The Palestinians of 1967

[sirs]

What the hell are you blabbing about, Bt?  Are you going to educate the class on what these "mandates" are supposed to be, or what??

[BT]

And on the 8th day the lord created Google, and said it was good.

[sirs]

Since I have neither the time nor inclination to do your work, I'll just sit here patiently

[BT]

Since I have neither the time nor inclination to do your work, I'll just sit here patiently

As you wish

[sirs]

Actually, its your wish not to make any substantive point with this apparent irrelevent reference to mandates.  Pity....one would have thought this was a debate forum     

[BT]

Actually, its your wish not to make any substantive point with this apparent irrelevent reference to mandates.  Pity....one would have thought this was a debate forum     

How would you know they are irrelevant points?

[sirs]

Because, until now, they don't exist....ergo, irrevelent

[Plane]

Wiki knoledge , nearly as good as real knoledge.

The British Mandate for Palestine, also known as the Palestine Mandate and The British Mandate of Palestine, was a legal commission for the administration of Palestine, the draft of which was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922 and which came into effect on 26 September 1923.[1] The document was based on the principles contained in Article 22 of the draft Covenant of the League of Nations and the San Remo Resolution of 25 April 1920 by the principal Allied and associated powers after the First World War.[1] The mandate formalised British rule in the southern part of Ottoman Syria from 1923–1948. With the League of Nations' consent on 16 September 1922, the UK divided the Mandate territory into two administrative areas, Palestine, under direct British rule, and autonomous Transjordan, under the rule of the Hashemite family from the Kingdom of Hejaz in present-day Saudi Arabia, in accordance with the McMahon Correspondence of 1915.[1] Following the 1922 Transjordan memorandum, the area east of the Jordan river became exempt from the Mandate provisions concerning the Jewish National Home.[1][2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine



In other words , the English defeated the Turks , and took from the Turks these spoils.

In terms of anchient law you may claim any land , but it is yours if you can defend it.

[sirs]

Cool, thanks Plane.           ........and the point of Bt bringing it up would be..................?

[Plane]

         ........and the point of Bt bringing it up would be..................?

  I am not speaking for BT of course, but the British had it because they took it and the League of Nations said "Meh".

   The Turks had it because they had taken it,..etc....

[sirs]

...and Israel has taken it (in defending themeselves........and.......??....and the point Bt was trying to make remains as elusive as originally concluded

[Xavier_Onassis]

The English were given a mandate to Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, while the French got Syria and Lebanon by ghe League of Nations. This was worked out in collaboration with the Arabs who had been led by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) Then Lord Balfour decided to award land to the Jews for a homeland, in defiance of the mandates.

[sirs]

.....and the UN allocated lands to Israel, and Arab countries attacked Israel on multiple occasions after that FACT, at which time Israel took additional lands (NOT PALESTINIAN, BUT ACTUALLY LANDS FROM EGYPT, JORDAN, AND SYRIA) in defense of their very existance

Pretty much making any of these "mandates" moot

[BT]

The English were given a mandate to Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, while the French got Syria and Lebanon by ghe League of Nations. This was worked out in collaboration with the Arabs who had been led by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) Then Lord Balfour decided to award land to the Jews for a homeland, in defiance of the mandates.

What prompted Balfour to write the Declaration in 1917 and why did he address it to Baron Rothschild?

[Xavier_Onassis]

I am not privy to what was going on in Balfour's head, but I imagine that the British felt that a Jewish (and therefore Western-oriented) state would make manipulating the area easier for the British.

Baron Rothschild was a Zionist and the richest Jew in the world, which no doubt impressed Balfour greatly. I think that he was recognized to be as close to an international Jewish leader as there was at the time.

It was a bad idea. There was so much Australia that was available at the time.