Not a state, no matter what else you care to dredge-up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_PalestineMandatory Palestine[a][4]was a geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in theregion of Palestineunder the terms of theLeague of NationsMandate for Palestine.
After anArab uprisingagainst the Ottoman Empire arose during theFirst World Warin 1916,BritishforcesdroveOttoman forcesout of theLevant.[5]TheUnited Kingdomhad agreed in theMcMahon–Hussein Correspondencethat it would honour Arab independence in case of a revolt but, in the end, the United Kingdom andFrancedivided what had beenOttoman Syriaunder theSykes–Picot Agreement—an act of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Another issue was theBalfour Declarationof 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment of aJewish "national home"in Palestine. Mandatory Palestine was then established in 1920, and the British obtained aMandate for Palestinefrom theLeague of Nationsin 1922.[6]
During the Mandate, the area saw successive waves ofJewish immigrationand the rise ofnationalist movementsin both the Jewish and Arab communities. Competing interests of the two populations led to the1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestineand the 1944–1948Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. TheUnited Nations Partition Plan for Palestineto divide the territory into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, was passed in November 1947. The1948 Palestine warended with the territory of Mandatory Palestine divided among theState of Israel, theHashemite Kingdom of Jordan, whichannexed territory on the West Bankof theJordan River, and theKingdom of Egypt, which established the "All-Palestine Protectorate" in theGaza Strip.
Mandatory Palestine was designated as aClass A Mandate, based on its social, political, and economic development. This classification was reserved for post-war mandates with the highest capacity for self-governance.[7]All Class A mandates other than mandatory Palestine had gained independence by 1946.[8]
Etymology
The name given to the Mandate's territory was "Palestine", in accordance with local Palestinian Arab and Ottoman usage[9][10][11][12]and with European tradition.The Mandate charter stipulated that Mandatory Palestine would have three official languages: English, Arabic and Hebrew.
In 1926, the British authorities formally decided to use the traditional Arabic and Hebrew equivalents to the English name, i.e.filasţīn(فلسطين) andpālēśtīnā(פּלשׂתינה) respectively. The Jewish leadership proposed that the proper Hebrew name should beʾĒrēts Yiśrāʾel(ארץ ישׂראל,Land of Israel). The final compromise was to add the initials of the Hebrew proposed name,Alef-Yod, within parenthesis (א״י), whenever the Mandate's name was mentioned in Hebrew in official documents.[14]The Arab leadership saw this compromise as a violation of the mandate terms. Some Arab politicians suggested "Southern Syria" (سوريا الجنوبية) as the Arabic name instead. The British authorities rejected this proposal; according to the Minutes of the Ninth Session of the League of Nations'Permanent Mandates Commission:
The adjective "mandatory" indicates that the entity's legal status derived from aLeague of Nations mandate; it is not related to the word's more commonplace usage as a synonym for "compulsory" or "necessary".[16]
