P F Tinmore
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Indeed, and "effective control" is a term that defines a military occupation.P F Tinmore, toastman, et al,
This is a matter of practical semantics and political rhetoric. The Arab Military Forces (Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, and Egypt), the Arab Palestinians indigenous (irregular militia of the Arab Higher Committee), and the Jewish Forces [Jewish Brigade formed during WWII, and their irregular forces (the Haganah, the Palmach, and the Irgun --- folded into the new Israeli Defense Force (IDF)] now declared independent and sovereign Israel, all had a slightly different perspective on the situation in mid-May 1948. And these varying perspective account for the differing interpretation of events in their individual realities.
Today, the word "conquer" is probably not the best choice of words.
(ESPECIALLY FOR P F Tinmore) When the last of the Mandatory (UK) Forces departed on the midnight between 14 May and 15 May, it left behind an unusual set of conditions behind --- in its wake. And I should, give credit to P F Tinmore's previous attempts to bring this out. The Successor Government for the withdrawing UK Mandatory was the UN Palestine Commission (UNPC). However --- by UK demand, the UNPC was not to arrive and take up Administration until the withdraw was complete (political end-fighting). But on the Morning of 15 May, Arab Military Forces simultaneously crossed their respective borders and engaged Israeli Forces. Thus, the Israeli War of Independence was on --- and the UN was in the process of replacing the UNPC (Lake Success, New York) with yet another successor government --- Count Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator, appointed by the General Assembly on the same day as the five Arab nations invaded.
Within weeks of the escalated conflict, Israel had occupied most of the territory formerly cover by the Mandate, with the exception of the "West Bank" of the Jordan, and the Gaza Strip, held by Egyptian forces.Mitchell Bard said:Excerpts: The 1948 War:
Violence in the Holy Land broke out almost immediately after the UN announced partition on November 29, 1947. Jamal Husseini, the Arab Higher Committee's spokesman, had told the UN prior to the partition vote the Arabs would drench "the soil of our beloved country with the last drop of our blood . . .
Arabs Take Responsibility
The UN blamed the Arabs for the violence. The UN Palestine Commission was never permitted by the Arabs or British to go to Palestine to implement the resolution. On February 16, 1948, the Commission reported to the Security Council:
Powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside Palestine, are defying the resolution of the General Assembly and are engaged in a deliberate effort to alter by force the settlement envisaged therein.The Arabs were blunt in taking responsibility for starting the war. Jamal Husseini told the Security Council on April 16, 1948:
Para 3c, A/AC.21/9 S/676 16 February 1948
The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight.Security Council Official Records, Special Supplement, (1948), p. 20.
Security Council Official Records, S/Agenda/58, (April 16, 1948), p. 19.
(COMMENT)Palestine had no army.Did you not read my post ?? Palestinian also fought against Israel n that war. They didn't conquer Palestinian land. They conquered land allotted to the Palestinians ...
There was no country of Palestine, with Arab Sovereignty. Autonomy had been rejected as unsatisfactory by the AHC. There were Arab Palestinians, but they declined to establish an "Arab State;" and failed to take by force the whole of the territory formally covered by the Mandate. At the signing of the last Armistice Agreement, there was no territory that was not already under the effective control of either Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
Most Respectfully,
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In 1949 the UN divided Palestine into three areas of military occupation with the armistice lines that were specifically not to be political or territorial boundaries.
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