The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117493   Message #2554069
Posted By: robomatic
31-Jan-09 - 07:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
I think your tendency is to assume an overall argument, using the UN as some sort of standard, incorporating the following:

1) Israel's existence is illegal
2) Israel's self-defense is illegal
3) Israel's political and media attempts to explicate its actions are illegal

This overlooks that:
1) Israel was attacked on its 1948 independence by forces from all the nations around its UN sanctioned borders.
2) Israel's territory and borders are the result of wars of self-defense and as such are as legal as any other country's borders, including the United States.
3) Israel took in Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim lands in comparatively similar numbers to Arab refugees going the other way, only now Israel is expected to take them on as well. This is inherently unbalanced and unequal no matter who requires it, even if it is your interpretation of certain, but certainly not all, UN resolutions.
4) Every State is entitled to defensible borders, and in the case of such a miner State as Israel, this includes the Golan and the West Bank.


There are a couple of facts on the ground that are also being ignored.

1)To all intents and purposes Jordan constitutes an existing Palestinian State.

2) There was all sorts of opportunity for Arab countries to accept a peac with Israel at the 1967 borders. This was of course prior to May 1967.