[] In 1917, British Foreign Minister Lord Alfred Balfour sent a letter, which had been approved by the Cabinet, to Lionel Walter Rothschild—who was the 2nd Lord Rothschild and an unofficial leader of the British Jewish community—to be brought to the Zionist Federation. This letter, which became known as the Balfour Declaration, endorsed the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.

[] In 1922, the League of Nations unanimously approved the British Mandate for Palestine, which an article of international law. Based upon the Balfour Declaration, it called for a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine, with Britain, the Mandatory, to “encourage close settlement on the land.”

This vote was preceded by the San Remo Resolution of 1920, the first international legal document that spoke of a nationalhomeland for the Jews in Palestine.

[] When the United Nations succeeded the defunct League of Nations in 1945, it incorporated into its Charter Article 80, which sustained the Trusteeship System. This effectively ensured that the terms of the Mandate for Palestine would continue to be fully implemented.

[] In 1947, the General Assembly passed Resolution 181, which called for the division of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. This is without any standing in international law. This is the case, first, because General Assembly resolutions are only recommendations. And then because the Arab nations voted against it.

[] On May 14, 1948, when Israel declared independence, the Egyptian Air Force immediately attacked; this set the stage for the entry into Israel of the armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan,