Broader View

Exchange of letters between Prime Minister Sharon and President Bush, April 2004

Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement for the West Bank and Gaza Strip (also known as “Oslo II” or “Taba Agreement”), September 1995 [background & summary from the Reut Institute]

King Hussein’s Address to the Nation [Jordan], July 31, 1988: Jordan severs administrative and legal ties with the West Bank.

Hamas Covenant, 1988: The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement

UN Security Council Resolution 242, 1967

Fourth Geneva Convention regarding the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, August 12, 1949

Israel-Jordan Armistice Agreement, April 3, 1949

Article 11 is the basis for the Palestinian claim of the ‘right of return’ for refugees, as well as the right of the Jews expelled from Arab countries to be compensated for their lost and expropriated property.

Israel’s Declaration of Independence, May 15, 1948

UN General Assembly Resolution 181 (“Partition Plan”), November 29, 1947 [pdf]

United Nations Charter, 1945

Article 80. Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship agreements, made under Articles 77, 79, and 81, placing each territory under the trusteeship system, and until such agreements have been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively be parties.

British White Paper on Palestine, 1939

The Anglo American Treaty, 1924

Congressional Record, 1922 House of Representatives. “National Home for the Jewish People, House Resolution 360 (Rept. 1172).” June 30, 1922. 9799-9820, Part I, Part II.

The Palestine Mandate by The Council of the League of Nations, July 24, 1922

Article 6. The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.

San Remo Resolution, April 25, 1920 [video]

Treaty of Sevres, 1920

Article 95 specifies the responsibility of the British Government for to put into effect the Balfour declaration, “in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

Faisal-Weizmann Agreement, January 3 , 1919 [images of the original text may be found here]

Balfour Declaration, 1917

The Hague Convention IV, 1907

Article 42 defines “occupied territory”

IDF Ethics: The mission and values of the Israel Defense Forces, as carried by every Israeli soldier.

Many more historical documents are listed and linked here, on the Web site of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs