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20th-century international organisation, predecessor to the United Nations
Countries, international organizations and legal bodies commonly call the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” because they are parts of the former British Man...
The phrase “new world order” entered modern political discourse at least as early as Woodrow Wilson’s post–World War I internationalism, and was re-popularized by U.S. President George H. W. Bush afte...
The earliest diplomatic uses of language closely matching "new world order" trace to the World War I and immediate postwar period, when President Woodrow Wilson used phrases such as "new order of the ...
The name “Palestine” has ancient literary roots — Herodotus used Palaistine in the 5th century BCE to describe a district of Syria (earliest incontrovertible attestation) . The term functioned for mil...
Jewish migration to Palestine during and after World War II was driven primarily by the Zionist movement’s political project, the collapse of safety for Jews in Europe after the Holocaust, and the spe...
In 1920 the territory east of the Jordan River was not a fully separate sovereign state called Jordan; instead it was part of the post‑Ottoman political vacuum that Britain placed under mandate arrang...
The territory commonly called Palestine has been governed at different times by local kingdoms and a long succession of empires: ancient Israelite and Philistine polities, Assyrian and Babylonian conq...
The British Mandate (1920–1948) and the UN’s 1947 partition plan together created the legal-geographic frame and the contested starting points that underpin nearly every modern Israeli and Palestinian...
The UN’s position that Israel’s presence in territories occupied since 1967 is unlawful rests chiefly on the International Court of Justice’s 19 July 2024 advisory opinion finding that “Israel’s conti...
My earlier answer omitted explicit mention of the 1922 Mandate for Palestine; available sources show the Mandate did commit the Mandatory (Britain) to “put into effect” the Balfour Declaration and to ...
The League of Nations mandates created many modern states from former Ottoman and German territories; nearly all former mandates achieved recognized sovereignty or were folded into UN trusteeships, wh...
The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine did recognize a “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine” and applied to lands on both sides of the Jordan River (Transjordan) . But Brita...
Countries handle dual nationals’ conscription differently: some treat dual citizens like any other citizen and can require service on arrival or even while they live abroad (U.S. State Department warn...
Transjordan was included within the geographic scope of the British Mandate for Palestine at San Remo in 1920 but was administratively treated as a separate entity by Britain from about late 1920–1921...
Zionism as a modern political movement crystallized in late‑19th‑century Europe as a response to persistent antisemitism and the limits of emancipation, with marking its formal founding moments; earli...
Woodrow Wilson’s public campaign for the League of Nations presented a vision of collective security, arbitration, and reduced armaments intended to prevent future wars; . Contemporary histories and p...
Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt are U.S. Presidents who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; , Wilson in 1919, and Roosevelt in 1906, making multiple American presidents laurea...
’s legal and political case for River rests on historical mandates, statehood claims arising from , and contemporary security and settlement realities articulated by parties from to state legal advoca...
has long been a named geographic and administrative region — used by travelers, cartographers, imperial powers and local populations for centuries before the modern State of was declared in 1948 . Whe...
A body of contemporaneous medical observations, later archival research, and modern medical analysis point to cerebrovascular disease and at least one crippling stroke that impaired ’s cognition; hist...