Rebbe Yid,
Thank you for discovering the lack or veracity. I was suspect, so I looked up the source. But I did not go far enough. I appreciate your intellectual honesty and diligence.
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One of the sources that I see as holding of the 3 Oaths is the RambaN at the end of the RambaM’s Sefer Hamitsvot. In the section of mitsvot that the RambaM forgot, the RambaN includes yishuv ha’arets. In that paragraph, the RambaN uses the lashon of “conquer” 11 times. However, 2/3 though the paragraph he changes gears and says that even today there is a mitsvah for every individual to live there and inherit it. He changes from plural to singular (first shavua -lo ya’alu bachoma), and he changes from conquering to living & inheriting (2nd shavua – lo yimradu).
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“Besides, the other nations ratified our right to a state in the San Remo conference a few years after WW1.”
AVI K,
Thanks for that info. That really blows a hole in my theory of history. Tiyuvta.
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Dr Hall, good to hear from you.