90 years ago today, 78% of 'Palestine' was given to the Hashemites

Israel Matzav ^ | 9/29/13

[Nachum]

90 years ago today, the League of Nations approved the British Mandate for 'Palestine.' As part of that approval, 78% of the country's territory was turned over to Britain's ally, the Hashemite family of Jordan.

The British Mandate for Palestine, or simply the Mandate for Palestine, was a legal commission for the administration of the territory that had formerly constituted the Ottoman Sanjaks of Nablus, Acre, the Southern portion of the Beirut Vilayet, and the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, prior to the Armistice of Mudros. The draft of the Mandate was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, amended via the 16 September 1922 Transjordan memorandum^[1][2] and which came into effect on 29 September 1923^[1] following the ratification of the Treaty of Lausanne.^[3][4] The mandate ended at midnight on 14 May 1948.

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.

The formal objective of the League of Nations Mandate system was to administer parts of the defunct Ottoman Empire, which had been in control of the Middle East since the 16th century, "until such time as they are able to stand alone."^[5] The mandate document formalised the division of the British protectorates - Palestine, to include a national home for the Jewish people, under direct British rule, and Transjordan, an Emirate governed semi-autonomously from Britain under the rule of the Hashemite family.^[1]

Note that Wikipedia has done some clever editing above. They have changed what the document said to make it sound like 'Palestine' would include a national home for the Jewish people. But this is what the preamble to the mandate said:

Whereas the Principal Allied Powers have also agreed that the Mandatory should be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.^[28]

Note - no mention of 'Palestine' 'including' a national home for the Jewish people.

Learn some history: Read the whole thing. 

[Sherman Logan]

They have changed what the document said to make it sound like 'Palestine' would include a national home for the Jewish people.

the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people

Note - no mention of 'Palestine' 'including' a national home for the Jewish people.

Sorry, but this claim won't fly.

What the author is attempting to say is that Palestine was intended to be "a national home for the Jewish people."

If this were the case, the second quote above would have said something like "the establishment of Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people."

But that isn't what it says, is it?

The claim that the mandate gave 90% of Palestine to the Hashemites is also untrue. Mathematically, the numbers are off. Historically, what is now Jordan was never part of a "Palestine" to be divided. It was simply another part of the Ottoman Empire that was handed over to British control based on secret treaties, just as what is now Iraq was.

[BeadCounter]

This article makes me think of old maps I’ve seen.

[Netz]

Much of the confusion in that region arises from the use of the word “Palestine”. For the ignorant, one would think there was a sovereign state called Palestine, inhabited by, of course, Palestinians BEFORE the Zionists came and swept the poor little diddums away existed. But it never did.
Even Zionist Jews settled in that general area called Palestine. After 1948, it became Israel and Trans-Jordan.
Today, as most of the population did not learn the facts on the ground of history, the Arabs have managed to convince the world that a “Great Injustice” was done and it must be rectified by the Jews losing at least one major war or be negotiated out of existence by Obama and the UN.

IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN...

Go back all you Israel haters and READ which events transpired, when AND how each party to the conflict reacted.

The “truth” about Palestine is there to be read, if people choose to do so.

Israel always accepted compromise, a Western term, the butt-picking Arabs never did.

[Sherman Logan]

Correction, headline doesn’t claim 90% of Palestine was given away. I misread it. Apologies.

[driftless2]

If it had been the Arabs who were forced to leave their nation 2000 years ago, the rest of the world would have enthusiastically backed the return to their home country. But since it is the filthy Jews, well...that’s different. What right do they have? They only lived in Israel for 3,000 years. (smirk) Why the world backs those Arab Islamic losers can only be due to anti-Semitism.