Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
R C Macaulay wrote:
Howdy Vorts,
Gosh, golly, gee folks, here we go again with the Jews and arabs.
This time the "wedge" is oil. The USA uses oil like toilet paper and
everybuddy knows wez intitled to it.. or we think we do. We have
enough oil provided we turn off
This didn't endear the nascent nation of Israel to the locals, and
doesn't seem to put the possession of the land of Israel on the
firmest of legal footings. Oh, granted, God said it was theirs, so
under God's law it's clear cut, but under international law it's
rather hazier, I think; unlike God's law, international law doesn't
technically recognize the principle of "might makes right".
I think that the principal of the gain of territory by military conquest
is an established principal of international law. In particular, this
applies to aggressors, who subsequently loose the war that they start.
The problem is that people of a certain political persuasion don't want
the rules to apply to the followers of Judeo Christian Civilization.
IMHO, the Philistines repeated losses to the Israelis should tell you
something, particularly since they out number them 10 to one.
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