Nadene Goldfoot
"Mandatory Palestine was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the region of Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. There has never been a country of Palestine. The Romans called the land Palestine to erase the Jewish memories that remained out of anger against Jews who would not conform.
After an Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War in 1916, British forces drove Ottoman forces out of the Levant. The United Kingdom had agreed in the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence that it would honour Arab independence in case of a revolt but, in the end, the United Kingdom and France divided what had been Ottoman Syria under the Sykes–Picot Agreement—an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Another issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment of a Jewish "national home" in Palestine.
Mandatory Palestine was then established in 1920, and the British obtained a Mandate for Palestine from the League of Nations in 1922." The land was now made of only 28,166 sq kilometers or 23 % of the original land.
The name, Palestine, used by the Greeks, meant the land of the Philistines, a people no longer existing. What we see today was first called Syria Palestine, or Palestinian Syria. The former Judea was called Palestine by the Romans who occupied theland, then burning down Jerusalem in 70 CE. Their aim in name change was to weaken the Jewish association of the country.
In Hebrew the land was referred to as Eretz Caanan, then to Eretz Israel. Arabsnow refer to themselves as Palestinians. So did the Jews living there until Israel wasreborn on May 14, 1948.
By 1949, there was and Armistice Agreement leaving Israel with only 8,000 sq. km ofthe original 120,466 sq km, Britain, holding the mandate, gave away 80% ofthe land to the son of the head of Arabia. Abdullah needed a land to rule, they said.
Although the United States backed Resolution 181, the U.S. Department of State recommended the creation of a United Nations trusteeship with limits on Jewish immigration and a division of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab provinces but not states. The State Department, concerned about the possibility of an increasing Soviet role in the Arab world and the potential for restriction by Arab oil producing nations of oil supplies to the United States, advised against U.S. intervention on behalf of the Jews. Despite growing conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews and despite the Department of State’s endorsement of a trusteeship, Truman ultimately decided to recognize the state Israel.
West Bank is the Jordanian name for Judea and Samaria. Map shows 9mile distances or less.
President Barack Obama (January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017) opted to call for a created Palestine State for Arabs with his last-ditch policy initiative: the sponsoring of a Security Council resolution which lays down the parameters for a two-state solution. This time they are taking land from the tiny piece left for an Israel. The Oslo Agreements gave 1/3 of the West Bank to the Jews for Israel. The Oslo Accords (officially the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements) were signed by Israel and the
Arabs want all of Israel for their Palestine. This was decided in 1967 in their African meeting and is still standing in Kartoum of Sudan. Iran is helping them by backing all the groups against Israel; Hamas, Hezbollah, Houtis.
People who are enemies fighting against Israelis do not deserve their own statehood which means part of today's Israel called the West Bank by some.
The first major shift in U.S. policy occurred during the administration of President Richard Nixon, when Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had also served under former President Gerald Ford, authorized the first political dialogue with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1973–74. Although short-lived, the secret channel was the earliest sign of U.S. policymakers’ grudging recognition that Palestinians would eventually have to play a role in the peace process.
A few years later, President Jimmy Carter stunned both Israeli leaders and the Washington establishment by calling for the creation of a Palestinian “homeland,” the closest any U.S. president had ever come to acknowledging a Palestinian right to self-determination, although he ultimately failed to bring the Palestinians into the Camp David process.
It was Carter’s successor, Ronald Reagan, who first brought the PLO in from the cold. (This was ironic given that Reagan’s secretary of state, Alexander Haig, famously gave the “amber light” for Israel to destroy the PLO during its invasion of Lebanon in 1982.) After years of indirect and clandestine talks with the Palestinian movement, Reagan initiated the first official dialogue with the PLO in 1988. Although President George H. W. Bush later suspended the dialogue following an abortive raid on an Israeli beach by a dissident faction of the PLO, his secretary of state, James Baker, made history at the 1991 Madrid peace conference by bringing Palestinians directly into the peace process for the first time and launching the first face-to-face negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis.
Bush was also the first president to link the United States’ substantial aid package to Israel directly to the issue of Israeli settlements by deducting the amount estimated to have been spent on settlement construction (towns) in the occupied territories (Judea-Samaria) from U.S. loan guarantees to Israel.
These many Presidents promised more recognition for Israel but never came through. The surprise of the century was Trump's help to Israel when running for President, and fulfilling his promise. "During his tenure, Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and moved the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to the contested city. Trump has boasted that he “fought for Israel like no president ever before.” Others sent weapons, but never this.
Now Biden has been calling for a Palestinian state, and this would be rewarding to Palestinians for their horrid acts in attacking Israel for the past years even before 1967 and especially on October 7th. Do not let it happen that a Palestinian state is created now. A great great change must happen by the Palestinians before that ever happens, amongst others.
PS; my title was not accepted-thought to be spam, they said....????
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-israel
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/04/trump-israel-gaza-war-00150577#:~:text=During%20his%20tenure%
2C%20Trump%20recognized,like%20no%20president%20ever%20before.%E2%80%9D
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