Israel moves to legalize unauthorized settlements

[Mnementh]

Kasz216 said:

Mnementh said:

killerzX said:

palestaine, but thats a made up country.

Palestine has the same legitimation as Israel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine

Not really.  I mean, Palestine rejected that.  It's like having two brothers fight over their fathers possessions, one of them agreeing to a legal deal, the other disagreeing, using other methods to get what he wants, but fails, ends up with less then he would of gotten then uses the past deal as a basis on what they should get.  (Despite having rejected it).

I don't agree that there is no legitamcy to a palestinian state, but there is less so then there is an Israeli state.  If there was a one or the other situation (which there isn't and it should never get to that) you'd have to go with Israel.

The "made up" country part though I think is probably a reference to the fact that there never was really a historic palestine.  The area pretty much always being a part of some other distant empire, except when being ruled by the jews.

Yeah, you are right to a degree. But the UN-plan was the legitimation for the formation of israel, so saying that Palestine is no country borders on withdrawing legitimation to Israel. sure, the plan (especially the borderlines discussed at that time) cannot be executed unchanged today. But I think there is no other solution, that the existance of two indepent countries: Israel and Palestine. The situtation at the moment is unbearable.

And the made up country-part and historic precedents: at some time in history always was a nation constructed. So every nation is disputable from a historic standpoint.