Quote:
Originally posted by hannukah harry
last time i checked, "palestinians" didn't exsist pre-1960, so that would be pretty hard to have happened. jews and arabs lived peacefully together for a rather long time, but that started to erode in the 1910's or '20's.
this is why i've never understood how people can claim that it is an illegal occupation. i can not think of any other time in history when the winner of a war has had to give up territory taken in combat. doesn't matter who started it, if there's war, winner gets what it can take. but for soem reason with isreal, that's just not okay, even though it never took territory in an offensive war, it always managed to take land by beating back its attackers.
i just don't get it.
|
I'm sorry, but if you're going to even start with the "Palestinians never really existed" story then we might as well agree to disagree right now. Jews, Muslims, Christians all lived together, as Palestinians, for many hundreds of years. Of course there was the First Palestinian National Congress, formed in 1919, which demanded an independant Palestinian government, but I'm sure this isn't mentioned in revisionist history.
UN (you know, the mother of Israel) law dictates that land cannot be taken through war. Simple as that.
SLM3