HollisHurlbut wrote:
Iconic Irony wrote:
In all honesty, Israel should be triple the size it is today but instead gave their conquered lands back. WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT? The good guys do, kind of like how America and Britain gave France, Germany, Italy, Japan etc etc back after we defeated them.
This. Is. Awesome.
Seriously, they want a "two state solution"? They already had one. The British Mandate was split into Israel and Jordan. There are your two states. What they really want now is a
three state solution. Presumably, that's just the stepping stone to a
one state solution: Palestine.
What the fuck are you talking about? There was no British mandate of Israel. It was the British mandate of Palestine, which Jews were given approval to immigrate to. They took it too far and the British imposed restrictions, then the Jewish immigrants obtained control of the country through systematic economic deprivement of the Arabs there and through terrorism.
The British then left and the UN drew up the borders for the two state solution.
HollisHurlbut wrote:
There is no reason at all Israel should be under any obligation to cede the West Bank and Gaza to the "Palestinians" or anyone else. A bunch of nations started a war and Israel won it. You know what generally happens when you lose a war? You also lose some territory. And that's exactly what happened here.
Yes there is. It belongs to them. They have rights to the land under international law. Each side were allocated some land by the UN and this should not have changed whatsoever, since as we all know expansion of borders through military conquest is totally illegal. These borders have changed dramatically.
HollisHurlbut wrote:
I'm of the opinion that if Israel really wants to give up the West Bank and Gaza, it should return them to Jordan and Egypt. A thousand bucks says there's still no Palestinian state after that happens, but you wouldn't be seeing bombs go off in Amman or Cairo. There's a reason they go off in Tel Aviv and Haifa, and it's only incidentally related to the West Bank and Gaza.
I'm of the opinion you should shut the fuck up because you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
Last edited by Bertster7 (2010-03-16 07:12:50)