You need to read up on the mandate for Palestine. During the mandate period, the Zionists had almost free reign to create a state within a state. Meanwhile any Palestinian organization attempting to create their own independence was banned. Their leaders were imprisoned, exiled, and sometimes killed...
That's what the Palestinians get, for rebelling against the LoN -authorized British Mandate, in the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt.
They phukked that one up and lost that one too, hugely.
Dumbasses and incompetents.
The Brits were no longer willing to trust the Palestinians by that time.
The Palestinians just can't get along very well with anyone, never mind the Jews.
An obnoxious, intransigent low-brow folk.
...Any action of the Palestinians toward independence has been trampled be illegal external interference.
Mad dogs need to be kept in kennels.
Even the Brits knew this.
Given present collaboration with Israel on blockading and containment, it looks like even the Egyptians and Jordanians have come to their sense, and come to realize the truth behind the mad-dog and kennels talk.
"The Palestine Mandate was invalid on three grounds set out hereinafter.
"1. The first ground of invalidity of the Mandate is that by endorsing the Balfour Declaration and accepting the concept of the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine it violated the sovereignty of the people of Palestine and their natural rights of independence and self-determination. Palestine was the national home of the Palestinians from time immemorial. The establishment of a national home for an alien people in that country was a violation of the legitimate and fundamental rights of the inhabitants. The League of Nations did not possess the power, any more than the British Government did, to dispose of Palestine, or to grant to the Jews any political or territorial rights in that country. In so far as the Mandate purported to recognize any rights for alien Jews in Palestine, it was null and void.
"2. The second ground of invalidity of the Mandate is that it violated, in spirit and in letter, Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, under the authority of which it purported to be made. The Mandate violated Article 22 in three respects:
"(a) The Covenant had envisaged the Mandate as the best method of achieving its basic objective of ensuring the well-being and development of the peoples inhabiting the Mandated Territories.
"Was the Palestine Mandate conceived for the well-being and development of the inhabitants of Palestine? The answer is found in the provisions of the Mandate itself. The Mandate sought the establishment in Palestine of a national home for another people, contrary to the rights and wishes of the Palestinians ... It required the Mandatory to place the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as would secure the establishment of a Jewish national home. It required the Mandatory to facilitate Jewish immigration into Palestine. It provided that a foreign body known as the Zionist Organization should be recognized as a public body for the purpose of advising and co-operating with the Administration of Palestine in matters affecting the establishment of the Jewish national home. It is clear that, although the Mandates System was conceived in the interest of the inhabitants of the Mandated Territory, the Palestine Mandate was conceived in the interest of an alien people originating from outside Palestine, and ran counter to the basic concept of mandates. As Lord Islington observed when he opposed the inclusion of the Balfour Declaration in the Palestine Mandate: "The Palestine Mandate is a real distortion of the mandatory system". The same distinguished Lord added:
"When one sees in Article 22 ... that the well-being and development of such peoples should form a sacred trust of civilization, and when one takes that as the note of the mandatory system, I think your Lordships will see that we are straying down a very far path when we are postponing self-government in Palestine until such time as the population is flooded with an alien race."
- See more at:
The Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem - CEIRPP, DPR study, part I: 1917-1947 (30 June 1978)