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From San Remo to its 72nd birthday, Israel survives the virus of political and moral collapse
by Melanie Phillips
April 23, 2020

One hundred years ago this Sunday, the four principal allied powers involved in World War I signed a resolution at San Remo. Next week, Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut, the 72nd anniversary of the state’s declaration of independence. Typically, the world thinks that the key step towards the establishment of the State of Israel was the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the statement in which the British government committed itself to work for the establishment of a Jewish home in what was then called Palestine. Relatively little attention has been paid to the more important milestone in that story: the San Remo resolution signed on April 26, 1920. READ MORE