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Ownership (property and land) is a much different thing than Sovereignty. It doesn't matter who owned the land; but rather, who had sovereignty over the land.
For 800 years, the Ottoman Empire had sovereignty (independent authority over a territory to rule and make laws over they land). It was not an occupation.
After the Empire, the territory came under Mandate; again not occupation. Under the Mandate, the Mandatory had authority over a territory to rule and make laws over they land.
None of this changed the ownership of the land. P F Tinmore's assertion or implication that the Palestinian's owned the land has absolutely no relevance to who full powers of legislation (make laws) and of administration (authority over) the territory.
The key reason that this is so important to the Hostile Arab-Palestinian (HoAP) is because it fundamental to their argument that the land was taken from them. The land (ownership) was never taken from them (1920 - 1947) until the outbreak of general hostilities after the passage of the the Resolution 181(II) initiated by the HoAP and the Arab League (and even that is questionable).
Most Respectfully,
R
You are still trying to smokescreen the issue of who owns a country by the private ownership of pieces of land.
The French own France. The Brits own Britain. The Mexicans own Mexico. The Palestinians own Palestine. Any private ownership of land inside those defined territories is irrelevant. Even people who do not own any land are owners of their country collectively.
These are the people who have the inherent right to self determination, without external interference, inside their defined territory.
Palestine is the poster child of illegal external interference.
Palestine was born under British occupation. A name change from occupation to mandate was meaningless. The LoN Covenant called for mandates to assist the people to independence.
Britain did not do that. It kicked the Palestinians to the curb and catered to the interests of foreigners at the behest of those foreigners. This was outside of their authority as the mandate. Britain violated the LoN Covenant, violated international legal norms, and violated the Palestinian's inalienable rights.
Violating a people's rights do not negate those rights. The Palestinians still have the right to self determination, without external interference, inside their defined territory.