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Originally Posted by wabpilot
Actually, the British administered Palestine pursuant to a mandate from the League of Nations. Whatever authority the UK had was not its imperial authority, but was derived from the Ottomans by way of the League of Nations. The United Nations, the successor to the League of Nations, was exercising Ottoman authority to partition Palestine and create Israel and Trans-Jordan. For the record, the United Kingdom opposed the UN plan to partition Palestine.
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As a matter of International Law pretense, you're right. The reality, however, is that Great Britain ruled its part of the Middle East by right of conquest rubber stamped by the League of Nations. Since Great Britain ruled that roost, I don't think a League of Nations Mandate adds anything to the legitimacy of Great Britain's governance of Palestine.