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The Commission reached the conclusion that the Mandate had become unworkable and must be abolishedin favour of partition, as the only solution to the Arab–Jewish "deadlock". It outlined ten points on: a Treaty system between the Arab and Jewish States and the new Mandatory Government; a Mandate for the Holy places; the frontiers; the need for Inter-State Subvention; the need for British Subvention; tariffs and ports; nationality; civil service; Industrial concessions; and the exchange of land and populations.[21]
WTH is this dribble. Has nothing to do with what I said.
Europeans took land directly from native Americans and murdered them and kicked them out. Jews worked a political and diplomatic process including buying land and had a footprint in the region for millenniums and was the ancestral home for the religion. Independent parties negotiated the partition plan. Not exactly the same. Not the same universe.
You said the Palestinians didn't "own" the land. Native Americans didn't "own" their land either.
Just because Western powers didn't codify a geographical area as a "nation" doesn't mean the indigenous people living there do not own the land.
They've been living there for hundreds of years. Hence, they own the land.
And no, they didn’t own the land. Nor did they have the right to prevent Jews from purchasing land. You’re trying to argue that by virtue of being a Muslim arab in the region you automatically had rights to land you didn’t live on or own?
Typical deceptive bullshit you do. The land some Jewish groups bought was PRIVATE land and a very small percentage relatively speaking.
The vast majority of the land allocated during the partition was public land state owned land. Previously controlled by the Ottoman Empire then taken over temporarily by the British after World War.
Stop conflating two completely different things.
And again, not only were they not a nation, they had no unifying identity prior to the Jewish movement.
Irrelevant. They were living there for hundreds of years.
The reality is the Arab / Muslim world wanted to keep the region Arab / Muslim. And again, they got double the non-desert land. And again, it wasn’t “their country”. The Arabs had their countries all around. This was ottoman land that the British controlled.
The entire region is Arab / Muslim. They dominate 95% of the population.
So they should be a-ok with recent immigrants flooding in and somehow getting awarded 55% of the land by the UN?
Not that ANY of this matters because Israel exists and EVERYONE needs to deal with it and move on. There’s literally zero benefit to re-litigating 1947. The only thing that matters is what to do now that Israel is here to stay. Waging war against them isn’t the best idea. Terrorism against them isn’t the best idea. Enabling and encouraging those who want to pursue those routes isn’t the best idea. The best idea is to make peace and have visions of what is in the best interests of all parties long term. It’s not to align with Iran…….
So going to keep ignoring why Israel is justified in continually stealing land in the West Bank?