RE: Palestinian Talks, lectures, & interviews.
SUBTOPIC: Who are refugees? And what about the occupation?
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
You make comments like this quite frequently...
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Now, this is totally twisted around. This is a propaganda sound bite that appears to be deliberately intended to deceive the discussion group.
The control of the former Ottoman Empire Territory came into the hands by means of the outcome from WWI. The vast swath of Levant was relinquished by the former sovereign power into the hands of the Allied Powers at the conclusion of the conflict.
Article 16 • (Part I Political Clauses) • (Section I Territorial Clauses) • Treaty of Lausanne
"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."
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Citizenship Law was a necessity that was "granted" by the Mandate Power and pursuant to the
Foreign Jurisdiction Act of 1890. The Citizenship Law was to recognize (
by the Mandate Power as the competent of the Territory) under the Order in Council those people in residence as having both the "rights and obligations" which are attached to the possession of the nationality of that territory to which the Mandate for Palestine applied. The action was intended to prevent the condition of a "stateless person." The Citizenship Law was not applied at the point of a gun but applied without prejudice such treatment in accordance with the general principles of international law. It was with profound concern, as expressed by the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, in the San Remo Conference (1920) for the habitual residences to afford them "the widest exercise of the fundamental rights and freedoms" possible.
Most Respectfully,
R