ChrisL
Diamond Member
P F Tinmore, et al,
I think you need to be more specific than that.
(COMMENT)That is true. However, about a hundred years ago or so conquest became illegal.Little Pumpkin, there's just no reason for me to answer to your fact regarding European colonization... your "fact" is simply not relevant to the point I made.I see you have no answer to the basic fact, which is, if Europeans had not facilitated the colonization of another continent by Europeans of a particular religion, the current problem between colonizer and colonized in Palestine would not exist.
As far as your characterization of me. leave it at home. You couldn't be more deluded.
It is literally irrelevant to the situation. Israel was a recognized nation, it was invaded, certain Israelis sided with the invaders, and the invaders lost. Those are facts not in dispute.
I refuse to be drawn into your retarded rationalizations regarding who chucked the first rock at whom so many generations in the past. Such stories from both sides are full of lies, and the lies weigh equally against each other. Peddle your dopey crusade to someone who will share in your mawkish outrage--I'm not a buyer.
But if you want to dispute the conclusions drawn from the indisputable facts presented, I'm an eager audience. But if you're just going to catalog all the crimes you perceive that were committed against your preferred people, then I'm telling you now I will not be persuaded by such bullshit emotional manipulations.
The indisputable fact is that Europeans went to another continent, expelled the people living there and created a nation.
Ancient history. The fact is that MOST lands were taken over by one group or another.
Israel came in late in that game.
What has Israeli taken by conquest?
What the law actually says is:
Article 5 A/RES/3314(XXIX)
14 December 1974This is basically a restatement of UN Charter, Article 2's proscriptions which has been interpreted as to mean that it prohibits the acquisition of territory by war; and of UN Security Council Resolution 242, which states "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war."
1. No consideration of whatever nature, whether political, economic, military or otherwise, may serve as a justification for aggression.
2. A war of aggression is a crime against international peace. Aggression gives rise to international responsibility.
3. No territorial acquisition or special advantage resulting from aggression is or shall be recognized as lawful.
However, the West Bank and Gaza Strip were territories in which the parties to the conflict have entered into Peace Treaties. Israel did not take any territory from the Palestinians by either war or aggression.
Most Respectfully,
R
Yes, and let's be honest. The only reason why there is a Palestine is because of the Arabs who hated the idea of sharing ANY of their land with the hated Jews. Palestine was specifically designed to be a thorn in the side of Israel, I think that much is clear.