P F Tinmore, et al,
Without the actual assistance of the UK
(Balfour Declaration), the Allied Powers decisions at San Remo, the publication of the Mandate
(setting the Immigration policy) and the Order in Council
(defining the territory and establishing both citizenship and nationality criteria), the UN Special Committee on Palestine
(UNSCOP that published the Recommendations), the UN General Assembly that adopted the recommendations and set in motion that "Steps Preparatory to Independence," and the UN Palestine Commission UNPC
(the Successor Government to the Mandatory), --- the Jewish People would not have had the opportunity to accomplish what they did. The absence of any one of these ingredients would have stalled the outcome. So, no matter what you believe the Jewish intended or not, it could not have unfolded much differently than the way it did. Even the hostility provided by the Arab Palestinians contributed to the outcome of raising a Jewish State by their constant and ever continuous violence that advanced the termination of the Mandate, as well as the unrest for which they were directly responsible for, AND the aggressor intervention by the Arab League
(external) forces which further demonstrated the need for an independent and sovereign state from which the Jewish Culture could defend itself --- as well as everything else, was a contributing factor.
Like some many thing in the universe, the absence of a single ingredient alters the outcome.
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While the items described thus far can be said to be necessary and sufficient conditions for the political outcome, one of the more convincing and persuasive developments that lead to the acceptance of Israel as the Independent and Sovereign Jewish State was the fact that both the Holy War Army and the Arab Liberation Army (Palestinian Irregular Forces) were hostile combat elements which had direct ties to the Special Commandos of the Waffen SS, German Abwehr, as well as the
Wehrmacht; right on the heels of the WWII and the Holocaust. This did not sit well with many Allied Contributors and the deNazification Programs. Especially when they were again attempting to use armed aggression to achieve what they could not achieve by peaceful means.
OK, so? How does all this refute my post?
We hear a lot about Jewish immigration. Immigration is a misnomer - a lie if you will. The Zionists never had any intention of being a part of Palestine. They lived separate from anything Palestinian. They imported foreign settlers by the boatload to colonize the land and transform Palestine into an exclusive Jewish state. This was their publicly stated goal.
They were not immigrants. They were colonists.
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You can frame it any way you want. Your alternative view doesn't alter the political or historical reality.
Your assertion was that "The British Mandate was not a state. It was a temporarily appointed administration." Political terminology changes gradually over time. Your hidden
(unspoken) implication was that the State of Israel could not be a successor state because the British administration under the Mandate was not a "state." WRONG... The state of Israel was a successor state from the dependency of the Mandatory and the UNPC Successor Government. This
(in fact) was a solution to the Article 22 criteria for the provisional government to be able to "stand alone;"
(dependent one day - independent the next).
As I said before. All these seemingly isolated issues are politically dovetailed together.
(FINALLY)
The attempt to cast a suspicious and demonic shadow on the San Remo authorized immigration program, and portraying the Allied Powers
(to which the Ottoman/Turks renounced the title and right to in their Peace Treaty) as wicked and threatening is just a means of propaganda (
A/RES/2/110) designed or likely to provoke or encourage a threat to the peace, or acts of aggression. While there are a number of causes as to why no peaceful settlement has been sought since 1948, the most significant of these is the belief that Jihad and Violence are the only solutions to the Hostile Arab Palestinians (HoAP). If they don't get what they want, they will keep on fighting. More than 90% of the HoAP that claim to be fighting for their "Right-to-Return" have actually never lived in Israel...
Most Respectfully,
R