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INTRODUCTION

One hundred years ago, the world witnessed the beginning of a new
international initiative for peace. The League of Nations was created in

January 1920, following the bloodshed of the First World War. It was
the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose primary purpose

was to preserve world peace, later succeeded by the United Nations.

For the Middle East specifically, a took root, such as a ‘two-state Resolution’s two basic principles
new pathway for peace was also solution’, but with very little are both vital: (i) national identity
laid at San Remo in Italy just three peaceful cooperation to show and sovereign rights of one primary
months later, fixed securely within for it. In the public debate over ethnic group, and (ii) protection of
the same framework of international international law pertaining to minority rights–both of which are
treaty law. Israel and the Palestinian people, authentically Jewish ideas. Now at
certain consensus views became the centenary of this key moment
A forgotten key established, without full knowledge for world peace, the time is ripe for
Over the following decades, as of the legal facts. a reassessment of the best way
further conflicts reshaped the forward in the Middle East, informed
world, the San Remo Resolution The San Remo Resolution was by the values and vision that
lay classified in the British War still largely forgotten until around shaped its legal foundations.
Archives, due to its inclusion 2007, when several international
in the minutes of official peace jurists including Jacques Gauthier The gift of the Jewish
negotiations rather than in and the late Howard Grief came to people
a separate treaty (the text is the conclusion, independently of During their millennia of dispersion
reproduced at the end of this one another, that it was still valid among all nations, the Jewish
booklet). New ideas for peace and therefore highly relevant. The people have contributed greatly

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