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Originally Posted by jpsartre12
Your rhetoric belies your position. Israel is "occupying" the area that the UN designated as Palestine and later acknowledged as being the state of Israel.
I'm sorry that the Arabs in the ME didn't like that fact, but tough shit. The Ottoman Empire was defeated, just as they had defeated the Persians and Byzantines and to the victors went the spoils.
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According to International Law a nation is entitled to
temporarily occupy a nation or a territory for reasons of it's own security, but is not allowed to secure those nations or territories for it own corporate or private use as Israel has done in Palestine since 1967.
Also, the Ottoman empire was dissolved in 1918.
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The Ottoman Empire was a vast state founded in the late 13th century by Turkish tribes in Anatolia and ruled by the descendants of Osman I until its dissolution in 1918. Modern Turkey formed only part of the empire, but the terms ³Turkey² and ³Ottoman Empire² were often used interchangeably.
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The current incarnation of Israel was not created until 1948- and the excerpt and link below reveal some of the consequences of the British defeat of the Ottoman empire.
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Map of Israel
Israel was created in 1948, after UN Resolution 181 partitioned the territory of the British Mandate for Palestine into two states for Jews and Palestinian Arabs. The Arabs objected to the creation of the Jewish state and fought a war against it. The Arab side lost the war, and the Palestinian state never really came into being. The territory allotted to the Palestinian state by the UN partition resolution was taken over by Israel and Jordan. About 780,000 Palestinians became refugees.
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I found this paragraph further down in the article interesting too:
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Beginning in 1993, the Oslo agreements promised gradual withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians were hopeful that this process would end in a state for them. However, the peace process was marred by terrorist attacks, Israeli proliferation of settlements and negotiations that seemed to lead nowhere. Following breakdown of the final status negotiations in the summer of 2000, riots erupted in September 2000 when Israeli right wing political leader Ariel Sharon paid a controversial visit to the temple mount, in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, holy to Muslims.. Palestinians refused to accept the agreement offered by US President Clinton in December 2000, and violence continued at least until the beginning of 2005. Israel has reoccupied large parts of the territory it had ceded to the Palestinians in the West Bank during the Oslo peace process, and continues to build settlements on Palestinian land.(click for map). Election of relatively moderate Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian Authority President and the Israeli disengagement plan (withdrawal from Gaza and four West Bank settlements) offer new hope of peace.
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Who is the real aggressor and violator here?
Gem
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