DECOLONIZATION OF PALESTINE AND LEGAL BOUNDARIES OF ISRAEL (original) (raw)

2023, VIIth International Symposium on Social Sciences of the Turkic World

After the First World War, with the establishment of the Republic of Turkiye and with the Treaty of Lausanne, Palestine, one of the former Ottoman lands, came under the mandate system within the framework of Article 22 of the League of Nations Covenant. With the abolition of the League of Nations and the establishment of the United Nations, Palestine, has been taken under the Chapter XII of the United Nations` Charter within the International Trusteeship System. The United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 on 29 November 1947, decided to establish two separate states, Arab and Jewish, in Palestine, which was under a single mandate. After the authorization by the United Nations General Assembly, the Jews published a declaration of independence one day before the end of the British mandate in Palestine on 14 May 1948, and announced the establishment of the state of Israel to the world. On 15 May 1948, the First Israel-Arab war began. As a result of the war, Israel took control of about 60% of the area proposed for the Arab (Palestine) state, as well as the area proposed by the United Nations for the Jewish state. On 4 March 1949, Israel was accepted as a member of the United Nations with the approval of the Security Council by the Resolution 273 of the General Assembly. After the First Arab-Israeli War, the United Nations Security Council did not demand Israel's withdrawal from the territories that it occupied. The United Nations Security Council demanded that Israel to withdraw from only the territories it occupied during the Second Arab-Israeli War in 1967 with its resolution 242. Today there is a misconception that the boundaries of Israel before the Second Arab -Israel War as legal.