UN General Assembly
1967

56. Without laying any claim to being a historian and without delving into the remote past, I think I can fairly say that after it was granted a mandate over Palestine by the League of Nations, Great Britain, as the Mandatory Power, played a double game and made absolutely contradictory promises to the two parties. 57. Suffice it to recall the Balfour Declaration, in which MacMahon promised to the Arabs the establishment of a great political Arab community extending over the whole of the Middle East, and to the Zionist Jews, the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine. 58. Whatever trials the Jewish people may have had to undergo, it is an established fact that for the past two thousand years the soil of Palestine has been occupied by the Arabs. In law or in fact, can there be any surer or sounder title to land than uninterrupted occupation for two thousand years? There are few States among us that can lay claim to such antiquity.