Shusha
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Whose sovereign territory is it? Through which treaty did this other State obtain sovereignty over territory? What was this other State's defined territory (borders)? When was the government formed? When did this other State achieve recognition? These are the requirements for Statehood. I can easily answer all these questions for Israel. Can you answer them for this mysterious other State?It is not sovereign Israeli territory.
The Mandate for Palestine assigned the rights of national self-determination to the Jewish people, and ONLY to the Jewish people. The Jewish people fulfilled all of the obligations and prerequisites for being able to "stand alone". The Jewish people formed a government and declared Independence on the territory. The territory is inherited, in its entirety, from the previous administration.The Mandate did not give all the territory to Israel.
If you don't like the word "give", we don't have to use it. Israel fulfilled the requirements for creating an independent State.
Private land ownership does not confer Statehood.At the time of the Mandate, Arabs owned 70% of the land. Even then, you were only given 40% of the land with the caveat that you didn't violate the rights of the existing, non-Jewish population. But you didn't do that, did you?