Is the Occupation of the West Bank Morally Justified?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Sure there is. It's called doing the right thing.

Handing territory to an entity that wants to destroy you is stupid, not right.

 

[Ria_Longhorn]

Was it Israel's land?

Here's Greco-Roman historian, Cassius Dio (164 c.235) on the matter as to whom the land belongs to: "At Jerusalem, Hadrian founded a city in place of the one which had been razed to the ground, naming it Aelia Capitolina, and on the site of the TEMPLE ... he raised a new temple to Jupiter.

This brought on a war of no slight importance nor of brief duration, for the JEWS deemed it intolerable that foreign races should be settled in THEIR city and foreign religious rites planted there." [All emphases mine] (From Cassius Dio, Roman History 69.12.1-14.3)

Poster, where were the "Palestinian" when the Jewish People were defending their land? Cassius Dio makes no mention of them.

 

[Ria_Longhorn]

There is no moral argument for the continued occupation. Israel is only hurting herself.

One of the oldest extant bible is the 4th Century CE Codex Sinaiticus (its usage here is the saliency of its date composition, 4th Century CE, and not necessarily its theology). In it you will read:

"But after Herod had died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, 'Arise, and take the young child [Jesus] and his mother, and go into the land of Israel ..." -- Matthew 2: 19, 20

And:
"[Y]ou [gentiles] were at that time without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel ..." -- Ephesian 2:12

Nope, no mention of any Palestine. It would interest the reader to know that in the New Testament, there is no mention of Palestine nor Palestinians. That's right, Jesus never met an "Palestinian". In the Hebrew bible, "Philistia is mistranslated as Palestine.

 

[Silver Cat]

In using the Just War Theory to evaluate Israel’s occupation, we can distinguish between two of its actions: the initial military advancement into the West Bank during the 1967 War, and the ongoing occupation after the war officially ended.

But the war was not officially ended. They didn't sign a peace treaty yet.

 

[Silver Cat]

Here's Greco-Roman historian, Cassius Dio (164 c.235) on the matter as to whom the land belongs to: "At Jerusalem, Hadrian founded a city in place of the one which had been razed to the ground, naming it Aelia Capitolina, and on the site of the TEMPLE ... he raised a new temple to Jupiter.

This brought on a war of no slight importance nor of brief duration, for the JEWS deemed it intolerable that foreign races should be settled in THEIR city and foreign religious rites planted there." [All emphases mine] (From Cassius Dio, Roman History 69.12.1-14.3)

Poster, where were the "Palestinian" when the Jewish People were defending their land? Cassius Dio makes no mention of them.

Actually, "Palestinians" were called "Pelasgians" in the Greek tradition, and in the Greek tradition, they were described as ancestors or forerunners of the Greeks.
In the Jewish tradition they were called as Philistines, and they came there just before Jews.

 

[Mindful]

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[rylah]

The UN disagrees with you.

Thank G-d,
means we're doing right then.

Tried to ask the logical followup question - does the UN have any legal authority?

What the UN is bound by, is the inherited charter from the League of Nations,
that specifically forbids negation of any national rights of the Jewish people in that territory.

In fact the liberation of Jerusalem and Judea by the Jewish nation,
set a historic precedent for all indigenous nations seeking re-constitution.

That's called historic justice.

 

[irosie91]

The UN disagrees with you.

DNA says you are all related.

you met up with some talking DNA dingbat?
ALL HUMANS are related. Can you come up with anything worth posting?

 

[irosie91]

You just posted that Jewish soldiers shouldn't be afraid of having stones thrown at them.

the best answer to stone throwing is THROW THEM BACK There are places on the head that a stone--
thrown expertly, can be deadly. People should be trained in stone throwing. Even BETTER!!! The answer to incendiary devices should ALSO be THROW THEM BACK -----a barrage of gasoline filled
balloons should answer every "molotov balloon" launched from Gaza. It's good to get back to basics. **rise up early in the morning and do unto them
before they do it unto you AGAIN**
uhm......KOOM BA BOKER.....??? this way, dingbats of the world cannot complain ---
"DA JOOOS HAVE BETTER WEAPONS"

 

[rylah]

the best answer to stone throwing is THROW THEM BACK There are places on the head that a stone--
thrown expertly, can be deadly. People should be trained in stone throwing. Even BETTER!!! The answer to incendiary devices should ALSO be THROW THEM BACK -----a barrage of gasoline filled
balloons should answer every "molotov balloon" launched from Gaza. It's good to get back to basics. **rise up early in the morning and do unto them
before they do it unto you AGAIN**
uhm......KOOM BA BOKER.....??? this way, dingbats of the world cannot complain ---
"DA JOOOS HAVE BETTER WEAPONS"

WTF don't I have better work to do BA BOKER ...??
I prefer the "don't bring a stone to a gun fight" and the sevenfold response.

Even granny said :

 

[Ria_Longhorn]

Here's Greco-Roman historian, Cassius Dio (164 c.235) on the matter as to whom the land belongs to: "At Jerusalem, Hadrian founded a city in place of the one which had been razed to the ground, naming it Aelia Capitolina, and on the site of the TEMPLE ... he raised a new temple to Jupiter.

This brought on a war of no slight importance nor of brief duration, for the JEWS deemed it intolerable that foreign races should be settled in THEIR city and foreign religious rites planted there." [All emphases mine] (From Cassius Dio, Roman History 69.12.1-14.3)

Poster, where were the "Palestinian" when the Jewish People were defending their land? Cassius Dio makes no mention of them.

Actually, "Palestinians" were called "Pelasgians" in the Greek tradition, and in the Greek tradition, they were described as ancestors or forerunners of the Greeks.
In the Jewish tradition they were called as Philistines, and they came there just before Jews.

the Philistines were, a non-Arabic, non-Semitic people from the Greek Isles who invaded the southern coast of the Land in the 2nd half of the 12th Century BCE.
We know from the 13th Centur

Here's Greco-Roman historian, Cassius Dio (164 c.235) on the matter as to whom the land belongs to: "At Jerusalem, Hadrian founded a city in place of the one which had been razed to the ground, naming it Aelia Capitolina, and on the site of the TEMPLE ... he raised a new temple to Jupiter.

This brought on a war of no slight importance nor of brief duration, for the JEWS deemed it intolerable that foreign races should be settled in THEIR city and foreign religious rites planted there." [All emphases mine] (From Cassius Dio, Roman History 69.12.1-14.3)

Poster, where were the "Palestinian" when the Jewish People were defending their land? Cassius Dio makes no mention of them.

Actually, "Palestinians" were called "Pelasgians" in the Greek tradition, and in the Greek tradition, they were described as ancestors or forerunners of the Greeks.
In the Jewish tradition they were called as Philistines, and they came there just before Jews.

The Philistines were a non-Arabic, non-Semitic people from the Greek Isles who invaded the southern coast of the Land in the 2nd half of the 12th Century BCE.
We know from the 13th Century BCE Merneptah Stele, that mentions Israel,
that the Children of Israel preceded the Philistines.