Israel is an illegal illegitimate country that should not have it's own sovereign existence
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
It is neither illegal nor illegitimate in international law as it was established by the League of Nations, but the decision and the way it was done was bad enough to have created a festering sore in which Israel now, is as bad as Hamas.
It was partitioned from Palestine, which been a British Protectorate against the Turks.
Since then Israel has hardly helped herself by her own actions including land-grabs, to co-exist with the Arabs. The actions of Hamas and their ilk are terrorist, yes, but while we cannot and must not condone them, we can understand them. They see in turn, Israel backed by the USA as a threat to the Palestinians' right to live as they wish in their ancient land.
While for the USA to have decreed unilaterally - albeit foolishly agreed by the Israeli government of the time - to move this foreign nation's capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, was one of the worst decisions of modern international politics, short of actual war.
I don't know if it was a deliberate move to further US interests, or an appalling crass blunder by people with little or no international diplomatic experience, though anyone could have realised it would make a delicate situation even less tractable. Jerusalem is a key city for all three Abrahamic religions, hence it had been kept fairly neutral. That move, by a foreign nation many Muslims dislike intensely for its interference in the Middle East, badly damaged or even destroyed what delicate neutrality and uneasy peace had existed. Sadly not enough other countries condemned the move in sufficiently uncertain terms.
It was partitioned from Palestine, which been a British Protectorate against the Turks.
Since then Israel has hardly helped herself by her own actions including land-grabs, to co-exist with the Arabs. The actions of Hamas and their ilk are terrorist, yes, but while we cannot and must not condone them, we can understand them. They see in turn, Israel backed by the USA as a threat to the Palestinians' right to live as they wish in their ancient land.
While for the USA to have decreed unilaterally - albeit foolishly agreed by the Israeli government of the time - to move this foreign nation's capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, was one of the worst decisions of modern international politics, short of actual war.
I don't know if it was a deliberate move to further US interests, or an appalling crass blunder by people with little or no international diplomatic experience, though anyone could have realised it would make a delicate situation even less tractable. Jerusalem is a key city for all three Abrahamic religions, hence it had been kept fairly neutral. That move, by a foreign nation many Muslims dislike intensely for its interference in the Middle East, badly damaged or even destroyed what delicate neutrality and uneasy peace had existed. Sadly not enough other countries condemned the move in sufficiently uncertain terms.
