docmauser1, P F Tinmore,
et al,
The mistake here is much more simplistic, fundamentally, than that.
The armistice lines never divided Palestine from anybody else. In the case of the West Bank and Gaza, the lines ran through Palestine. How can the Palestinians violate a line that is Palestine on both sides?
But the problem's that, major arab settlers&squatters from the hood didn't ran through palestine, they had been running to palestine, of course.
(COMMENT)
One must remember to keep in mind that:
When the Armistice lines were drawn in 1949, the term "Palestine" was still being used as defined in the original "
Palestine Order in Council." It referred to the territories to which the former Mandate for Palestine applied. It wasn't a political subdivision on its own.
The "Palestine" of 1949 was a legal entity
(trusteeship) but
not be a sovereign state and not self-governing. For all intent and purposes, The "Palestine" of 1949 had two component parts:
- The apportionment that Declared Independence by the right of self-determination of the Jewish People (AKA: The new State of Israel).
- The apportionment that declined to participate in the Partition Plan (AKA: The Arab State unrealized).
When the Armistice Lines were drawn, the Lines separated the various Arab Contingents from the the Israeli Contingents. The distinction made by
P F Tinmore in the question
"How can the Palestinians violate a line that is Palestine on both sides?" is a distinction without relevance. The Israelis were just as much Palestinians as the Arabs. Palestinian, a territorial name, was just as applicable to all the inhabitance of the time
(Jewish and Arab). In 1949, the foreign influence were the remnants of the 5 Arab Armies that established Occupation Authorities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In addressing the
P F Tinmore in the question, we have to understand that the term "Palestinians" is representational of both the Israelis and Arab. So, in fact, the question is meaningless
(like drawing lines in water), except for the implied threat to the sovereignty of Israel. What the Armistice Line separated then and now are the Hostile and Belligerent Parties.
The word game used by
P F Tinmore in the question is nothing more then a fallacious philosophical dilemma by the aggressors to justify Jihad and armed struggle. It is an outcome of the concept that all the former Territory under the old Mandate is an objective of the contemporary Arab Palestinian of today; that the territorial sovereignty of Israel today, represents an occupation by force of territory that is rightfully Arab Palestinian.
In terms of the West Bank, the distinction made by
P F Tinmore in the question
"How can the Palestinians violate a line that is Palestine on both sides?" is even made more dubious when one considers that the last sovereignty over the territory, prior to the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, was Jordanian. Rightfully, the Arab Palestinians of the West Bank should actually be called the "former Jordanian of Palestine." The historical geography of the West Bank is that what the UN calls the
Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, is the exact same territory as that
Annexed by the Jordanians in 1950.
On April 11, 1950, elections were held for a new Jordanian parliament in which the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank were equally represented. Thirteen days later, Parliament unanimously approved a motion to unite the two banks of the Jordan River, constitutionally expanding the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in order to safeguard what was left of the Arab territory of Palestine from further Zionist expansion.
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan now included nearly one and a half million people, more than half a million of whom were refugees evicted from Jewish-occupied Palestine. All automatically became citizens of Jordan, a right that had first been offered in December 1949 to all Palestinians who wished to claim it. Although the Arab League opposed this plan, and no other Arab government followed Jordan’s lead, the Hashemite Kingdom offered the possibility of normal life for many people who would have otherwise remained stateless refugees.
When the Palestinians accepted Jordanian Citizenship, they exercised their right of self-determination, but also relinquished any "refugee status." Under the
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, the:
C. This Convention shall cease to apply to any person falling under the terms of section A if:
(1) He has voluntarily re-availed himself of the protection of the country of his nationality; or
(2) Having lost his nationality, he has voluntarily re-acquired it; or
(3) He has acquired a new nationality, and enjoys the protection of the country of his new nationality; or
(4) He has voluntarily re-established himself in the country which he leftor outside which he remained owing to fear of persecution; or
(TO THE QUESTION: Who are the Palestinians)
And again, the Palestinians shot themselves in the foot. When the "Jordanian parliament in which the
Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank were equally represented" (right of self-determination), acquired a new nationality, and enjoyed the protection of the country of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, their new nationality.
While were might find it difficult to determine "who is a Palestinian," by the process of elimination we can rule-out what we call the Arab Palestinian of the West Bank. They abdicated their relationship as Palestinians when they accepted Jordanian citizenship.
(BOTTOM LINE)
There are no Arab Palestinians in the West Bank. They alerted that status in and by themselves in a Parliamentary process. And as for the
P F Tinmore in the question
"How can the Palestinians violate a line that is Palestine on both sides?" is a distinction without relevance; in that since 1950, there were no Palestinians on the Eastern side (towards Jordan) of the Armistice Line.
Most Respectfully, R