RE: Palestinian Talks, lectures, & interviews.
SUBTOPIC: Arab Palestinian Existence
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
The Mandatory did not just duck-out. The British left because the cost of doing business in the region was simply too high.
Actually I said that the UN ducked out. Of course Britain ducked out too. They created more problems for themselve than they knew how to handle. If they would have followed the LoN Covenant, they could have been in and out of there in 10 years or so. Instead they were there for 30 years and didn't accomplish shit. They started a hundred year (and counting) war then cut and run.
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Once the UN was activated, the Mandatory was answerable to the UN International Trusteeship System. The UN Activated in 1945. That would be three years before the termination. At the time f the termination, the UN was already the driving political body. And the principal nations behind were the five permanent members of the Security Council, all of whom were the Principle Allied Powers who had fought the war.
One of the key features that were desire:
Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant said:
The best method of giving practical effect to this principle is that the tutelage of such peoples should be entrusted to advanced nations who by reason of their resources, their experience or their geographical position can best undertake this responsibility, and who are willing to accept it, and that this tutelage should be exercised by them as Mandatories on behalf of the League.
SOURCE:
League of Nations Covenant
Later in 1923, a third attempt was made to establish an institution through which the Arab population of Palestine could be brought into cooperation with the government. The Arab Palestinians made it clear that they had no desire for the establishment of an Arab Agency on the same basis as the Jewish Agency.
On a similar note, the UN Palestine Commission sent an invitation to the Arab Higher Committee in January 1948 to join in the establishment of self-governing institutions. The response was as expected.
“ARAB HIGHER COMMITTEE IS DETERMINED PERSIST IN REJECTION PARTITION
AND IN REFUSAL RECOGNIZE UNO RESOLUTION THIS RESPECT AND ANYTHING
DERIVING THEREFROM. FOR THESE REASONS IT IS UNABLE ACCEPT INVITATION”
It is NOT the fault of the British Administration that the Arab Palestinians intentionally failed to cooperate in the tutelage or participation in self-government. I realize that it is not an uncommon response for the pro-Palestinian camp to play the part of the victim. But clearly, on this matter, it is simply NOT THE CASE.
Most Respectfully,
R