FACT CHECK · PALESTINE: THE NAME AND THE IDENTITY
Claim: A name's age decides no one's rights
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Both sides argue from a name. Law and equal rights for everyone living there matter more than which name is older. A name cannot remove anyone's rights.
SOURCE
Principle; the Mandate (1922, T1) safeguards 'the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine'
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