A stand on the centenary of the adoption of the British Mandate of Palestine
On the occasion of the centenary of the British Mandate on Palestine, Damascus University and the Syrian Association of the United Nations organized a legal, political and humanitarian stand at Damascus University on July 24th.
Dr. Muhammad Osama Al-Jabban, Rector of Damascus University, stressed that holding of the stand at Damascus University is an important occasion that brings together a group of intellectuals, politicians, diplomats and academics from Palestine and Syria in order to illuminate and enrich awareness about the dangerous effects and repercussions of the unjust British Mandate on Palestine.
Head of the Syrian League to the United Nations Dr. George Jabbour stressed that the issue of Palestine remains in the heart of every Arab, indicating that the British Mandate on Palestine was legislated for the benefit of “ imported people” at the expense of the people who are in Palestine.
In the speech of the Palestinian jurists, Counselor Rashid Ma’id, a former criminal court judge, presented a working paper that included the legal aspect and the contradictions that the Mandate imposed by the League of Nations and the attempt to legitimize and the tragedies that resulted from it.
The Secretary-General of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, Khaled Abdel Majeed, drew attention to the national responsibility that Syria bears towards the Palestinian cause and the sacrifices it made for the sake of Palestine.
Head of the Union of Scholars of the Levant Dr. Muhammad Tawfiq Ramadan al-Bouti stressed that it is the Palestinian organizations that will write the history of Palestine, not the decisions, and Jerusalem will return to its people.
The Dean of the Faculty of Law at Damascus University, Dr. Haitham Al-Tas, sent a letter on behalf of the faculty to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stressing the need for the international community to work to end the historical injustice caused by the British Mandate government a hundred years ago by issuing a promise to establish a national entity for the Jews on the land of Palestine.
The stand, which included the screening of a documentary film inspired by the occasion entitled “A Dream that Will Never Die,” was attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen in Damascus Abdullah Ali Sabri, the Ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in Damascus Jose Gregorio PiomorjiMusatis, Dr. Khalaf Al-Muftah, Director General of Al-Quds International Foundation, Syria Branch, and Dr. Ibrahim Jumaa, a member of the branch leadership Damascus University to the Arab Socialist Baath Party, a number of political and legal figures, deans of faculties at the university, and a crowd of professors and interested parties.
O. al-Mohammad