanid Persians, Arabs, Crusaders, Mameluks, and Ottoman Turks). This early episode of liberation, which preceded the global decolonization process by more than thirty years, should be welcome by all progressive minds.”

The 90th Anniversary was initiated and hosted by the European Coalition for Israel, a non-Jewish grass roots movement based in Brussels which promotes EU-Israeli relations, and with the support of Canadian Supporters for Israel’s Legal Rights based in Toronto. The event was sponsored by the City of San Remo and supported by Members of Parliament. Among personal greetings which were sent to the solemn event on Sunday were those of Robert Lloyd George, whose great grandfather, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, was one of the original signatories of the San Remo resolution.

At the stairs of the historical Villa Devachan the pledge of 1920 was symbolically re-affirmed by representatives from the original signatory countries, including the United Sates, who signed a ”Second San Remo resolution” which reaffirms the non-revocable rights of Israel which were enshrined in international law 90 years ago and are still valid to this day.