Palestine granted non-member observer status by UN

[deacvision7]

How in god's name is Palenstine a legit state? They have two governments. At the very least its a three state solution these days.

Yeah, that situation is all kinds of fucked up at this point.

 

[Eagles_Legendz]

France kept the Alsace. If you fight a war and lose, you often lose territory. There is no way Israel will ever give up the Golan Heights, nor should they. It would be crazy to give back a military location from which your country has been attacked dozens of times.

However, they should give up the settlements. They have offered 98% of the land from the 1967 borders.

What Israel is doing with its expanding settlements is in blatant violation of international law. It isn't a debatable issue. The situation is incredibly complex, obviously, but the settlements and territorial expansion is patently illegal.

 

[RJKarl]

Bebe is wrong to expand the settlements. It's stupid and creates problems for both sides. He's posturing for the upcoming election.

 

[deacvision7]

Bebe is wrong to expand the settlements. It's stupid and creates problems for both sides. He's posturing for the upcoming election.

He's a fucking asshole. Always has been.

And stop calling him Bebe. That's awkward for everyone.

 

[89DeaconMike]

If we were truly against recognition of states that condone terrorism we would have to kick out roughly 25-30 members, including Israel. The Israeli state sponsors political assassinations by Mossad. It's one of the only developed nations in the world that allows for their intelligence agency to carry out officially sanctioned assassinations.

Uh you realize that we are one of those.

 

[89DeaconMike]

Another question. How do you think Barak Obama would respond if Native American or Mexican groups were lobbing a few thousand rockets from the Baja Peninsula into San Diego or Los Angeles?

 

[Milhouse]

Bebe is wrong to expand the settlements. It's stupid and creates problems for both sides. He's posturing for the upcoming election.

 

[Eagles_Legendz]

Another question. How do you think Barak Obama would respond if Native American or Mexican groups were lobbing a few thousand rockets from the Baja Peninsula into San Diego or Los Angeles?

That probably depends if we were helping to prevent them from being recognized as a state, and were continuing to build settlements contrary to agreed upon territorial borders into Mexican territory, against essentially every metric of international law.

This is in no way condoning Hamas' actions, but too many people act like Israel shares none of the fault in this.