"P F Tinmore, et al,
Well, there are a couple of issues in the evaluation here.
,"refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state:"
Do you mean the Zionist/Israeli attack against Palestine displacing 750,000 Palestinian civilians and taking their land?
(COMMENT)
Even though the Fourth Geneva Convention (GCIV)(1949) and the International Criminal Court (ICC)(2002) had NOT yet come into being, it is a still a matter of integrity (quality of the Jewish nation's character) to give proper consideration to the question.
The discussion of the "Displacement" and the "Right of Return," are tangential issues. It is based on the "Displacement" that the "Right of Return is claimed.
• Prior to May 1948, the applicability of the displacement was not attached as the displacement was not outside the territory formerly under the Mandate. It was all one territory.
• The 1948 Displacement, outside the territory declared independent - but inside the territory formerly under Mandate, the military advance, combat pursuit, and "Occupying Power may undertake total or partial evacuation of a given area if the security of the population or imperative military reasons so demand. Such evacuations may not involve the displacement of protected persons outside the bounds of the occupied territory except when for material reasons it is impossible to avoid such displacement." And in fact that displacement was not outside the territory outside the former under the Mandate; nor to any adjacent sovereignty.
The Hostile Arab Palestinians must act relatively soon to secure a peace. In another decade (2026), the probability of there will be any surviving Arab Palestinians that were former residents in the 1948 of Israel. It may only amount to a very small % of displaced persons ---- (probably) less than 20,000.
Most Respectfully,
R