Israeli settlement throughout the West Bank is explicitly protected by international agreements dating from the World War I era, subsequently reaffirmed after World War II, and never revoked since. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, calling for ?the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,? was endorsed by the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, drafted at the San Remo Conference in 1920, and adopted unanimously two years later. The mandate recognized ?the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine? and ?the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.? Jews were guaranteed the right of ?close settlement? throughout ?Palestine,? geographically defined by the mandate as comprising land both east and west of the Jordan River (which ultimately became Jordan, the West Bank, and Israel). This was not framed as a gift to the Jewish people; rather, based on recognition of histor