Paul S. Riebenfeld was a political scientist and international jurist and layer. He served as a Zionist delegate to the Palestine Mandate Commission of the League of Nations

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 from 1937 to 1939; as Honorary Chairman of the "Louis D. Brandeis Society of Zionist Lawyers"; an as Chairman of the "Policy Committee of Jordan-is-Palestine (International)." He was a recipient of the Jabotinsky Medal

Jabotinsky Medal

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 awarded by the state of Israel

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. He was a resident of the United States

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 when he died.

For years he argued, on legal grounds, and under international law, for the legality of Jewish settlement in "Judea

Judea

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," "Samaria

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," and the "Gaza

Gaza

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 District" — meaning thereby, the West Bank

West Bank

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 and the Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip

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. Contrary to this position, he could not unobjectionally be termed a "right winger"; for example, he expressed the view that "Palestinians" were legitimate Israelis, because they were, arguably, merely Jews and Hebrews of Muslim

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 religion

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or faith. If let alone, and peace came, the two peoples would re-unite, over time, by inter-marriage.

External links

• "History of Jordan, Jordan as Palestine"http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/jordan.html

• "Jerusalem in International Diplomacy"http://www.jcpa.org/art/jid-campdavid.htm