P F Tinmore, et al,
The Great Philosophers and Zen Masters, in discussions with students --- seldom impart data or direct knowledge to the students. "Insight" and "enlightenment" are not a matter of memory or functions of language and mathematics. "Insight" and "enlightenment" is attainable by means of a formula or scrupulously following rules or directions. Instead, "insight" and "enlightenment" on the ability to adaptively think about individuals and the multiples, the local area, the global view, the solar community, the galactic constituents and the universe; orienting yourself to the conditions that present the "now." It is sometimes a need to find a wholly new way of making sense of the reality (U Yun Qin, ≈ 450 BCE). In the 17th Century, in a period of enlightenment, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz would come to call this the "Principle of Sufficient Reason" (PSR). You may not know or understand the progression or a reason for a specific event, but if it happened, then their was a chain of causality.
PSR is very applicable to the arguments presented about the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
(COMMENT)I have heard that a gazillion times but nobody has posted anything showing it to be true.The 1948 All Palestine Government (APG) Declaration of Independence which attempted to incorporate the sovereignty of Israel was then and is now "bogus."
I. Questions to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Transjordan, Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon:
(a) Are armed elements of your armed forces or irregular forces sponsored by your Government now operating
(1) in Palestine;
(2) in areas (towns, cities, districts) of Palestine where the Jews are in the majority?
The Answer: Page 418 Yearbook of the United Nations, 1947-1948
In its reply dated May 24 (S/775) the Arab Higher Committee stated in answer to question (a) that it exercised political authority over the overwhelming majority of the citizens of Palestine. Being composed of representatives of the different Arab political parties, it formed a coalition which expressed Arab public opinion in Palestine. The Arab Higher Committee concluded further that it therefore spoke in the name of the majority of all of Palestine, inasmuch as the Arabs were in the majority in all districts and sub-districts except that of Jaffa, in which Tel Aviv is located.
The Enlightenment: It cannot be the case that the All Palestine Government (APG) and the Arab Higher Committee (AHC) could simultaneously "exercised political authority over the overwhelming majority of the citizens of Palestine;" and that the AHC "spoke in the name of the majority of all of Palestine."
The reply of the Provisional Government of Israel (S/766) to the questions addressed to the "Jewish authorities in Palestine" was transmitted by the acting representative of Israel at the United Nations on May 22.The Answer: Page 418 Yearbook of the United Nations, 1947-1948
For Your Reference:In reply to questions (a) and (b) it was stated that the Provisional Government of Israel was actually exercising control of the entire area of the Jewish State as defined in the General Assembly's resolution of November 29, 1947. In addition, the Provisional Government of Israel was exercising control over certain parts of Palestine outside the territory of the State of Israel, parts which, with the notable exception of Jerusalem,
The Enlightenment:
• 1947-48 Part 1: United Nations. Section 3: The Security Council. Chapter D: Political and security questions Beginning Page 439
• 1948-49 Title Page i The Yearbook of the United Nations
∆ While your question may be interesting academically (only to a few), it applies no relevance to the reality as it was seen then by the Parties Involved. Clearly the APG was not a parties, but could be considered a limited constituency with no capacity.
(COMMENT)The right of self determination is the right of the people of the place. A state or government is not a requirement.Trying to argue this point is simply ridiculous. Even the APG itself was not real. That became obvious when the Egyptians dissolved the APG in 1959. Where was the right of self-determination then?
This is clearly an answer to a question, somewhere; but irrelevant to this discussion. The APG had no real constituency in the territory as a whole or in the sovereign control of Israel. The Arabs of Palestine were represented by the AHC.
"PART I.
"The consultations among the permanent members of the Security Council and informal communications with the Palestine Commission, the Mandatory Power, the Jewish Agency and the Arab Higher Committee, held since March 5, 1948, have developed the following facts regarding the situation with respect to Palestine:
"1. The Jewish Agency accepts the partition plan, considers it to be the irreducible minimum acceptable to the Jews, and insists upon the implementation of the plan without modification.
"2. The Arab Higher Committee rejects any solution based on partition in any form and considers that the only acceptable solution is the formation of one independent State for the whole of Palestine, whose constitution would be based on democratic principles and which would include adequate safeguards for minorities and the safety of the Holy Places.
"3. No modifications in the essentials of the partition plan are acceptable to the Jewish Agency, and no modifications would make the plan acceptable to the Arab Higher Committee.
"4. The Palestine Commission, the Mandatory Power, the Jewish Agency and the Arab Higher Committee have indicated that the partition plan cannot be implemented by peaceful means under present conditions.
"5. The Mandatory Power has confirmed that a considerable number of incursions of illegal arms and armed elements into Palestine have occurred by land and sea.
"6. The gradual withdrawal of the military forces of the Mandatory Power will, in the absence of agreement, result in increasing violence and disorder in Palestine. Warfare of a guerrilla type grows more violent constantly.
"7. If the mandate is terminated prior to a peaceful solution of the problem, large-scale fighting between the two communities can be expected.
The importance here is that immediately prior to the outbreak of hostilities, the principle players were the Palestine Commission, the Mandatory Power, the Jewish Agency and the Arab Higher Committee. The All-Palestine Government was not established by the Arab League until on 22 September 1948. "At its 200th meeting on 15 November, the First Committee decided, by a vote of 48 to none, with 5 abstentions, to grant a hearing to the Arab Higher Committee, in accordance with its request (A/C.1/335), to express the views of the Arabs of Palestine on the question of Palestine and on the report of the Mediator. The Committee, however, made no allusion to the credentials of the Higher Committee as representing the All-Palestine Government, as had been requested by the Higher Committee and the All-Palestine Government (A/C.1/339)." See UN Yearbook 1948-49 Part i, Section 3, Page 168)
Most Respectfully,
RThe importance here is that immediately prior to the outbreak of hostilities, the principle players were the Palestine Commission, the Mandatory Power, the Jewish Agency and the Arab Higher Committee.So what happened to the only Palestinian representation?
- Palestine Commission - Foreigners
- the Mandatory Power - Foreigners
- the Jewish Agency - Foreigners
- Arab Higher Committee - The only Palestinian body
When the Committee was outlawed in September 1937, six of its members were deported, its president Amin al-Husayni managed to escape arrest and went into exile in Beirut. Jamal al-Husayni escaped to Syria. Three other members were deported to the Seychelles, and other members moved into voluntary exile in neighbouring countries. Al-Hadi, who was out of the country at the time, was not allowed to return.
Arab Higher Committee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And your response will be a bunch of crap that foreigners did.
You're rather selective in your cutting and pasting. From the wiki article:
On 26 September 1937, the Acting British District Commissioner of Galilee, Lewis Yelland Andrews, was assassinated in Nazareth. The next day Britain outlawed the Arab Higher Committee,[9] and began to arrest its members. On 1 October 1937, the National Bloc, the Reform Party and the Istiqlal Party were dissolved.[10] Yaqub al-Ghusayn, Al-Khalidi and Ahmed Hilmi Pasha were arrested and then deported.[10] Jamal al-Husayni escaped to Syria, as did Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni. Amin al-Husayni managed to escape arrest, but was removed from the presidency of the Supreme Muslim Council.[11] The Committee was banned by the Mandate administration and three members (and two other Palestinian leaders) were deported to the Seychelles and the others moved into voluntary exile in neighbouring countries.[12] Awni Abd al-Hadi, who was out of the country at the time, was not allowed to return. The National Defence Party, which had withdrawn from the AHC soon after its formation, was not outlawed,
Who was responsible for the murder of Commissioner of Galilee, Lewis Yelland Andrews? Was it heavily armed, radical Lutherans?