@OneSpeciesReal@ChrisFitzMelb@LibyaLiberty In international law, an illegal act or war crime committed by one party (Jordan) does not legally legitimize or cancel out the illegal acts, expulsions, or unilateral territorial acquisitions committed by the other side.
@OneSpeciesReal@ChrisFitzMelb@LibyaLiberty The UN itself called it a 'proposal.' Because the Arab majority rejected it, the plan legally remained exactly that an unimplemented proposal. You cannot wage an 'illegal war' against a non-binding suggestion that never carried the force of law.
@OneSpeciesReal The 1939 White Paper actually restricted Jewish immigration and called for an independent, unitary state with an Arab majority. While some Arab factions rejected it for not going far enough, it was vehemently rejected by the Zionist leadership.
@OneSpeciesReal The civil war didn't start in 1939. The 1947–1948 civil war broke out nearly a decade later, triggered directly by the announcement of the 1947 UN Partition Plan not the 1939 White Paper.
@OneSpeciesReal UN Resolution 181 was a General Assembly recommendation, not a binding treaty. The UN did not possess the legal authority to carve up a territory and hand out sovereign titles against the will of the majority of its inhabitants.
@OneSpeciesReal@ChrisFitzMelb@LibyaLiberty By 1947, the British government explicitly admitted that these dual obligations created a Jewish national home while safeguarding the rights of the indigenous Arab majority were completely irreconcilable under their administration. That's why the UN was given this.
@OneSpeciesReal@ChrisFitzMelb@LibyaLiberty Egypt didn't even attempt to annex Gaza; they treated it strictly as an occupied military territory precisely because they lacked a legal claim to sovereign acquisition by force.
@OneSpeciesReal@ChrisFitzMelb@LibyaLiberty The international community explicitly outlawed the acquisition of territory by force through the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 and later solidified it in the UN Charter of 1945. Therefore, by 1948, the rules of global geopolitics had fundamentally changed from the medieval era.
@OneSpeciesReal@ChrisFitzMelb@LibyaLiberty When Jordan annexed the West Bank in 1950, the international community (including the Arab League and the UN) overwhelmingly refused to recognize it. Only a tiny handful of countries (like the UK and Pakistan) ever gave it de facto recognition.
@OneSpeciesReal@ChrisFitzMelb@LibyaLiberty Even before the UN, the Mandate system established after WWI explicitly did not grant the British title of 'conqueror' or ownership over the land. Mandates were legally defined as temporary trusts meant to guide local populations toward self-determination.
@DrEliDavid Most likely the man is injured and is having to write anything. That doesn't mean he is having bad handwriting.
He can debate against anyone on any topic for days.