On June 24, 1922 the League of Nations agreed upon a document called the Palestine Mandate. This document was created to define the degree of administration to be exercised by the Mandatory in Palestine. June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with a length of 30 days The month is named after the Roman goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter and equivalent to the Greek goddess Hera. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The League of Nations was an international organization founded after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. ... Mandatory Access Control (MAC) It means that Access control policy decisions are made beyond the control of the individual owner of an object. ... Map of the British Mandate of Palestine. ...

Background

After World War I the Principal Allied Powers selected Britain as the Mandatory (or administrator) of Palestine. Palestine was territory previously held by the Turkish Empire. One quarter of the territory extended east from the Mediterranean to a line formed along the Jordan River, three quarters extended further east from the line of the Jordan. The entire territory is sometimes referred to as the British Mandate of Palestine. Combatants Entente Powers Central Powers Commanders {{{commander1}}} {{{commander2}}} Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties > 5 million military deaths > 3 million military deaths {{{notes}}} World War I, also known as the First World War and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, War to End All Wars was a world... Mandatory Access Control (MAC) It means that Access control policy decisions are made beyond the control of the individual owner of an object. ... Imperial motto: unknown The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital İstanbul (Constantinople) Sovereigns Sultans of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40 million (at most) Area (1683) 11 955 000 km² Establishment 1281 Dissolution October 29, 1923 Currency Akçe The flag of the later... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Northern part of the Great Rift Valley as seen from space (NASA) The Jordan River today The Jordan River (Hebrew: נהר הירדן nehar hayarden, Arabic: nahr al-urdun) is a river in Southwest Asia flowing through the Great Rift Valley into the Dead Sea. ... Map of the territory under the British Mandate of Palestine. ...

Content

Article 2 of the Palestine Mandate stated that the administration would "secure the establishment of the Jewish national home", while "safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine". In addition, Article 25 of the mandate stated that all territory east of the Jordan was, in most part, at Britain's will, withheld from all provisions of the mandate.

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The termination of the Palestine Mandate is sometimes disputed, mostly with various referrals to technicalities. On 29 November 1947 in UN General Assembly Resolution 181 it was stated in the first paragraph, that "The Mandate for Palestine shall terminate as soon as possible but in any case not later than 1 August 1948", thus leaving no option for continuation after the given date. Map showing the UN Partition Plan. ...

Even if the General Assembly resolutions ([1]) are widely considered to be non-binding (Articles 10 and 14 of the UN Charter refer to General Assembly "recommendations"), by the end of the year 1948 the opinions regarding the termination of the Palestine Mandate seemed to be unanimously accepted. In the UN General Assembly meeting held on 1 December 1948 in Paris, the Mandate was dicussed in the past tense as being already terminated, without any opposition from any of the participating member states. Furthermore Mr Eban, as one of the representatives for the Provisional Government of Israel, also stated, that "Israel had accepted and complied with all the Security Council and Assembly resolutions", thus also accepting the status of the Mandate as already being terminated. ([2]) Abba Eban Abba Eban (אבא אבן) (February 2, 1915 – November 17, 2002) was an Israeli diplomat and politician. ...

External links

• Wikisource:Palestine Mandate
• Yale Law School, Avalon Project, archive copy of the Palestine Mandate