What makes you believe that "Palestine" was a country and not simply a region, as it was?
Why is it so difficult for you to understand the difference between a region and a country?
The Appalachians is a region. Not a country.
The Iberian Peninsula is a region. Not a country.
The Arabian Peninsula is a region. Not a country.
Palestine was NEVER a country, a Nation for any people, with a capital anywhere in it. It is not mentioned as a nation/country ANYWHERE in History.
Understand the difference between what is considered a region, and what truly is a country.
Decisions of international and national tribunals
The U.S. State Department
Digest of International Law says that the terms of the
Treaty of Lausanne provided for the application of the principles of state succession to the
"A" Mandates. The
Treaty of Versailles (1920) provisionally recognized the former Ottoman communities as independent nations. It also required Germany to recognize the disposition of the former Ottoman territories and to recognize the new states laid down within their boundaries. The
Treaty of Lausanne required the newly created states that acquired the territory to pay annuities on the Ottoman public debt, and to assume responsibility for the administration of concessions that had been granted by the Ottomans. A dispute regarding the status of the territories was settled by an Arbitrator appointed by the Council of the
League of Nations.
It was decided that Palestine and Transjordan were newly created states according to the terms of the applicable post-war treaties. In its
Judgment No. 5, The Mavrommatis Palestine Concessions, the
Permanent Court of International Justice also decided that
Palestine was responsible as the successor state for concessions granted by Ottoman authorities. The Courts of Palestine and Great Britain decided that title to the properties shown on the Ottoman Civil list had been ceded to the government of
Palestine as an allied successor state.
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This is not the original documents regarding the Mandate for Palestine from 1917 to 1920 by the Allied Forces.
This is the Palestinian Authority, in the "West Bank", in Ramallah, deciding to name the PA, the "State of Palestine", which has not been recognized by the United Nations as a country.
Why?
Because they have not shown proof that they can become a separate State on their own and sustain it.....on their own.
Look at their finances. They depend on everyone who will "donate" them money.
They can call themselves a State all they like.
As long as it is not recognized by the UN (and being an "Observer State' does not count).....
It does not a country make.
So, what part of my post is incorrect?
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In a broader international legal context,
the “Nationality law... showed that the Palestinians formed a nation, and that Palestine was a State, though provisionally under guardianship”. The inclusion of Palestinian nationality in the text of the Palestine Mandate was the first step towards an international recognition of the Palestinian people as distinct from the Ottomans and other peoples.
Indeed, Palestinian nationality, like any other nationality, constituted the legal bond which connected individuals to collectively form a people as an element of a state.
https://doc.rero.ch/record/9065/files/these.pdf
The above is a thesis written in 2007.
Not a legal document. Not the Mandate for Palestine.
Not from the League of Nations or the United Nations.
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présentée à l'Université de Genève
pour l'obtention
du grade de Docteur en relations internationales (droit international)
[ Thesis
Presented at the University of Geneva
For the obtaining of the Degree in Doctor of International Relations.]
As closely as I can translate it.
Not a legal document.
So now that you have done the propaganda ploy of criticizing the source, what problem do you have with the issues? Show some proof that I am incorrect.
What were the issues?
Was Palestine granted Statehood in the San Remo Accords? No
Did the Arabs accept a State in 1937? No
Did the Arabs Accept a State in 1947 during the UN Partition? No
Did they accept a State in 2000? No
Did they accept a State in 2008? No
This thesis was written in 2007 alleging that Palestine is a State. Recognized by the United Nations? Isn't that what it says?
What about the subject and pages of the thesis is true, then?
The writer keeps referring to "Palestine", and not the Mandate for Palestine.
"B. De facto Palestinian nationality" it says in the thesis.
Which future nationality would that be.
The Mandate was for the recreation of a Jewish Homeland.
The Jews had not chosen the word Palestine for their nationality.
Palestine was a name chosen by the British, instead of Israel, in order
to upset the Jews, just as the Romans had done in 135 CE.
The Ottoman Tanzimats and the Constitution
" These were followed by a succession of laws regulating the status of "Ottoman affiliation" (meaning citizenship) in 1869,"
The Ottoman Empire was trying to modernize. So it created the above.
But it did not last long, it was starting to fall apart and lost in 1917 for getting involved with Germany in WWI.
If everyone who lived in the area could achieve citizenship, I have to wonder why
all who were there at the time of the Mandate were not called Ottoman citizens, to begin with.
The Arabs, once the Empire fell, did not see themselves as Ottoman citizens.
They saw themselves as part of Greater Syria. They wanted the whole of the Mandate for Palestine to become part of Syria.
That is why the extreme leaders led riot after riot against the Jews becoming sovereign on any part of it.
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The Jews who were to create a State in the Mandate of Palestine, had not yet chosen the name of their nationality, as they did in 1948 when they finally became independent. They chose Israeli.
The Arab leaders only chose a nationality for their people, in what was left of the Mandate, Gaza and Jordanian occupied "West Bank", in 1964 when Arafat was in Moscow and along with the KGB devised taking the Palestinian nationality for their cause.
Yes, everyone was a Palestinian during the Mandate until May 14th, 1948, when the Mandate expired with the British giving it up and leaving the area.
All who lived there were called Palestinians, but it was not a Nationality, as it was not chosen by those the Mandate had been intended.
The Jews were to have all of the Mandate for Palestine to recreate what had been theirs. That includes TranJordan.
It was not to be as the British gave that part to the newly transplanted from Arabia, the Hashemite clan.
What remained, on the west side of the Jordan, was to become the State for the Jews.
All the Arabs living in that area would have been given an Israeli Nationality, as it is today, once the State was created. Just as the three other Mandates had done, once they were declared States.
The extreme Arabs refused to allow the Jews to have their own State.
They lost the war they started in 1948. And all others.
And continue to not accept a State of Israel amidst all the Arab countries.
Jordan and Egypt signed a Peace Treaty.
Israel is waiting for the PA and Hamas to do the same.
That is the difference, if you can begin to understand it.