~~~that no government validly countenanced and from 1917/22 onwards no ruler had valid power to countenance.~~~
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Sorry, Richard,just not right. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine [google it], contains the words "His Majesty's Government", who became the valid authority under mandate from The League Of Nations". This ratification was later incorporated into the resolution of 1947 by the UN, which had by then become the valid, universally recognised, authority. Much as you personally may dislike them, those are the facts; and you merely make yourself look idiotic by retreating further & further into this own little bubble of yours where the facts of the outside world don't matter and only the misapprehensions of one Richard Bridge have any validity.