rawls2 wrote:
What came first the chicken or the egg?
Thats what I see going on here in this forum. Israel started it, no, the other guys did. What is it going to be? You cant have it both ways. Is Israel a state or not? If they are, they have every right to engage their neighbors in battle when the neighbors are commiting acts of terror. If they are not a state, why are they still there? Surely the UN would have passed a resolution to rid Palestine of all Israelis.
Surely the UN would have passed a resolution, I can't believe they haven't passed one yet....LOL
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 (S/RES/242) was adopted
unanimously by the UN Security Council on November 22, 1967 in the aftermath of the Six Day War. It was adopted under Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter [1].
It calls for the "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" (see semantic dispute) and the "[t]ermination of all claims or states of belligerency".
United Nations Security Council Resolution 478, declared that the 1980 Knesset law (the Jerusalem Law) declaring Jerusalem as Israel's "eternal and indivisible" capital was "null and void and must be rescinded forthwith". This resolution instructed member states to withdraw their diplomatic representation from the city as a punitive measure. Most nations with embassies in Jerusalem complied, relocating their embassies to Tel Aviv. Most countries had already located their embassies in Tel Aviv prior to resolution 478.
On another note: the
most recent incident (the kidnappings by Hezbollah) was obviously initiated by Hezbollah. Israel have a right to respond but they do not have the right to respond in the way that they have. Practically all governments worldwide have condemned their response (except for the US government - who are Israel's lapdogs).
The kidnapping by Hamas is just the latest in a long line of tit-for-tat attacks that have continued since the fundamental crime committed - the driving of millions of Palestinians from their homes to create the state of Israel in Palestine.
As regards your 'what have they contributed?' comment: that comment borders on an imperious, racist attitude. Israeli lives > other humans lives? Everyone is equal my friend. How good a human you are is not proportional to your contribution to society - every person on this planet should have universal fundamental rights that are equal among all men, women, children, etc. I really don't get what you're driving at with your comment. Please enlighten me. I hate all superiour attitudes and find them deeply offensive. It's attitudes like that caused the Brits to blaze an oppressive trail of empire across the world.
Last edited by CameronPoe (2006-07-23 13:55:34)