". or we could just forget about any disputed long winded obscure defining guidelines
and simply rely on our own experience, knowledge, and reasoning"
Seems fair enough to me as Israel has more-or-less hijacked the definition and those who go along with them - - well, go along with them, as can be seen here.
those defending Israel
Israel has moved so far to the right that even senior ministers and Generals are becoming alarmed at what's happened.
I would hesitate to compare what is happening now, but as Israel has made all definitions unusable - why not?
Jim Carroll