>From Thomas: >> 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.
A controversial yet shrewd observation. >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. It tells me countries like Israel had better weaponry. What does it tell you? Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
