Soren wrote on Dec 20
th, 2014 at 11:50am:
Brian Ross wrote on Dec 20
th, 2014 at 1:08am:
Soren wrote on Dec 19
th, 2014 at 8:44pm:
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Actually, the Jews expanded beyond the 1947 borders during their 1948 war, Soren.
And who started that war??
Please explain, Brain.
I don't resile from the fact that the Arabs started the war - however, were they asked if they wanted a foreign nation imposed on them?
Quote:in the 2nd century BCE the Judaeans revolted against the Hellenist Seleucid Empire and created the Hasmonean kingdom. This, the last nominally independent Judean kingdom, came to an end in 63 BCE with its conquest by Pompey of Rome.
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Did the Judeans ask the Canaanites or the other tribes of the region whether they could impose their rule on them?
That of course came through the right of conquest. The UN was supposedly intended to provide collective security for the region yet the General Assembly, before passing Resolution 181 did not ask the Arab inhabitants before imposing a foreign nation on them, whether they agreed to it. Hardly democratic, hardly a decision reached through consensus, now was it? More like Western guilt than anything else.
Quote:The Arabs overrun the Eastern Roman Empire, Iran, Hindu Kush, North West India? Did they ask the people in those lands if they wanted a Muslim Arab rule imposed on them? No.
Different times, different attitudes, Soren. Stop comparing apples and oranges.
Quote: Quote:That does not negate the fact that the Israelis expanded beyond the UN Mandated borders, Soren, in 1948, upon the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Didn't your mother ever teach you that lesson?
The West Bank and Gaza were occupied by Jordan and Egypt. Before that the whole lot, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, was occupied by Britain and France. Before that, by the Ottomans. The Ottoman Empire disappeared and so the British and the French created the successor countries on the map, with UN approval.
With UN approval, Brain. The Jews accepted it. The Arabs of Jordan, Syria, Egypt - parts or vassals of the Ottomans until they all went into a British or French protectorate - didn't.
They accepted the creation of NEW, never before existing Arab countries - Syria, Jordan, Lebanon - but not Israel, a tiny, tiny sliver by comparison.
How can you claim the Jews accepted the UN borders when they immediately expanded beyond them as the historical record shows. Appears to me you don't know the history nor understand it, Soren or the morality and international law involved.
If Israel has profited from it's conquests, why should it be treated any differently to Iraq in 1990? Why hasn't the UN moved to intervene? Still the remnants of that Western Guilt?

As I've said, the decision to create Israel cannot be undone. However, the decision to expand Israel illegally can be stopped. Or don't the Palestinians have any rights in your view? Of course not, they're Muslim (although, not all are).