RE:
Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2
⁜→ P F Tinmore, et al,
Now you are taking the "ridiculousness" to new heights. This is a question in which the first-order rule of interpretation tells appliers how an interpreted treaty provision shall be understood.
Here again, you are basing your conclusions on false premise.
Reading through the Treaty of Lausanne, the parties concerned are the states.
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Now you can use
the → Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (23 May 1969):
Article 2(g) “party” means a State which has consented to be bound by the treaty and for which the treaty is in force;
OR
You can use the → On The Interpretation of Treaties • Law and Philosophy Library • Volume 83 [ISBN 978-1-4020-6362-6 (e-book)]
Rule #1§4 For the purpose of this rule, parties means any and all states for which the treaty is in force at
the time of interpretation.
OR
Generally Held: → Parry & Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, page 455
party (to a treaty) In terms of art. 2(1)(g) of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
of 23 May 1969 ( 1155 U.N.T.S. 331 ), a party is ‘a State which has consented to be bound by
the treaty and for which the treaty is in force’. Cf . contracting State ; signatory State .
A party to a contract is one who holds the obligations and receives the benefits of a legally binding agreement. When two parties enter into an agreement, there are two distinct roles each play: the promisor and the promisee. The promisor is the party that makes the promise, while the promisee is on the receiving end of the promise.
Don't for a moment think that Section II (Nationality) • Article 30 has anything to do with who is a party to the Treaty or on the decisions as to transfer of territory. While it is TRUE that the Arab Palestinians became citizens of the Government of Palestine (a legal entity), it is NOT TRUE that the Arab Palestinians became nationals of the Government of Palestine. States within the territory west of the Jordan River had been undecided. And the territory east of the Jordan River was only granted its sovereignty by the treaty with the Mandatory Power (Great Britain) in 1946.
(See Treaty Series page 145)
The territory, however, was transferred to Palestine. The Palestinians (the people who lived there) became citizens of Palestine. They are the people who have the right to self-determination and sovereignty as subsequent UN resolutions have affirmed.
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The territory was NOT transferred anywhere. And Again, you are mixing apples and oranges. It cannot be made any clearer. There was no country created in the territory west of the Jordan River until 15 May 1948 by the National Council for the Jewish State and the Provisional Government; that being the Jewish State of Israel. At that time, the people of all persuasions, inside the limits of the sovereign territory over which the Jewish.
Just as a matter of clarity, the Arab Palestinian people did not declare independence. It was the Palestine Liberation Organization that declared independence.

Most Respectfully,
R