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Originally Posted by corpus vile
Homelands aren't fictional, I'm in mine right now as I post this. This is just weird college campus bullshit.
It's irrelevant the claims some make re ancestral homelands, as such claims don't nullify Israel's right to exist just cuz you personally disagree and again there were Jews in Palestine for thousands of years. And even if ancetral claims have no merit, it still doesn't nullify Israel's right to exist. They fought for it and won it, just like many other countries, the end.
No, the ancient 'right of conquest' has not been recognised in international law since 1945, for obvious reasons. Israel's right to exist depends on the UN Partition Plan of 1947 and Israel's recognition by the UN two years later (though the Israelis hadn't actually complied with the 1947 borders and had taken more land than they were supposed to have -- they then took a whole lot more in 1967, but the UN has never considered this legitimate).
The number of Jews remaining in Palestine up to 1900 was quite small. The only Jewish member of the British Cabinet in 1917, Edwin Montagu (Secretary of State for India), strongly opposed the Balfour Declaration that year, claiming that it was antisemitic in motivation (it sought to appeal to 'Jewish influence' in Moscow and Washington, particularly a couple of known Jewish advisers to Woodrow Wilson) and that it would lead to a disastrous resurgence in antisemitism around the world. He wasn't wrong, but Hitler's crimes made the establishment of Israel inevitable by 1947.
Last edited by 57 On Red; 04-28-2024 at 03:19 PM.