P F Tinmore
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The British Mandate prevented the Palestinians from creating self governing institutions. The Mandate assisted the Zionists in theirsettler colonial projectself governing institutions.
A number of things here strike me as proof that there were no new states at this time.
1. The requirement for a Mandate at all.
2. The documented ability of the Mandate to enter into agreements and treaties of the time.
3. The actual control of the Mandate government in the territory.
4. The admission that the territory of Palestine had no existing self-governing institutions (no government).
Further, it shows that the development of self-determination and self-governing institutions was intended and actualized for the Jewish people and no other people.
A State is not just an idea. Its a legal entity which exists in reality. So you've only demonstrated I am correct: between the abandonment of the territory by Turkey in the Treaty of Lausanne and the Declaration of Independence of Israel -- there was NO STATE in existence, making the entire territory terra nullius.
Unsubstantiated Israeli talking point.there was NO STATE in existence, making the entire territory terra nullius.