Reply #23: Yeah, well the UN kept on picking on South Africa too... [View All]

What is it with so many resolutions against some of these states? Could it have something to do with the fact that they continually do the wrong thing? After all, SA scored a long long list of resolutions aimed at it and its system of apartheid. Any argument from supporters of apartheid that SA was just being picked on and why should they respect the UN comes across as exactly the same tactic those who complain about resolutions aimed at Israel use nowadays...

The late 1940's was definately not a time where the culture was of the attacked nation had the right to take over any land that was not part of its sovereign territory. It was a time of decolonisation, and territory taken by force during WWII was returned to the people who had been invaded. So that territory Israel gained in 1948 is NOT a valid lesson for today at all...

It's the ceasefire in 1949 that ended up marking the borders of Israel, and making Israel quite a lot larger territory wise than it had been when Israel declared its independence. Most people seem to accept that Israel can keep that territory, and though I don't really see any great moral argument to support that argument, I've never given it much thought. But it's the land-grabbing since then that makes me think a very satisfying solution and one that would please none (which is why it'd be so damn satisfying) is to go right back to the UN partition plan and make those lines the borders of Israel and the Palestinian state...

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