I believe peopke are confusing Law with Justice. They are not mutually exclusive, but there are scores of situations where one could argue that´s exactlly what is happening.
I also believe there´s some confusion regarding the Israeli-Arab wars. Israel is still holding the Golam heights and some other pieces of territory that was not theirs, but this has little to do with the palestinian´s plight.
The palestinians did not invade Israel, nor have they participated in any state sponsored wars.
Also, one should not take the word of organizations such as Hammas and Hezbollah as if they spoke for the entire palestinian population. Although these groups preach the extermination of the jewish people, we can hardly pin that cliché on the entire population.
What we are discussing here, is a few settlements that were established after the 1967 border agreement by the UN, and that Bush has greenlighted Sharon to keep. It has nothing to do with lost territory by the egyptians, the syrians or the jordanians. These territories are deep inside Cysjordanian land(west bank), completely encircled by Israeli land. I just thought we should clear that out.
The issue here is wether Sharon has the right to shit all over the peace agreements, and wether Bush has the right to hand him the toillete paper. It´s quite simple.
We have heard Bush claiming several times that he was very much interested in ending the palestinian/israeli conflict, but his recent actions state otherwise.
It´s also pointless to argue anyone´s birthrights and ancestral rights over the land. It´s not the main point anyway. The palestinian people already lived there, they didn´t come from elsewhere. they weren´t put there as a result of some Society of Nation´s agreement, they were just there. And then came the israelis and pushed them off those lands. That is proven, it´s a fact. Wether the israelis had a similar right to live there or not, is purely academical. The fact is, in order to make room for the millions of jews originating from all across Europe, they had to expell the inhabitants of that land. And this is a true example of what i talked about earlier: The law commanded the Israelis to move in, but where´s the justice in that?

The Society of Nations, and later the UN commited a huge mistake, and they still haven´t admited to doing so, over 50 years later.
In the rush to evict the jews from Europe, we created a huge problem. Althought the Allies were fighting WWII under the save-the-jews banner, the fact is that no one really wanted them, so they dumped the proverbial hot potatoe on someone else. In this case the palestinians, who had no way to prevent it, or even had a say in it. They were just stuck with it.

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