View original postReviving old threads... ugh sorrry.
No problem, at this point any activity on this board is better than none.
View original postYou could claim that it would be better to just sit quiet and keep the Golan without any pronouncements. That might be a good pragmatic strategy, which personally fits better with Netanyahu's strategy of managing the conflict.
Yes, it would. Israel continuing to occupy the Golan isn't particularly controversial - especially with Syria in the state it's in now, one imagines that even the 'Syrian' inhabitants might be happy to be under Israeli protection. But annexing it? That's one thing for chunks of Palestinian territory, which you could argue never really formed a real state with defined borders anyway. It's quite another for territory belonging to another independent state, that was never part of the old Mandate and which Israel can only claim by simple right of conquest. If acquiring territory by right of conquest without any assent of the defeated party through a peace treaty is a thing now, then what grounds does the US have left to object to Russia claiming Crimea, or to China's expansion attempts in the South China Sea? What grounds did they have for the First Gulf War in 1991? Or is it all just 'might makes right'?
View original postBut, seriously, is there anyone that expects Israeli Syrian negotiations, now ?
Not any time soon, no.
Maybe it's just me, but... Mitch McConnell is really rather impressive.
- 07/05/2019 07:33:10 PM
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So is Tywin Lannister. Anyone who doubts McConnell's intelligence and cunning is a fool. *NM*
- 08/05/2019 02:05:22 AM
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Yes. But also, he's right about really a lot of it.
- 08/05/2019 10:49:40 PM
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Pfft Trump is miles better than anyone the Dems have
- 08/05/2019 11:37:52 PM
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Better at what, exactly?
- 09/05/2019 09:02:14 PM
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Why is the Golan thing retarded ?
- 27/05/2019 12:57:03 PM
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Because of the precedent it sets.
- 27/05/2019 08:20:42 PM
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