5. On November 29, 1947, the General Assembly adopted the key "partition"
resolution, Resolution 181, ratifying the British proposals. It also provided for an
independent international mixed status for the city of Palestine. In my opinion, this
Resolution constitutes the first, last, and only legally authorized demarkation of the
Israeli-Palestine borders. It was legally authoritative not because it took the form of a
UN Resolution, but solely because the UN Resolution itself served as a ratification of the
British proposal to divide the Mandate and leave its governance to the people. In other
words, the alpha and omega of the legal power resided in Great Britain as the trustee and
not in the United Nations. As trustee, it had the power to partition the territory if and only
if that was the best way to provide for its future self-government. The General Assembly
did not derive its legal powers directly from the Charter of the UN, but rather as surrogate
for the League of Nations. It was the League as a supervisory authority over the British
Mandate that devolved its powers of mandate supervision to the UN and, through the UN,
to the General Assembly itself. Legal title to the land was not conferred by Resolution
181 alone but rather by Great Britain's acceptance of the terms of Resolution 181. The
State of Israel owes its entire legal existence to the proper exercise by Great Britain of its
League of Nations' Mandatory Power over the territory of Palestine. It owes nothing to
the United Nations as a separate entity and, by the same token, cannot claim any
additional rights from the United Nations. Instead, as soon as Resolution 181 was passed
(Great Britain abstained), the legal borders between Israel and Palestine were forever
fixed.
Those borders henceforth could only be changed by one of two processes: first,
explicit agreement between Israel and the authorized representatives of Palestine, and
second, in the few cases of limited disputed areas where the verbal description contained
in Resolution 181 was ambiguous in terms of existing maps or surveys, by international
arbitration. The Security Council had and has no power to change international borders.
The sanctity of international borders is a principle of international law that antedates the
Charter of the United Nations; in fact it goes back five thousand years. No smaller nation
would have supported the UN Charter at the San Francisco Conference in 1945 if the
draft Charter had given to the five permanent members of the Security Council—the
United States, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union, and China—the legal power to change
international frontiers. After all, the five permanent members at the time had been
wartime allies, and in concert they could reshape the world at will if they had been given
such an unprecedented power. Moreover, there is nothing in the Charter of the United
Nations that even remotely hints of a power or entitlement in the Security Council to
change international borders. Even Resolution 242 only calls for a withdrawal of forces,
and makes no mention of a permanent change in boundaries. As far as the Israeli
settlements are concerned, they are clearly illegal; an occupying power has no right to
engage in de facto annexation of portions of the occupied territory by way of population
transfers
9. Overshadowing the arguments in Paragraph 8 above is the undeniable fact that
the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact of 1928, as definitively interpreted by the International
Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1948, has abolished forever the idea of acquisition of territory
by military conquest. No matter who was the aggressor, international borders cannot
change by the process of war. Resort to war is itself illegal, and while self-defense is of
course legal, a successful campaign of self-defense cannot extend so far as to constitute a
new war of aggression all its own. And if it does, the land taken may at best be
temporarily occupied, but cannot be annexed. Thus after all the Middle East wars, the
bloodshed, aggressions and counter-aggressions, acts of terror, reprisals, and attendant
UN resolutions, nothing has changed the legal situation as it existed after Resolution 181
was passed in 1947. The legal boundaries of Israel and Palestine remain today exactly as
they were delimited in Resolution 181
Criminal Zionists and their prosemitic fawns- stfu.