P F Tinmore,
et al,
This certainly doesn't have a ring of truth to it.
The Palestinians did not need to "create" a state. You do not hear of Palestinians wanting to "create" a state.
Resolution 181 was about the Palestinians giving half of their country to foreigners.
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These are diametrically opposed ideas.
If the Palestinians did not need to create a state, then how can they have any question on "giving half of their country?" That presupposes that they have a country which even your own citation on Humanitarian Law opposes.
No, deductively, there is something wrong here.
What did Britain do to have an elected government in 25 years of mandate?
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The "right of self-determination" is about the population doing for themselves. Not having someone do it for them. In the quarter century before the vote and implementation of the Resolution, all the Arab-Palestinians did was create havoc, chaos and open revolt.
The Jewish contingent built, almost from scratch, a government, and over time gradually achieved some measure of autonomy.
Don't blame the Mandatory for the inability of the Arab-Palestinian in its shortcomings to exercise "self-determination" and establish its own democratic processes (elections).
Most Respectfully,
R