The wording of the September 22, 1948 communique from the Arabs, stipulates Palestine (all of Old Palestine) in its entirety and within its previously defined borders (not that it had any to call its own, given that it never existed as a polity, prior to that time)."...The Palestinians did not declare independence on any Israeli territory so I don't see where timing is an issue."
Given that the Jews of Old Palestine had seized and claimed a portion of Old Palestine by which to comprise their own new State of Israel, by the time of the September 22, 1948 Arab Declaration, a sizable percentage of the land referenced therein was no longer theirs to claim.
Jewish-owned lands and others seized in brawls and fighting with the Arabs became, de facto, the lands of the new State of Israel - built on the bleached bones of part of Old Palestine.
Victory on the battlefield (being defined as holding off the Arab League and keeping the lands they had been holding) reaffirmed such Jewish claims.
Acceptance of this fait accompli by the UN in 1949 lent a considerable air of legitimacy to such a stance.
The passage of time has affirmed the stance as the operative state of affairs amongst those living in the Real World.
Indeed.Jewish-owned lands and others seized in brawls and fighting with the Arabs became, de facto, the lands of the new State of Israel
The Palestinians declared independence inside their long held international borders.
There was no clash.
Here we go again twisted old documents and biased Palestinian academicals that have made a livlehood out of "proving" that Palestine had a nation and borders because of the treaty of Lausanne that never even mentioned Palestine.
More egg on your face when you come up with the bullshit LIES, or do you have a new source of information.
