RE: Palestine Today
※→ P F Tinmore, et al,
Let's get one thing straight right now
(in regards to the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip • WB-J-GS). The Israel Defense Force (IDF) did not move forward and place any Arab Palestinian territory under its occupation. Over time, the ground-truth conditions evolved until it became politically acceptable to express the evolving situation in that way.
◈ The IDF established very necesssary and effective control over the certain territory • which were in 1948 • territories once held under mandate and transitioning into the International Trustee System (ITS). This assumption of control was made necessary to defend against the Forces of the Arab League taking control of the entirety of the Territory Formerly Under the Mandate for Palestine and which included those lands in which the Israelis declared independence; and assume Article 1 Authority (Montevideo Convention 1933) with regards to their independence. In 1948, the Arab Palestinians did not have any political authority over any of the Territory Formerly Under the Mandate for Palestine.
◈ In the period immediately proceeding the 1948 Conflict, the Arab Higher Committee rejected the territory alloted and adopted by the UN. So, the Arab Palestinians never establish any actual functioning government and political authority over any territory.
◈ So! At that point, as recorded in the various Armistice Agreements of 1949, the Arab Palestinians of that period were under the political authority of either Israel, Jordan, or Egypt. But NO faction of the Arab Palestinians were a party to the Armistice.
◈ In 1967, with regards to the WB-J-GS, Israeli engagement with Arab League Forces lead to a complex territorial control. For the WB-J, Israel had effective control, but the territory was under the political soveriengty of Jordan. For the GS, Israel had effective control, but the territory was still considered a political protectorate of Egypt. So! Under Article 42 of the Hague Regulation, once the actually territory was placed under the authority of the IDF, it became either Egyptian territory occupied by the IDF - or - Jordanian territory occupied by the IDF.
In 1974, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) became the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in any Palestinian territory that is liberated. From that point the PLO Palestinian territory that is liberated.
◈ This situation remained stable until 1979 and the Israelis and the Egyptian concluded a Peace Treaty and the Egyptians relinquished any authority pertaining to the GS.
◈ In 1988, Jordan exercies what it termed as "cutting all ties" with the WB-J. This amounted to a political abandonment of the WB-J. By default, the country maintaining effective control over the WB-J (israel) became the political authority.
◈ That same year (1988) the PLO, sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, but over what territory was confusing.
◈ In 1993 and 1995, the Oslo Accords were signed between the PLO and the State of Israel. This ultimately lead to the unilateral withdraw by the Israelis from the GS in 2005. At that point, the GS, by the agreed upon conditions, became the Political Authority over the Gaza Strip.
◈ The All Palestine Government never had independent control over any of the territories it claims.
Are you saying that an occupation voids peoples rights?
(COMMENT)
ANSWER: Occupation is a term defined by the Hague Regulation. It is actually a place under the authority of the IDF and makes the IDF take all the measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety.
Other than the Gaza Strip, which in only the very loose sense, is the only
Palestinian territory that is liberated.
By Agreement, the PLO/PA became responsible for complete civil and security control by the
within Area "A."

Most Respectfully,
R