`A number of very high quality primary and secondary sources say that the British Mandate for Palestine was composed of two states, Palestine and Transjordan  *According to Howard Grief, a legal advisor to the government of Israel, ``Article 22 which established the Mandates System, was largely the work of Jan Christiaan Smuts who formulated the details in a memorandum that became known as the Smuts Resolution, officially endorsed by the Council of Ten on January 30, 1919, in which Palestine as envisaged in the Balfour Declaration was named as one of the mandated states to be created.`` .  He also wrote that Palestine was specifically created at the San Remo Peace Conference on 24-25 April 1920 as a mandated state.   *Article 434 of the Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany was required to recognize the dispositions made concerning the territories of the former Ottoman Empire, ``and to recognize the new States within their frontiers as there laid down.`` The text of the treaty is available online  *Article 60 of the Treaty of Neuilly with Bulgaria contained identical stipulations. The text of the treaty is available online  *Article 74 of the Treaty of Trianon with Hungary contained identical provisions. The text of the treaty is available online      ``Great Britain had always treated Trans-Jordan as a political entity completely separate from Palestine.  Its inclusion within the framework of the Palestine Mandate was an outcome of the political events following the fall of Faisal's government in July 1920.  The Palestine–Trans-Jordan boundary served as a political barrier separating two states.  Therefore, the postulation by some writers that the boundary was merely administrative in its character, delineating two territories subjected to the one British rule within the British Empire has no foundation in reality.`` (p72)  *In 1924 the Secretary of the Colonies said that Palestine was a Mandated State. He wrote ``Negotiations have been in progress for about a year for the conclusion of a treaty with King Hussein of the Hejaz, who is the person to whom the McMahon promises of 1915 (see paragraph 5 of the office memorandum) were given. A draft of the treaty was actually initialled in London in April 1923, but difficulties have since arisen, particularly in regard to Article 2 of the draft, which deals with our position in the Mandated States of Iraq, Palestine and Trans-Jordan. See CAB 24/165, formerly C.P. 121 (24), page 1 (.pdf file 2 of 7)   *Prof. Paul De Waart recited the terms of the Montevideo Convention regarding states as persons of law  and said ``The Palestine Mandate has become an eventful example in respect of all the  constituents of statehood``. He devoted a separate subsection of the chapter to each constituent.  *Robert Eisenman explained that the British extended the concept of ``State Domain`` by defining a new category of ``Public Lands`` in the Palestine Order in Council of 1922 which was subject to control of the Palestine Government by virtue of treaty, convention, agreement, or succession, and all lands acquired for public benefit or otherwise. He observed in a footnote (17) that Article 60 of the Treaty of Lausanne vested all property and possessions of the Ottoman Empire in the governments of the relevant ``successor states`` and mentions that this was specifically applied in ``Palestine`` by the ordinances of 1925-6. See ``Islamic law in Palestine and Israel: a history of the survival of Tanzimat and Sharī'a in the British Mandate and the Jewish state, Robert H. Eisenman, BRILL, 1978, ISBN 9004057307, page 139    *In 1926 Norman Bentwich was the Attorney General of Palestine. He explained that the coming into force of Article 30 of the Treaty of Lausanne on August 26, 1924 allowed the three governments of Palestine, Syria, and Iraq to issue Nationality Acts. According to Bentwich, the guiding principle adopted was that Ottoman subjects habitually resident in the detached territories became ipso facto nationals of the state to which the territory had been transferred. Bentwich said the Nationality Laws transformed the de facto change into a change de jure. See Bentwich, Norman, 7 Brit. Y.B. Int'l L. 97 (1926) Nationality in Mandated Territories Detached from Turkey   *Norman Bentwich wrote that Palestine was an allied successor state to the property and possessions of the Ottoman Empire in ``State Succession and Act of State in the Palestine Courts``, XXIII Brit. Yb. Int'l L. ( 1946) 330, 333.   *Palestine was a party to multilateral and bilateral international treaties with the US, UK, Egypt, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, France, and etc. which described the signatories as ``contracting states``. Those treaties were published in the League of Nations Treaty Series. John Quigley wrote that those treaties constituted evidence that Palestine had the capacity to engage in foreign relations. According to Quigley, the most indicative treaty was one between the mandatory power, Great Britain, and Palestine. He said ``Had Britain and Palestine constituted a single sovereignty, there would have been no point to a treaty between them.`` See page 6   *The United States government formally recognized Mandate Palestine as a foreign state. In 1932 the Executive branch applied the most favored nation provisions of various commerce treaties to Palestine. In Kletter v Dulles the United States District Court, District of Colombia ruled that Palestine was a foreign state and that naturalization under Palestinian law constituted an act of expatriation under United States law: ``The contention of the plaintiff that Palestine, while under the League of Nations Mandate, was not a foreign state within the meaning of the statute is wholly without merit.`` and ``Furthermore, it is not for the judiciary, but for the political branches of the Government to determine that Palestine was a foreign state. This the Executive branch of the Government did in 1932 with respect to the operation of the most favored nation provision in treaties of commerce.`` See Elihu Lauterpacht, International Law Reports, Volume 20, Editors Elihu Lauterpacht, Hersch Lauterpacht, Cambridge UP, 1957, ISBN 0521463653, page 254.    *The US was a state party to the Treaty of Lausanne and the Anglo-American Palestine Mandate Convention of 1925 which provided that Ottoman subjects would become citizens of the States which acquired territory from the Ottoman Empire. The United States established a nationality quota for ``Palestine (with Trans-Jordan) (British mandate)`` See for example Proclamation #1872 - Limiting the Immigration of Aliens Into the United States on the Basis of National Origin, March 22, 1929   *US immigration law, U.S. TITLE 8, CHAPTER 12, § 1101. Definitions says ``(a) As used in this chapter— (14) The term “foreign state” includes outlying possessions of a foreign state, but self-governing dominions or territories under mandate or trusteeship shall be regarded as separate foreign states. The US is a state party to the Montevideo Convention, which it still considers to be ``in force``. See page 450 of United States Department of State Treaties in Force, A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force on January 1, 2010    *In 1995 the State Department published a declassified Memorandum of Conversation between William Crawford Jr. and Mr. Shaul Bar-Haim from the Israeli Embassy (February 7, 1963) regarding Jerusalem. Bar-Haim said ``The use of the term ``Palestine`` is historical fiction; it encourages the Palestine entity concept; its ``revived usage enrages`` individual Israelis``. Crawford said ``It is difficult to see how it ``enrages`` Israeli opinion. The practice is consistent with the fact that, in a de jure sense, Jerusalem was part of Palestine and has not since become part of any other sovereignty. That it was not a simple matter since there was a quota nationality, in regard to which U.S. legislation and regulation continue to employ the term Palestine. See Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Vol. Xviii, Near East, United States. Dept. of State, G.P.O., 1995, ISBN 0160451590, page 341.  *Article 240 of the Treaty of Sèvres, August 1920, said States in whose favour territory is detached from Turkey shall acquire without payment all property and possessions situated therein registered in the name of the Turkish Empire or of the Civil List.''   After the treaty was signed, the High Commissioner adopted a number of new laws to implement the terms of the treaty and Article 6 of the draft Mandate to govern Palestine's State Land