RE: BREAKING: The UN concludes that Israel has established an APARTHEID REGIME...
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Well, you have scambled the intent of my comment once again.
Within the membership of the League (alla 1919), the general understanding of what was meant by "civil and religious rights;" and were not codified.
In 1922, the only rights under international scrutiny were the "civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion."
The Balfour Declaration mentioned civil, religious, and political rights. Interesting that they would mention rights that you claim did not exist. The Jews would have all the rights where the political rights of the Palestinians got the axe.
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In the first half of the 20th Century, the Arab Palestinians and the Jewish immigrant that became citizens, had exactly the same rights.
The international political intent was to create a Jewish National Home in the carve-out determined by the Allied Powers.
What you are attempting to imply is that the Jewish Immigrant turned citizen, somehow took away some "rights" of the Arab Palestinian.
As human and civil rights evolved, the new concept of these rights were just as applicable to the Jewish Immigrant as they were to the Arab Palestinian.
Where did Britain get the authority to negate the rights of a people who were, at that time, under the sovereignty of another country?
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The Mandate Authority did NOT negate any rights of the Arab Palestinian; nor did the Mandate Authority deal with any sovereignty exercising control over the territory --- as defined by the Allied Powers.
If you know of another country that had sovereign power over the territory as defined and placed under the Mandate, please point that sovereign authority out to me. And please don't use that phony argument that the sovereignty rests with the people. While the right to sovereignty extends to all people, territorial sovereign authority means something different.
Dr. WALID ABDULRAHIM said:
Sovereignty in regard to a territory is known as territorial sovereignty. Territorial Sovereignty is the right of a State to exercise over its own territory, to the exclusion of any other States, the functions of a State. It has a positive and a negative aspect. The first aspect relates to the exclusivity of the right of the State with regard to its own territory, while the second aspect refers to the obligation to protect the rights of other States.
SOURCE: Private Site for Legal Research and Studies •
The Mandate was not to acquire sovereignty or territory. It was to render administrative assistance and advice, and in the best interest of the people, bring the inhabitants to independence. However, Britain ruled like a military occupation with no regard for the rights of the people.
Britain was too stupid to figure out why they had problems.
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There is a certain amount of truth to what you say. But the backlash had more to do with the inhabitants of the formerly Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (OETA) not cooperating with the Mandate Authority than any other single factor. And to this day, the belligerent attitude and incompetent leadership of the Arab Palestinians → has brought them to the geopolitical and economic conditions now being experienced. And each time the Arab Palestinians attempt to use threats of force, → actual Jihadism, Aggressive Fedayeen Action, Hostile Insurgency Operations, Radicalized Islamic Behaviors, and Asymmetric Violence, → or enlist the aid of Persian Gulf Benefactors → or rally the resources of regional Arab League members, the end-result is they come-out in a worse position than their initial starting point.
If there is a band within the given situation that can be described as lacking intelligence or common sense (stupid), it is the inhabitants of the formerly Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
(Arab Palestinians). The British Administration, right up to the very moment that the Mandate ended, attempted to render political-diplomatic assistance. Even the US is making that very same mistake today. But many in the US have come to the conclusion that the irreconcilable conflict between the two principles:
✪ Jews the essential point is the creation of sustainable and defendable sovereign Jewish State.
✪ Arabs, the point is to resist the establishment of Jewish sovereignty within the historical limits of the Palestine Order in Council (1922); the territory to which the Mandate for Palestine applied, → Palestine..
The Arab Palestinians hold the "all or nothing" position.
Most Respectfully,
R