Long before 1948.
"Whereas recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine, and to the grounds for reconstituting their National Home in that country..."
-League of Nations mandate to transfer control of Palestine to Britain (formally approved in 1922)
Reconstitute \(ˈ)rē-ˈkän(t)-stə-ˌt(y)üt\: to restore to a former condition.
That is, even long before 1922!
This, as Carolyn Glick points out, dispels the myth that the only reason that Israel was established was to soothe the guilty consciences of Europeans, who were embarrassed about the Holocaust. In fact, the international community recognized the legal, historic and moral rights of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel before anyone had ever heard of Hitler.
One of those who has swallowed this myth whole - hook, line and sinker, as they say - is the misinformed, B.H. Obama. As he noted in his unfortunate speech in Cairo the other day, "the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history." This, of course, couldn't be further from the truth, as our homeland became our homeland well before our "tragic history" ever took place. I hope Rahm Emanual reminded his boss what Disraeli once pointed out: "When your ancestors were still swinging from the trees, mine were serving as priests in Solomon's Temple."
One of those who has swallowed this myth whole - hook, line and sinker, as they say - is the misinformed, B.H. Obama. As he noted in his unfortunate speech in Cairo the other day, "the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic history." This, of course, couldn't be further from the truth, as our homeland became our homeland well before our "tragic history" ever took place. I hope Rahm Emanual reminded his boss what Disraeli once pointed out: "When your ancestors were still swinging from the trees, mine were serving as priests in Solomon's Temple."
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