RE: Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2
SUBTOPIC: General Question
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
BLUF: I find it hard to believe
Palestine has a population that dates back hundreds even thousands of years.
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My My, While this is true, it actually means nothing. (Think About this.)
IF the cradle of civilization was somewhere in Africa,
THEN a large percentage of the people on the planet are descendants of forebearers that passed through that region of the world.
This concept that the Arab Palestinians have some sort of exclusive heritage (thousands of years old) to the territory is getting old. You can drop-kick that argument to the trash. Hell, I can claim linage to the region that dates back ≈ 12,000 years. But the idea of territorial control has a contemporary meaning. And in the last millennium, the Arab Palestinians of today demonstrated almost no control over the territory.
Palestine has international borders defined by treaties.
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I am totally unaware of any International Treaty that delineates a nation called Palestine. Certainly no treaty during the 20th Century such a territory. That is especially true of the Treaty of Lausanne. So you have an opportunity to school me here. What Treaty is that of which you speak?
Palestine has signed on to international conventions and even had a trade agreement with the US. Palestine engaged in international trade.
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International Trade and Commerce has no being on territorial control. The US had Treaties that effectively ended privacy all along the Barbary Coast. But even the Oslo Accords (the establishment of a Palestinian Interim Self-Government Authority) recognizes authorities under the Areas designated "A" - "B" - and "C." And that International Accord (
an international agreement concluded between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in written form and governed by international law) delineates the Special Provisions concerning Area "C."
When the Israelis established effective control over the West Bank in 1967, it was governed by Jordan. When the Government of Jordan abandon political control of the West Bank there was no authority made up of Arab Palestinians to take over as the Government. The Arab League had in 1974 recognized the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people in any Palestinian territory that is liberated. But it had not assembled a self-governing institution of any kind.
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Most Respectfully,
R