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Endnotes
1 Methods of population transfer may include financial subsidies, planning, public information, military action, recruitment of
settlers, legislation or other judicial action, and the administration of justice. The Human Rights Dimensions of Population Transfer,
including the Implantation of Settlers, Preliminary Report prepared by A. S. al-Khawasneh and R. Hatano. Commission on Human
Rights Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Forty-fifth Session 2–27 August 1993,
Item 8 of the provisional agenda, E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/17, 6 July 1993, at paras. 15 and 17.
2 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, entered into force on 1 July 2002, Article 7.2(d).
3 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, entered into force on 1 July 2002, Article 8.2(b)(viii).
4 For more details on Zionist population transfer plans, see Masalha, Nur, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in
Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948, Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992. Also see Simons, Chaim, International
Proposals to Transfer Arabs from Palestine 1895–1947, A Historical Survey, Hoboken, New Jersey: Ktav Publishing, 1988.
5 The Basle Program, 31 August 1897, excerpts reprinted in Documents on Palestine, From the Pre-Ottoman/Ottoman Period to the
Prelude to the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference, Abdul Hadi, Madhi F. (ed.). Jerusalem: PASSIA, 1997, p. 14.
6 The Complete Diaries of Theodor Herzl, Vol. I. Patai, Rephael (ed.). New York: Herzl Press and T. Yoseloff, 1960, pp. 8–9.
7 Sultany, Nimer, Citizens Without Citizenship. Mada’s First Annual Political Monitoring Report: Israel and the Palestinian Minority
2000–2002, Haifa: Mada, 2003, pp. 42–43.
8 Israel and the Palestinian Minority 2004, Sultany, Nimer (ed.), Mada’s Third Annual Political Monitoring Report. Haifa: Mada,
July 2005, p. 33.
9 The slogan was eventually barred by the Central Committee managing the Israeli elections, although the party continued to
advocate for the transfer of Palestinians. See Weekly Review of Human Rights Violations against the Palestinian Arab Minority in
Israel, No. 264/3–10 March 2006, Nazareth: Arab Association for Human Rights, p. 3.
10 The Balfour Declaration is reprinted in Survey of Palestine, Vol. I, prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information
of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Reprinted in full with permission from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1991, p. 1. Prior to issuing the final Declaration, the British obtained the assent
of the United States. The US Congress subsequently adopted a resolution on 30 June 1922, “[f]avoring the establishment in
Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.” McCarthy, Justin, The Population of Palestine: Population Statistics of the Late
Ottoman Period. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, p. 21.
11 Table 2.2, Population of Palestine in 1918, Projected Back from 1922 Census Figures, as corrected, McCarthy, Justin, The Population
of Palestine: Population Statistics of the Late Ottoman Period. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990, p. 26.
12 Table III, Jewish Land Ownership in Palestine, Lehn, Walter, The Jewish National Fund. London: Kegan Paul International, 1988,
p. 74.
13 Gibbons, Herbert Adams, “Zionism and the World Peace,” Century 97, 1919, p. 371, reprinted in Stevens, Richard P., Zionism
and Palestine Before the Mandate: A Phase of Western Imperialism: An Essay with a Selection of Readings. Beirut: Institute for Palestine
Studies, 1972, pp. 56–57.
14 Quigley, John, Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice. Durham: Duke University Press, 1990, p. 8.
15 Anglo-French Declaration, 7 November 1918.
16 Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations stipulates that “[c]ertain communities formerly belonging to the Turkish
Empire [including Palestine] have reached a stage of development where their existence as independent nations can be provisionally
recognized subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a Mandatory until such time as they are able
to stand alone.” Covenant of the League of Nations, 28 June 1919, reprinted in Survey of Palestine, Vol. I. Washington, DC:
Institute for Palestine Studies, 1991, pp. 2–3.
17 The Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Turkey, signed at Sèvres, 10 August 1920, Part II, Section VII,
Art. 94.
18 The Mandate did not come into force until 29 September 1923. The Mandate for Palestine, 24 July 1922, is reprinted in Survey
of Palestine, Vol. I. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1991, pp. 4–11.
19 Statement by Arthur Balfour, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office No. 371/4183 (1919), quoted in The
Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem 1917–1988, Part I. New York: United Nations, 1990.
20 Out of 9,000 citizenship applications from Palestinians outside the country, British officials approved only 100. Based on an
average family size of six persons, more than 50,000 Palestinians may have been affected. Palestine Royal Commission Report, Cmd.
5479. London: HMSO, 1937, p. 331. For a description of the problem facing Bethlehem families, see Musallam, Adnan A.,
Developments in Politics, Society, Press and Thought in Bethlehem in the British Era 1917-1948. Bethlehem: WIAM – Palestinian
Conflict Resolution Center, 2002.
21 Toward the De-Arabization of Palestine/Israel 1945–1977. Nijim, Basheer K. (ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing
Company, 1984, p. 10. Because of the reliance on agriculture, the impact of the loss of land went far beyond the amount of land
lost to Zionist colonization during this period. Palestinian ownership of land declined approximately 4% as a result of the sale of