Undisputed territories

In her November 28 letter, I. Gendelman states, “This area was contested after the cessation of the British Mandate.”

Not so. When the British Mandate ended, sovereignty over all of Palestine, including the 70% that today is the Kingdom of Jordan, belonged to the Jewish people. One need only read the League of Nations/UN Mandate for Palestine to know that Israel holds title to the so-called West Bank, which Jordan held illegally until 1967. No binding UN resolution has ever changed that legal document. There is, and never was, a Palestinian nation, so sovereignty remained with Israel. It is neither occupied nor disputed territory. Sovereignty does not mean Israeli law automatically covers that area. That comes only with annexation, which remains to be decided.

It is incredible that the Education Ministry has not yet entered the Mandate for Palestine in the school curriculum and that our government never uses this legal basis for our rights to the West Bank instead endorsing endorse its disputed status. It would have an immense salutary effect on the next generation, as there would be less reason for the Right and Left to condemn each other. All that would remain is how to solve the problem of the almost two million Arabs on our sovereign soil who demand nothing less than the dismantling of the Jewish state and the creation of a country called Palestine that will not tolerate a single Jew on its land, as is demonstrated both in Gaza and the PA.

It is enlightening to study the Koran and understand what the three stages of taking over land from “unbelievers” entails.

EDMUND JONAH Rishon Lezion