The Balfour Declaration was a British public statement made during World War I that read:

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 signed by the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the letter was published in the press on 9 November 1917.


The Balfour Declaration was a British public statement made during World War I that read:

Declaration

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 signed by the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the letter was published in the press on 9 November 1917.


Declaration

His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

Basis Blades of
Elements Geometric Concept
Point and Dual Sphere
Without is Dual Plane
Point Pair
Bivector
Tangent vector
Direction vector (plus Bivector is Dual Line)
Flat Point Origin
Circle
3D Pseudoscalar
Tangent Bivector
Direction Bivector (plus is the Line)
Sphere
Without is the Plane

These, together with and , are the 32 basis blades of the algebra.


In January 2019 the Dail (Ireland's lower house) voted in favour, by 78 to 45, of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) bill.[1] This piece of legislation prohibits the purchasing of any good and/or service from the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem or West Bank settlements. As of February 2019 the bill has some stages to be completed,once codified, either a five-year jail sentence or fines of up to €250,000 ($284,000) will affect anyone who breaks this law.[2][3][4]

Having been agreed in full by the Upper house on 5 December 2018, and by the Dail (Ireland's lower house) on 24 January 2019, the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) bill [1] prohibits the purchasing of any good and/or service from the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem or West Bank settlements. As of July 2019 the bill is in committee stage.Remaining Stages Selfstudier (talk) 15:17, 12 September 2019 (UTC)

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In Ireland, the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill cleared the Upper house on 5 December 2018 and has progressed to Third Stage in the Lower house following a Second Stage vote of 78 to 45 on 24 January 2019.RefRef. Although debate has focused on the Palestinian territories the bill prohibits the purchase of goods and services from any occupied territory.Ref

(References are shown as links, the suggested section is where the current version of this material is presently located).

References

  1. ^ https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2018/6/eng/initiated/b0618s.pdf
  2. ^ "Ireland passes BDS bill banning Israel settlement goods". Middle East Monitor. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
  3. ^ "Occupied Territories Bill passes in Dáil despite government opposition". Irish Post. 24 January 2019. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  4. ^ "July 2019 Update: Occupied Territories Bill". Senator Frances Black. 22 July 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.

Annually recurring general assembly resolutions edit

16 resolutions usually voted on annually
Number Resolution Latest Yes No Abstain
1 A/RES/75/20, Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 2 December, 2020 91 17 54
2 A/RES/75/21, Division for Palestinian Rights of the Secretariat 2 December, 2020 82 25 53
3 A/RES/75/22, Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine 2 December, 2020 145 7 9
4 A/RES/75/23, Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Global Communications of the Secretariat 2 December, 2020 142 8 11
5 A/RES/75/93, Assistance to Palestine refugees 10 December, 2020 169 2 7
6 A/RES/75/94, Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 10 December, 2020 162 4 9
7 A/RES/75/95, Palestine refugees’ properties and their revenues 10 December, 2020 160 5 12
8 A/RES/75/96, Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories 10 December, 2020 76 14 83
9 A/RES/75/97, Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Syrian Golan 10 December, 2020 150 7 17
10 A/RES/75/98, Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem 10 December, 2020 147 10 16
11 + A/RES/75/126, Assistance to the Palestinian people 11 December, 2020 *- - -
12 + A/RES/75/172, The right of the Palestinian people to self-determination 16 December, 2020 168 5 10
13 + A/RES/75/236, Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources 21 December, 2020 153 6 17
14 ++ A/RES/74/84, Persons displaced as a result of the June 1967 and subsequent hostilities 13 December, 2019 162 6 9
15 +++ A/RES/73/22, Jerusalem 30 November, 2018 148 11 14
16 +++ A/RES/73/97, Applicability of the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, of 12August 1949, to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the other occupied Arab territories 7 December, 2018 154 5 8

+ - Document links will work once the document has been published in the Official Document System. Details can meanwhile be found at the United nations website.[1]

++ & +++ - 2019 & 2018 data. * - Passed by consensus. Voting records can be examined here.