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in clear breach of the rules of international law.
The Legal Status of Palestine
The UK's rule over Palestine contained flaws and several breaches.
The Mandatory Power (UK) was considered, by many international
lawyers, as a colonial power, which should have supervised the
Mandate Territory and developed it as an honest trustee, which it
failed to do.
In regards to sovereignty over Palestine during the years of the
Mandate, many international experts consider that sovereignty was
inherent to the people of that territory and was temporarily in the
hands of the League of Nations. Palestine was considered as an
embryo of a state.
It had its constitutions in 1922, its nationality law in 1925 and several
other laws and by-laws covering almost all aspects of life and social
and economic activities.
The Mandatory Power exerted all its efforts to help the Zionist
Organizations, represented by the Jewish Agency, the Jewish Keren
Ha' Kayemet, the Jewish Keren Ha'yesud and the Zionist Haganah
[the armed organization of the Jewish agency], to bring an influx of
Jewish immigrants into the Mandated Territory, to develop their own
independent economy, arms and to construct armed settlements, in all
Palestine.
All of this was claimed to be in conformity with the MD of Palestine,
which was the legal fig-leaf in concealing the real goals of both the
imperial power and Zionist Organizations.
During the whole of British rule, Palestinians revolted and
demonstrated, but the British forces dealt with these revolutionary
acts in utmost cruelty, putting them down and killing thousands of
Palestinian Arabs and deporting or imprisoning tens of thousands.
In 1947, the UK government, unable to control the strong Zionist
terrorist organizations, decided to refer the whole issue to the United

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