vlad321 said:
Boy, isn't that jumping to conclusions right off the bat. But I will be honest, Israel has received immeasurable amount of help from the west, starting with that one US partitioning, or whatever it was called. Really, there would not be nearly as many problems had people just kept their traps shut and not partitioned Palestine to begin with, and then give material support to Israel. The truth is, without other nation's butting in there probably wouldn't be an Israel in the location it is right now. I don't want to personally attack you, but it is really hard not to given your strong bias on the issue. You also ignore what I jsut said, in that Israel shouldn't have existed in the first palce to begin with, or at least not in the location it's presently at. |
There was never a US partitioning...
I'm going to take a stab and guess you mean the way the UN divided things...(mostly a UK concern) which caused the arabs to say "No" and then invade Israel along with a bunch of allies... lose and sign an arminstice which is now considered the 1967 boredrs.
Which neither the Palestinians or Israelis really agree on because well... arminstices aren't actually legal agreements of borders. Those happen in ceasefires.
So Palestine still thinks things should go by the UN resolution that they rejected(Outside Hamas anyway which is even more extreme) while Israel believes that the borders are still undefined as such a thing can only be negotiated during the ceasefire, and no official borders have ever been drawn up and agreed on.
I don't know how one couldn't logically agree with the Israelis on this point.
Emotionally you could make arguements, but by the letter of the law... by not agreeing to the partitioning, there are no defined borders.
Had the west NOT intervened. Those areas would still be under Ottoman control. Since they only came under control by accepting western help by revolting agaisnt the Ottomans... in promise that they would be free of the Ottomans. Worked out for basically everywhere but Palestine because the british promised it to both.
Hence the need for a split.








