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agesboy posted...

Israel didn't exist before WW2 and draws its authority from the Bible, yet now control about 80-90% of the country. Even as a devil's advocate it's kinda weird for you to be defending them PO

Where do you think Jewish diaspora originally came from? Israel is more or less the area of the historical Judea, after the Jewish rebellions, the Romans renamed it Palistina as a way to separate them even more from their land, and expelled them. Even before WWII there was a movement to establish a national home for the Jewish diaspora, and after the holocaust, that movement gained a lot more traction. As far as Israel controlling so much of the land, that's what happens when Arab coalitions kept attacking them and losing in '48, '56, '67 and '73. The current Israeli government has been pretty awful to the Palestinians, but they've also had to fight for their survival in a region with countries that won't even recognize their right to exist and would just as soon exterminate them.

Golda Meir said it best "If the Arab lay down their arms there would no more war, but if Israel lays down its weapons there would be no more Israel."