AndreaBD skrev 2024-10-31 16:34:04 följande:
Det var verkligen inte så det fungerade då! Jag har en text här som förklarar det lite:
"In July 1922 the Council of the
League of Nations approved the mandate instrument for Palestine, including its preamble incorporating the
Balfour Declaration and stressing the Jewish historical connection with Palestine......
Article 6 required that the Palestine administration, ?while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced,? under suitable conditions should
facilitate Jewish immigration and close settlement of Jews on the land.....
Although Transjordan?i.e., the lands east of the
Jordan River?constituted three-fourths of the British mandate of Palestine, it was, despite protests from the Zionists, excluded from the clauses covering the establishment of a Jewish national home....
No agreement was reached at the London conference held during February and March 1939. In May 1939, however, the British government issued a
white paper, which essentially yielded to Arab demands. It stated that the Jewish national home should be established within an independent Palestinian state. During the next five years 75,000 Jews would be allowed into the country; thereafter Jewish immigration would be subject to Arab ?acquiescence.? Land transfer to Jews would be allowed only in certain areas in Palestine, and an independent Palestinian state would be considered within 10 years....
On August 31, 1947, a majority report of the UN Special Committee on
Palestine (UNSCOP) recommended that the region be partitioned into an Arab and a Jewish state, which, however, should retain an economic union.....
These recommendations were substantially adopted by a two-thirds majority of the
UN General Assembly in
Resolution 181, dated November 29, 1947, a decision made possible partly because of an agreement between the United States and the
Soviet Union on
partition and partly because pressure was exerted on some small countries by Zionist sympathizers in the United States. All the Islamic Asian countries voted against partition, and an Arab proposal to query the
International Court of Justice on the competence of the General Assembly to partition a country against the wishes of the majority of its inhabitants (in 1946 there were 1,269,000 Arabs and 678,000 Jews in Palestine) was narrowly defeated......
Det här blev lite väl långt. Jag måste säga att Storbritannien verkade ha tappat kontrollen. Det blev lite fel från början.
UK tappade inte kontrollen för det var aldrig deras uppgift att "ha kontrollen" till att börja med.
UK, som en av världens stormakten och som kolonialmakt i området, skulle bara förvalta området tills resten av världen hade kommit på vad man skulle göra med det - en roll UK motvilligt tog på sig och sedan allt mer motvilligt utförde.
UK kunde inte släppa området fort nog när väl den dagen kom.
