From: rdtst+@pitt.edu (Richard D Thorne)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast
Subject: Re: Israeli Expulsion of 418 Palestinians
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:10:25 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

Brendan:

   > (a) Neither the British, nor the League, nor the Zionist Organization
   >     publically equated "Jewish National Home" and "sovereign Jewish
   >     state".  The equation is in your mind only.  Never read the Churchill 
   >     White Paper of 1922?
   > (b) It reads IN Palestine, not IN ALL OF Palestine, and it does that
   >     with deliberate intent.  
     
    "When it is asked what is meant by the development of the 
    Jewish National Home in Palestine, it may be answered that it 
    is not the imposition of a Jewish nationality upon the 
    inhabitants of Palestine as a whole, but the further 
    development of the existing Jewish community, with the 
    assistance of Jews in other parts of the world, in order that it 
    may become a centre in which the Jewish people as a whole 
    may take, on grounds of religion and race, an interest and a 
    pride.  But in order that this community should have the best 
    prospect of free development and provide a full opportunity 
    for the Jewish people to display its capacities, it is essential 
    that it should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on 
    sufferance.  That is the reason why it is necessary that the 
    existence of a Jewish National Home in Palestine should be 
    internationally guaranteed, and that it should be formally 
    recognized to rest upon ancient historic connection.
          This, then is the interpretation which His Majesty's 
    Government place upon the Declaration of 1917, and, so 
    understood, the Secretary of State is of opinion that it does not 
    contain or imply anything which need cause either alarm to the 
    Arab population of Palestine or disappointment to the Jews."

         White Paper June 1922


     A simple chronology follows:

           1)   White Paper  June 1922
           2)   Mandate for Palestine confirmed by the League Council   July 
                  24, 1922
           3)   Article 25 of Palestine Mandate.  Memorandum by the British 
                 Representative where Transjordan is split off from Palestine.
                 Approved by the Council on Sept. 16, 1922.


      The following points should be clear:  1) The Mandate, and its terms, 
    were an international obligation on Britain.   2)  Britain needed to seek 
    approval of the League Council in order to modify the boundaries of the 
    Mandate.  3)  Unilateral British proclamations such as the White Paper 
    of 1922 had no legal effect until approval by the League Council.
    
  As I have stated in a previous post, the White Paper of 1939 was invalid.  
  The Mandate Commission stated that it was not in accordance with the 
  interpretation which the Commission had placed upon the Palestine 
  Mandate (see Oppenheim's International Law, p. 218 Vol. 1,  8th edition).

   What were the purposes of the Mandate?  In June 1930 the Council 
   stated: 
      "... the objects of the mandate are:
    The establishment of the Jewish National Home;
    The establishment of self-governing institutions.

      The mandate fixes no time-limit for the accomplishment of 
      these objects, which is only common sense, because the event 
      will depend on numerous circumstances over which the 
      Mandatory has no control.  Even the most energetic action and 
      the employment on immense financial resources can not alone 
      achieve the establishment of the Jewish National Home, which 
      is dependent upon economic and other factors; and no political 
      guidance, however enlightened and however effective, can 
      develop, except in process of time, that political maturity 
      without which the winning of complete de jure independence 
      by a people is a mere illusion."
      
      The Palestine Mandate p. 19, Geneva Research Center, Oct. 1930


    Brendan:
      Try to grow up a fraction before replying.  You aren't even any
      good at writing flames.
    

  I doubt that your problem lies in a lack of maturity, genetic 
load seems a more likely cause.  Your flames are amusing.  If 
you consent to submit a post I will gladly provide a critique.

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         Richard Thorne rdt@med.pitt.edu

           There is a thin line between arrogance and ignorance.
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