YYA
The British also had no right to speak on behalf of the Arabs, something the Arabs still resent down to today ..
—
And the arabs do have a right to speak ‘on behalf of’ the arabs ?
what exactly are the criteria for the right to speak ‘on behalf’ ?
would ottoman turkey satisfy the criteria for speaking ‘on behalf’ ?
would the roman empire satisfy the criteria of haskama shel ha’umot ?
positing that haskamat ha’umot is a matir [as per your reasoning]
is kibush milhamah a kinyan al pi torah ?
cf avnei nezer where he posits that pre revolutionary russia is the private domain of the tsar al pi torah
so why is palestine not the possession of the british empire, al pi torah ?
.
.
rav zevin is on record saying that the 1947 un vote constitutes haskamat ha umot
was it ‘theirs’ to be maskim ?
maybe . it was a mandate , after all .
not clear …
.
.