| VXIII said: Israel is a modern term. Your are talking about the history of Jews in general. Jewish populations were a part of others within different countries and empires, they have no land of their own. Palestine , however is a country by the modern definition. Btw, I'm talking about the right of people in a land, not their politicals leaders, they change all the time. And yes, if they had a land that was stolen from them, it is their right to get it back. |
The Jews were the last people to have an independent state there. It's been the possession of foreign empires at every other point in its documented history. And those "others" made it pretty clear that the Jews didn't belong in their countries. The Germans made it clear that the Jews didn't belong in Germany. The Poles made it clear that the Jews didn't belong in Poland. The Arabs made it clear that the Jews didn't belong in Arab countries (except Saddam Hussein, who generously allowed the Jews to return to Iraq several decades after they were expelled and had their property stolen; in retrospect, Saddam doesn't seem like such a bad guy).
This isn't the point I was making tho. The point is that a lot of Muslims don't like it when non-Muslim entities use the Koranic rules for self-defence against Islamic entities. Which is too bad. Since the Islamic State wants to take the Koran literally and declare war on the non-Muslim world, the rest of the world should play them at their own game and give the Islamic State everything they have. If the Islamic State wants to fight Britain, Britain would be within its rights to do everything within its power to destroy the Islamic State. As should the United States if IS wants to fight US. If the western countries threatened by IS act exactly the same way that the Koran instructs Muslims to act when attacked, IS's sympathisers have no right to complain. Both sides would be playing by the same rules.
