P F Tinmore,
et al,
Think about the phrase: "able to stand alone."
If Palestine was not the Palestinians country the whose was it?
Link please.
During the time that it was under British Control, it was 'Mandatory Palestine' and it was a region, not a country.
Mandatory Palestine was between 1920-1948, until the British left. Before 1920, it was Ottoman control. It was never the country that belonged to the Palestinians. They owned land and lived there, and had rights, but it was not a country ! You keep making the same comment that the Jews stole half their country, or the British gave away half their 'country' !
Just stop it already !!
I want to know why it's sop hard for you to comprehend that during the period we are discussing, that 'Palestine' was a geographical region. REGION. REGION . REGION !
If Palestine belonged to the British, why didn't they Just give it to Israel? Why was there a need to do the resolution 181 schtick?
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Again, you are twisting the words. No one said it belonged to the British. It was said that it was entrusted to the British on behalf of the Allied Powers; which took possession in accordance with the Treaty.
Why did the British refuse to implement resolution 181 without the Palestinian's approval?
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This was asked and answered before. The Mandatory Power did not want to get entangled in another war. It was their belief that the terms of the Resolution could not be effectively implemented without the use of force.
Why did the Security Council not implement resolution 181 for the same reason?
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Who said it was not implemented? Now you are just making stuff up. Two-thirds of the Resolution has been implemented. The first third in 1948 with the Independence of Israel. The second third in 1988 with the Independence of Palestine.
The Security Council did implement parts of the Resolution, the Part that the Jewish Agency agreed to, and the establishment of the Jewish State. The portion of the Plan that referred to the establishment of the Arab State was not agreed to and therefore not implemented. The portion of the Plan that referred to the Internationalization of Jerusalem was not implemented because it was interrupted by the foreign Arab Invasions.
Why does the status of Palestinian land require the approval of the Palestinians in the current peace talks?
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Because in 1988
(A/43/827 S/20278 18 November 1988 - ANNEX III), the PLO, using "
General Assembly Resolution 181 (II) of 1947, which partitioned Palestine into an Arab and a Jewish State, that resolution nevertheless continues to attach conditions to international legitimacy that guarantee the Palestinian Arab people the right to sovereignty and national independence." Even the Palestinians use the Resolution when it is to there advantage. With the Declaration of Independence of 1988, the second third of the Resolution was then implemented by the Palestinians themselves.
To say that Palestine does not belong to the Palestinians flies in the face of common sense and indisputable facts.
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You keep moving the timeline. Today (beginning in 1988), after two-thirds of the Resolution having been implemented, as modified by the outcome of wars and conflict, there is a State of Palestine. It remains to be seen if it is really an Article 22 type State that is able to stand alone on its own. (So far --- not so much.)
BTW, a region is an undefined territory. Palestine has had defined international borders since 1922.
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The Treaty of Sevres was consummated in 1920, and the region of Palestine
(within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers) was left to the administration of the Mandatory.
In 1922, Palestine, under the Mandate, included Trans-Jordan. And that remained true even through the autonomy agreements. You cannot use the entire Mandate boundaries for specified Article 25 reasons. What was defined in 1922 was for Mandate purposes. By that time, two-thirds of that Mandate Territory was already earmarked and partitioned-off to establish an Arab Kingdom.
Paragraph 1003 said:
M. CATASTINI recalled that the Treaty
(Treaty between Great Britain and the Amir of Trans-Jordan) had been forwarded at the same time as the annual report of the mandatory Power for 1927, and that the Permanent Mandates Commission, during its thirteenth session, had made some criticisms regarding the Treaty which it had inserted in its report to the Council. When the matter had come before the Council, Lord Cushendun had made a declaration in answer to the anxiety expressed by the Permanent Mandates Commission.
M. ORTS quoted the end of the declaration of Lord Cushendun:
"There should be no doubt at all in the minds of the members of the Council that my Government regards itself as responsible to the Council for the proper application in Trans-Jordan of all the provisions of the Palestine mandate, except those which have been excluded under Article 25."
SOURCE: Palestine and Trans-Jordan: Agreement between Great Britain and the Amir of Trans-Jordan : Attitude of the Commission.
The boundaries in 1922 were "Mandate Boundaries;" not true international boundaries
(meaning borders between nations).
- Lebanon did not come into existence until 1 September, 1926, when Vichy High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon formed the Lebanese Republic. The Republic was afterward a separate entity from Syria but still administered under the French Mandate of Syria. Lebanon gained independence in 1943, while Vichy France was occupied by Germany.
- France administered Syria until its independence in 1946.
- Jordan became independence on 25 May 1946 from League of Nations mandate under British administration.
There were no independent nations bordering the territorial Mandate of Palestine in 1922. Thus, no international borders.
Most Respectfully,
R