And so, back to the topic of the OP:
There was never a state called Palestine.
It is the name of a region given to it by the Romans, to remove the previous Jewish name for the area. There was never a significant Arab presence in the region. In the 1870s not more than a few thousand Arabs.
After the Ottoman empire was defeated WW1, it was decided to create a Jewish state within the region. The Arabs agreed.
77% of the region that was called Palestine was give to the Arabs for creation of Arab states. The dividing line was pretty much the Jordan river. The map clearly indicates how the region was divided in 1922.
Any creation of a new Palestinian state within Jewish land would be the creation of yet another Arab state. The land for Arab states had already been agreed upon in 1922.
The Arabs never accepted a Jewish state in practice. Arab radicals began terrorism and disturbances as early as the 1930s.
The only point to even argue seems to be that the League of Nations had no right to decide what to do with the region called Palestine. Yet it was the western powers than won WW1. Previous war victors had always decided what to do with the spoils of war. It was only the intervention of US President Woodrow Wilson that kept this area from being taken over by the victors this time, as he believe the era of colonialism and the practice of to the victor belongs the spoils was over.
Originally Posted by VitaMan
At the end of WW-I, TE Lawrence ("of Arabia") had largely facilitated the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East. At an immediate post-war conference in Damascus, there was an opportunity for the liberated Arab factions to form a unified Pan-Arab political entity of some sort. They didn't.
They couldn't agree on the who, what, where and how . . . and the Western powers subsequently cut up the region, installing the House of Saud in a kingship in Ryad, the Hashemite family in kingship of Jordan, Feisal as king in Egypt etc.
They had the chance for a United Arab Republic or something similar back then and botched it.
Makes me respect the delagates to the 1789 constitutional convention even more, despite the flaws written into the final document.