P F Tinmore, et al,
I've posted this several times, but I'll try again.
What does that have to do with state succession, citizenship and refugees?
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The
Law of State Succession does apply, but only generally. Like a person who dies with a "will" and person who dies without a "will."
The Ottoman Empire/Turkish Republic stipulate by treaty how the territory was to be handled. In this case, the Palestinians have no claim. The Treaty clearly stipulates the the Allied Powers have full Rights and Title to the territory. Article 16, 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.
The Treaty Parties are the OttomanEmpire/Turkish Republic AND the Allied Powers. The Palestinians, the Arabs, or indigenous population was NOT bequeathed anything.
And it was the Allied Powers that decided the future of the territories.
"[T]he Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,"
The Arab Palestinians are attempting to lay claim on territory that was not their sovereign territory, and was not theirs to govern. When territory was offered to them, they rejected it and decided to open hostilities. While adjacent parties to the conflict have established "peace", the Hostile Arab Palestinians have opted to press violence (armed struggle) as the means of settling the dispute. The Arab Palestinians have not declared that they make a "solemn declaration before the United Nations, before God and history, that they will never submit or yield to any power going to Palestine to enforce partition." This has remained true since 1948.
At the current time, there is no popular or political intention by the Arab Palestinian to live peacefully under the Declaration of Principles.
Most Respectfully,
R