P F Tinmore,
et al,
Of course there are opposing views.
P F Tinmore,
et al,
I totally disagree.
Where does Palestine fit into this description?
- (1) a permanent population;
- P F Tinmore: The vast majority of Palestinians can trace their ancestry back hundreds of years.
- (2 )a defined territory;
- P F Tinmore: Palestine has had international borders dating back to post WWI treaties.
- (3 )a government and
- P F Tinmore: About 80 Palestinian political leaders formed a government and declared independence in 1948.
- (4) the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
- P F Tinmore: Due to illegal external interference (foreign military occupation) the government has had little power to do anything.
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The Arab-Palestinian has been the aggressor from the beginning.
Most Respectfully,
R
Where am I incorrect?
Did the Arab-Palestinian aggression start when they went to Europe and attacked the Zionists?




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Perspective!
- (1) a permanent population;
- P F Tinmore: The vast majority of Palestinians can trace their ancestry back hundreds of years.
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The historical longevity of the Hostile Arab-Palestinian (HoAP) in residence
(indigenous population) does not have anything to do with "self-governing control or authority," "sovereignty," or "territorial independence." In this case, the HoAP uses this argument merely as an expression of sympathy in the projection of the perpetual image of a victim.
The HoAP (indigenous people) have suffered from historic injustices as a result of their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources for two millennium. The HoAP have no real history of ever having "self-governing control or authority," "sovereignty," or "territorial independence." This inability and lack of capacity "self-governing control or authority," has prevented them from exercising their right to development in accordance with their own wants and needs.
- (2 )a defined territory;
- P F Tinmore: Palestine has had international borders dating back to post WWI treaties.
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There is no "State of Palestine" had only boundaries that were administratively set by the Allied Powers from 1916 to 1948. These boundaries were set to facilitate divisional control between controls of authority the French Mandate and the British Mandate; and subdivisions within each. They were not geo-political boundaries between territories occupied or the formerly enemy occupied territory of the Ottoman Empire.
In the case of "Palestine;" an administrative designation recognize by the Ottoman/Turk Empire and the successors (the Allied Powers) stretched to Mesopotamia (Iraq); a straight line border surveyed and established by the post-War Mandatory (UK), was something different from what the HoAP consider today. By previous arrangement with the Royal Family to HM the King of the Hejaz, approximately three-quarters of the territory was allocated to the Hashemite Kingdom, administered through the Mandate of Palestine. At no time did the Ottomans or the Allied Powers establish a State of Palestine.
- (3 )a government and
- P F Tinmore: About 80 Palestinian political leaders formed a government and declared independence in 1948.
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This All-Palestine Government established by the Arab League on 22 September 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, was "after the fact" to the establishment of the "State of Israel" in May 1948; under the recommendation of the General Assembly. It was not recognized because the State of Israel had already been established over the same territory.
- (4) the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
- P F Tinmore: Due to illegal external interference (foreign military occupation) the government has had little power to do anything.
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The "illegal external interference" was on the part of the "Arab League"
(combined Arab armies totaled no more than 25,000 troops; including 10,000 Egyptian troops, 4,500 Transjordanian troops and perhaps 3,000 troops from Palestine itself, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon respectively) and not the Israelis operating under the recognition of the implementing authority of the UN Security Council. At the Armistice, the Occupation Powers were "Egypt," which occupied the Gaza Strip, and the "Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan," which occupied the West Bank and portions of Jerusalem. These two occupations prevented the indigenous population exercising the right of self-determination over the lands, territories and resources to strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs.
The claim that post-1967 Israeli Occupation has given the HoAP "little power to do anything" is not exactly accurate. The HoAP declare independence in 1988
(exercising the right of self-determination), a step that could not have been achieved under Egyptian Occupation or Jordanian Annexation.
Most Respectfully,
R