September 5, 2024
Gaza -- Who does it Belong to?
By Ted Belman
Did you know that prior to Israel’s Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, that Gaza was part of the Palestine Mandate and the Jews were entitled to sovereignty over it?
UN General Assembly resolution 181 in 1947 divided the mandate land into two states; one for the Arabs and one for the Jews. It was called the Partition Plan. This plan was in violation of right of the Jews to all the land as provided by the San Remo Resolution and the Palestine Mandate.
Israel’s Declaration of Independence pertained to the land allocated to Jews. The Arabs made no such declaration and chose war instead, They were joined by Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon in an effort to annihilate Israel. An armistice could not be achieved until Israel turned the tables and started winning territory from the Arabs.
The Arabs decided to cut their losses and agreed to an armistice on February 12, 1949 in which they formally ended the hostilities of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and also demarcated the Green Line, which separated Arab-controlled territory (i.e., the Jordanian-annexed West Bank and the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip) from Israel until the latter's victory in the 1967 Arab–Israeli War.
It was agreed that the Green Line was not to be construed in any sense as a political or territorial boundary, and is delineated without prejudice to rights, claims and positions of either Party to the Armistice as regards ultimate "settlement of the Palestine question".
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