P F Tinmore, et al,
You are not reading very well.
The Avalon Project Egyptian-Israeli General Armistice Agreement February 24 1949
2. The Armistice Demarcation Line is not to be construed in any sense as a political or territorial boundary,...
...of this Agreement; and elsewhere shall not violate the
international frontier;...
2. This withdrawal shall begin on the day after that which follows the signing of this Agreement, at 0500 hours GMT, and shall be beyond the
Egypt-Palestine frontier.
And more specific about land.
BTW, there was no mention of a place called Israel. No land or borders for Israel were mentioned either.
(COMMENT)
First --- all the armistice arrangements were between Israel and one of the 4 Aggressor Arab Nations.
Each Armistice Arrangement has an official title and identifies the parties to the agreement.
- General Armistice Agreement between Egypt and Israel;
- TITLE: EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI: GENERAL ARMISTICE AGREEMENT
- SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT
- SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL
- General Armistice Agreement between Lebanon and Israel;
- TITLE: LEBANESE-ISRAELI: GENERAL ARMISTICE AGREEMENT
- SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF LEBANON
- SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL
- General Armistice Agreement between the Hashemite Jordan Kingdom and Israel;
- TITLE: HASHEMITE JORDAN KINGDOM - ISRAEL: GENERAL ARMISTICE AGREEMENT
- SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HASHEMITE JORDAN KINGDOM
- SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL
- General Armistice Agreement between Israel and Syria.
- TITLE: SYRIA-ISRAELI: GENERAL ARMISTICE AGREEMENT
- SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA
- SIGNED FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL
The Armistice lines were converted into borders between
Egypt and Israel by their Peace Treaty of 1979 and between
Jordan and Israel by their Peace Treaty of 1994. Jordan, however, had renounced in 1988 all legal and administrative ties to the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which Israel had captured from Jordan in the 1967 war, so their disposition was not included in the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty.
No peace treaties have been signed between Israel and Syria and Israel and Lebanon. The
de facto dividing line between Israel and Lebanon is the “blue” line demarcated by the UN after Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in 2000; and the line between Israel and Syria is the line around the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967.
(The line was amended in the 1974 disengagement agreement between Israel and Syria following the 1973 war.)
During the course of the Armistice arrangements of 1949 (February thru July 1949), the only "Palestine" there was --- was the territory to which the British Mandate formerly applied. There was no Arab sovereignty as the opportunity had been rejected. By the time the last of the Armistice Arrangements were signed, the Security Council had recommended admission to the UN
(S/RES/69) (Mar 1949), and the General Assembly had adopted and admitted Israel to the UN
(A/RES/273 III) (May 1949).
(It took the Arab Palestinians another 4 decades to accopmlish half of what the Israelis accomplished, and are still not able to stand alone as required by Article 22.) Since that time, various elements of the pro-Arab Palestinian Community have attempted to assert that because the term "Palestine" was used and went unchanged after the Mandate terminated, that there must have been a country called "Palestine." And to an extent the successor government to the Mandatory was the UN Palestine Commission --- with the
adopted resolution
(A/RES/189 S-2) providing for the appointment of a United Nations Mediator in Palestine, which relieves the United Nations Palestine Commission from the further exercise of its responsibilities.
"The view was also expressed that the two resolutions passed by the General Assembly on 14 May reaffirmed partition. The
resolution calling for the appointment of a Mediator implied two parties, and two parties implied partition. Likewise, the
other resolution, expressing appreciation of the General Assembly for the work performed by the Commission in pursuance of the mandate given to it last November, also could be interpreted as
reaffirming partition."
Most Respectfully,
R