What exactly are Israels legal borders under International law?
Israel’s legal borders are based on land that was controlled by the Jewish people during the First and Second Temple. The language used at San Remo and in the border convention is “From Dan to Beersheba,” the description used for the National borders many times throughout the Bible. By the time the borders were delineated in the December 1920 Franco-British Boundary Convention, the British and French managed to cut significant amounts of land from the borders, in violation of previous agreements of the Supreme Council of the Principal Allied Powers who were the disposing agents of the land under international law. However, the borders administered by the Mandate clearly set all of Judea and Samaria (the WEst Bank), Jerusalem, Gaza, and Trans-Jordan as part of the Jewish National Home of Palestine, with all the rights of close settlement.
