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Originally Posted by Pointman
This is a complex issue that needs to be broken down further.
First, the very existence of Israel state within its 1967 borders. It's a fact, should be accepted, and nobody should try to roll it back. World peace is built on respect to existing countries and their current borders, no matter how unfair and random were the events that led to its creation. You can take pretty much any country and question why it exists at all, and why it exists wherever it is and not in some other place, and why their borders are what they are.
In most cases there are no good answers for those questions. Why Canada is in northern part of North America? Why Switzerland is in Alps? Why Sweden is in Scandinavia? Why Romania and Moldova are different countries? Why Trinidad and Tobago is one country? Why Lichtenstein is a separate country? Why Canada-USA border is where it is, and not 10 miles more to the south? For most part, it just so randomly happened.
Still, whatever countries exist and whatever borders they happen to have, they should be respected. Countries have the right to exist just because they happen to exist now. That's good enough reason. Trying to undermine it will lead to chaos.
The very different question is Israel's further attempts to grab land, particularly to colonize West Bank. This is illegal and should have no place in 21st century. I even would have gone as far, as to say that Israel should withdrew and let West Bank govern itself. But Israel did it with Gaza and look how it ended. As of now, I see colonization of West Bank as illegal and wrong, yet best possible solution for the time being. Maybe there's better solution that I fail to see.
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Every existing country has one owner.
Planet Earth, and we are just guests.
And if we humans keep acting like savages Planet Earth is going to evict us forever.