A/HRC/22/63 Annexes Annex I [English only] Timeline: Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem 1948 • The ―Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel‖ is issued. It equates Eretz-Israel (in Hebrew ―the Land of Israel‖) to the territory of British Mandate Palestine1, in contrast to the provisions of 1947 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 on the partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into two Independent Arab and Jewish States with a special international regime for the City of Jerusalem2. • The ―Israeli Proclamation‖ is issued. It creates a legislative authority: the Provisional Council of State, which unilaterally revokes the British Parliament Decision 6019 (the White Paper of 1939)3. The White Paper of 1939 indicates that ―the terms of the (Balfour) Declaration [sic] (…) do not contemplate that Palestine as a whole should be converted into a Jewish National Home, but that such a Home should be founded IN PALESTINE.[sic] (…) His Majesty's Government (…) now declare unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State (…) Jewish immigration during the next five years will be at a rate which, if economic absorptive capacity permits, will bring the Jewish population up to (…) one third of the total population (…) some 75,000 immigrants (…) After the period of five years, no further Jewish immigration will be permitted unless the Arabs of Palestine are prepared to acquiesce in it. (…) there is now in certain areas no room for further transfers of Arab land, whilst in some other areas such transfers of land must be restricted.”4 • The Law and Administration Ordinance 5708-1948 is enacted. Article 15 indicates that: ―(a) ‗Palestine‘, wherever appearing in the law, shall henceforth be read as 1 2 3 4 24 The document is found on the Israeli MFA website: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Declaration+of+Establish ment+of+State+of+Israel.htm A/RES/181(II)[A-B] David M. Sassoon, ―The Israel Legal System‖ in The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 16, No. 3, Summer, 1968. Pages 405-415 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/838665) and Yvonne Schmidt ―Foundations of civil and political rights in Israel and the occupied territories‖ Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation, 2001 Parliament Decision 6019 was considered a British policy paper. Full original text consulted on http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/brwh1939.asp