Challenger, P F Tinmore, et al,
You both are having troube with your memory.
Interesting. If I might make an observation, if Palestine was a legal entity and had a government seperate and distinct from HBMG, then it qualifies as a state, does it not? Even under Montevideo requirements Palestine had a territory, a population, and a government. Just because that government was controlled by a foreign power (Britain) does not in any way detract from it's status as a state.
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Yes, this is a bit complicate for you.
Great Britain (HBMG) is a government that covered the entire British Empire. And in being part of the British Empire, you have that citizenship,
In the first half of the 20th Century (1900 -1949)
de facto citizenship of the
United Kingdom and the
British Empire (AKA British Subjects), was any person born in the United Kingdom or the British Empire, including the independent
dominions (but not including protectorates). Palestine was a territory under a Mandate issued by the League of Nations (LoN) in agreement with the Allied Powers that held the Title and Rights.
That is a very different thing being a Citizen of the territory under the Mandate for Palestine, a territory subject to the Order in Council and the Allied Powers have agreed to entrust to a Mandatory, selected by Allied Power, the administration of the territory of Palestine, which formerly belonged to the Turkish Empire, within such boundaries as may be fixed by them. The Mandate was monitored and supervised by the Permanent Mandates Commission of the LoN.
Great Britain maintained and acted as the Government of Palestine,; but it was not a colonial holding and was not under British Sovereignty.
BIG DIFFERENCE!
Do not confuse the de facto "Government of Palestine" as a government by the Arab inhabitants and for the Arab inhabitance. In fact, the High Commissioner has governed Palestine with the aid of Councils consisting exclusively of British officials during the entire period between 1922 and 1948. Every attempt by the High Commissioner to engage the Arab Palestinians to establish an Arab Agency was declined on the ground that it would not satisfy the aspirations of the Arab people.
I have posted many things saying that Palestine is a state. You have posted nothing saying that it is not.
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UN Palestine Commission
27 February 1948
UNITED NATIONS
Department of Public Information
Press and Publications Bureau
Lake Success, New York
Press Release PAL/138
27 February 1948
The Government of the United Kingdom, in a memorandum on the "Legal Meaning of the Termination of the Mandate", has advised the United Nations Palestine Commission that so far the Mandatory Power is concerned the United Nations Commission will be the Government of Palestine after 15 May 1948.
The memorandum, transmitted to the Commission by the British Delegation to the United Nations, sets forth the position of the Mandatory Power with respect to the question of the successor government in Palestine after the termination of the British mandate. Pertinent excerpts from the memorandum are as follows:
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Palestine is today a legal entity but it is not a sovereign state. Palestine is a territory administered under mandate by His Majesty (in respect of the United Kingdom), who is entirely responsible both for its internal administration and for its foreign affairs.
"After the 15th May, 1948,
Palestine will continue to be a legal entity but it will still not be a sovereign state because it will not be immediately self-governing. The authority responsible for its administration will, however, have changed.
"Where the sovereignty of Palestine lies at the present time is a disputed and perhaps academic legal question about which writers have expressed a number of different conclusions. Where the sovereignty of Palestine will lie after the 15th May, 1948, is perhaps also a question on which different views will be held, but so far as His Majesty's Government are aware, it is a question which it is unnecessary to answer in connection with any practical issues.
"After the 15th May, 1948, the United Nations Commission will be the Government of Palestine. It does not seem very material whether it is considered to be the de facto or the de jure Government. In any case, its title to be the Government of Palestine will rest on the resolution of the General Assembly.
"His Majesty's Government will recognize the United Nations Commission as the authority with which to make an agreement regarding the transfer of the assets of the Government of Palestine."
The Palestine Commission has adopted the following statement of policy with respect to the continuity of employment of present employees of the Mandatory administration in Palestine, and has requested the Mandatory Power to publish the statement or circulate it to all employees of the present Government in Palestine:
"The United Nations Palestine Commission, being under the terms of the resolution of the General Assembly responsible for the administration of Palestine immediately following the termination of the Mandate, hereby calls upon all present employees of the Palestine administration to continue their service with the successor authority in Palestine when the British Mandate is terminated. It is the policy of the United Nations Palestine commission as the successor authority to maintain services on the same terms and with the same rights for employees as those enjoyed under the Mandatory Government. The Commission requests all present employees of the Palestine Administration to inform at the earliest possible date, the Mandatory Government for communication to the Commission, whether they would be willing to remain in the service of the successor administration of Palestine on such terms."
The next meeting of the Commission will be on Monday, March 1, at 3 P.M.
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This was a joint release by the UN, the UNPC, and The British Mandatory. It has been published here many times.
In you claim, you say that you have "posted many things saying that Palestine is a state." Well the question becomes:
• If the Ottoman Empire/Turkish Republic surrendered the Title and Rights of these territories to the Allied Powers, and the Allied Powers maintained positive control of these territories, when did the territories become self-government and establish a state?
And please don't use the All Palestine Government as your claim. It could not even establish self-government in the Gaza Strip. It was dissolved in 1959 by its creator (Egypt).
Most Respectfully,
R