How can Israel win territory when it didn't win the war?
How can Israel win territory when it didn't win the war?
How did it not win the war if it won territory and the Arab armies ran away defeated?
And besides, it is illegal to acquire territory through the threat or use of force.
LOL! Maybe you should cry to your mommy?
She'll get back the land for you that Israel acquired every time they beat Arab armies.
You are bouncing around like a football trying to avoid the issues.
The issue is that Arab armies invaded and lost and Israel held more territory after the invasion than before.
The big losers were the Arabs who decided they didn't want a state next to Israel.
How did that work out for the "Palestinians"?
Would they have been better off peacefully accepting half a loaf in 1948?
Will they end up with 20% of a loaf? Less? None?
Would they have been better off peacefully accepting half a loaf in 1948?
What would we say in the US if the UN wanted to give half of our country to colonial settlers?
Palestine didn't belong to the Arabs after WWI.
Try again?
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After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War, the empire's remaining Arab provinces were assigned by the newly created League of Nations to Britain and France as mandates, with Britain taking responsibility for Iraq, Palestine, and Transjordan, and France taking responsibility for Lebanon and Syria.
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The U.S. State Department Digest of International Law says that the terms of the Treaty of Lausanne provided for the application of the
principles of state succession to the "A" Mandates. The Treaty of Versailles (1920) provisionally recognized the former Ottoman communities as
independent nations.[23] It also required Germany to recognize the disposition of the former Ottoman territories and to recognize the
new states laid down within their boundaries.[24] The terms of the Treaty of Lausanne required the
newly created states that acquired the territory detached from the Ottoman Empire to pay annuities on the Ottoman public debt and to assume responsibility for the administration of concessions that had been granted by the Ottomans. The treaty also let the
States acquire, without payment, all the property and possessions of the Ottoman Empire situated within their territory.[25] The treaty provided that the League of Nations was responsible for establishing an arbital court to resolve disputes that might arise and stipulated that its decisions were final.
A disagreement regarding the legal status and the portion of the annuities to be paid by the "A" mandates was settled when an Arbitrator ruled that some of the mandates contained
more than one State:The difficulty arises here how one is to regard the Asiatic countries under the British and French mandates. Iraq is a Kingdom in regard to which Great Britain has undertaken responsibilities equivalentto those of a Mandatory Power. Under the British mandate,
Palestine and Transjordan have each an entirely separate organisation. We are, therefore,
in the presence of three States sufficiently separate to be considered as distinct Parties. France has received a single mandate from the Council of the League of Nations, but in the countries subject to that mandate, one can distinguish two distinct States: Syria and the Lebanon, each State possessing its own constitution and a nationality clearly different from theother.
Mandate, an authorization granted by the League of Nations to a member nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony. After the defeat of Germany and Ottoman Turkey in World War I, their colonies, which were judged not yet ready to govern themselves, were distributed among the victorious...
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