RE: Palestine Today
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et al,
These are related questions of the same family tree.
Israel's claim to the land is based upon a fairy tale.
The international decision-making processes is responsible for the bad fruit. What basis did it have for granting Israel any land?
(COMMENT)
After the cessation of hostilities of the Great War
(the guns come to a halt gradually) and political remnants began to solidify out of the four Great Empires that collapsed and fell
[Imperial German (Kaiser Wilhelm II), Imperial Russian (Tsar Nicholas II), Ottoman Empire,(Sultan Abdulmejid II, Caliph), & Austro-Hungarian (Karl Franz Joseph)], the Allied Powers presented the Treaty of Sevres to the Ottoman Empire/Turkish Republic. The treaty was accepted and signed by:
※ Senator and General HAADI Pasha;
※ Senator RIZA TEVFIK Bey;
※ Minister RECHAD HALISS Bey, Special Envoy and Ambassador of Turkey at Berne;
However, the Treaty was rejected by
Field Marshal Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and at the conclusion of the Turkish War of Independence, Field Marshal Atatürk, founded the new Republic. The Treaty of Sevres was never ratified by the Turkish Senate (ie President Atatürk), and a new Treaty (the Treaty of Lausanne) was concocted.
The applicable paragraph in the Treaty of Sevres:
• SECTION XIII. - GENERAL PROVISIONS. ARTICLE 132 •
Outside her frontiers as fixed by the present Treaty Turkey hereby renounces in favour of the Principal Allied Powers all rights and title which she could claim on any ground over or concerning any territories outside Europe which are not otherwise disposed of by the present Treaty.
Turkey undertakes to recognise and conform to the measures which may be taken now or in the future by the Principal Allied Powers, in agreement where necessary with third Powers, in order to carry the above stipulation into effect.
This essentially replaces the Armistice of Mudros, which was considered the Surrender of the Ottoman Empire and the conclusion of that theater of the Great War.
After the Armistice went into effect, the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (OETA) took responsibility and relinquished it on July 1920 to the Civil Administration which would become the authority, under which the Mandate for Palestine would be assigned.
Upon establishment of the new Republic, President Atatürk, accepted the negotiated terms of the Treaty. The applicable paragraph in the Treaty of Lausanne:
• SECTION I - TERRITORIAL CLAUSES - ARTICLE 16 •
Turkey hereby renounces all rights and title whatsoever over or respecting the territories situated outside the frontiers laid down in the present Treaty and the islands other than those over which her sovereignty is recognised by the said Treaty, the future of these territories and islands being settled or to be settled by the parties concerned.
The provisions of the present Article do not prejudice any special arrangements arising from neighbourly relations which have been or may be concluded between Turkey and any limitrophe countries.
While the wording is different, the effect was essentially the same. The "rights and title whatsoever over or respecting the territories" were relinquished to the Allied Powers. This is the "basis did it have for granting Israel any land." The sovereign over the former territory of the Ottoman Empire renounced the Title and Rights to the Allied Powers by Treaty
(one sovereign to a collective of sovereigns).
I hope this answered your questions
Most Respectfully,
R