Saudi prince: Maybe the Palestinians should’ve taken the deals they were offered
※→ Billo_Really,
et al,
If the Arab Palestinian is disenfranchised, it is a political self-inflected wound.
As long as you didn't disenfranchise the indigenous, non-Jewish population. Which is exactly what you did. And no, you were not given the entire area.
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Territorial sovereignty wise, the territory was an "Article 16" matter for the Allied Powers
(the future of these territories and islands being settled or to be settled by the parties concerned); NOT a matter for the people once considered subjects under the purview of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
(British military administration over Levantine and Mesopotamian provinces of the former Ottoman Empire established following the Sinai and Palestine Campaign of the Great War). The Military Administration was established to govern the territory → what would later be placed under a Civil Administration guided by a Mandate; approved by the Council of the League of Nations. "His Majesty the King in Council enacted, on August 10th, 1922,
the Palestine Order in Council, which defined the powers of the High Commissioner, prescribed the formation of an Executive Council and of a Legislative Council, and regulated the constitution and powers of the Palestine Judiciary, with special provisions for religious and for tribal Courts."
(See: Report on the Palestine Administration of 1922) Palestine, as established by the agreement of the Allied Powers, was not placed in the hands of the indigenous population. It was directed that "the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers." Hense the Government of Palestine was born, not from the toil and political need of the population, but through the inspiration of the Allied Powers. The 1919 Inter-Allied Commission (AKA: The King-Crane Commission) on Mandates in Turkey, reporting on the situation in Palestine they said:
“The Peace Conference should not shut its eyes to the fact that the anti-Zionist feeling in Palestine and Syria is intense and not lightly to be flouted. No British officer, consulted by the commissioners, believed that the Zionist programme could be carried out except by forces of arms.”
Early on in the Mandate era, the Arab Palestinians disenfranchise themselves by 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; a rejected notion but a reoccurring theme the Arab Palestinians would play over and over again. Even today, the Arab Palestinians operate essentially under the Khartoum Resolutions (The Three NO's).
The Arab Palestinians are doing it to themselves. They could have had so much more, then they have now → but chose the path of violence instead.
Most Respectfully,
R