Why are borders in 1861, 1919, 1945, 1948, 1956 or 1967 or any other time morally superior?
Palestinian revanchism is a recipe for endless wars. Revanchism is the desire to reverse territorial losses.
Revanchism is linked with irredentism, the conception that a part of the cultural and ethnic nation remains “unredeemed” outside the borders of its appropriate nation-state.
• A return of German revanchism would plunge Europe back into war as Germany marched to reclaim Western Poland and the Sudetenland lost after the massive ethic cleansing in 1945 and the moving of Poland 1/3rd to the left after Potsdam.
• The Balkans and Eastern Europe would be plunged into war to revise the 1945 and the 1919 boundaries.
• Irish revanchism and irredentism over protestant Northern Ireland led to war from 1922 onwards.
The just war doctrine of the Catholic Church found in the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is a convenient summary as any on what is and is not a just war, lists four strict conditions for legitimate defence by military force:
- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
- there must be serious prospects of success;
- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated (the power of modern means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition).
Hamas does not have any serious prospects of success in its attacks on Israel. Therefore any military action by Hamas is an unjust war
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Aug 06, 2014 @ 13:08:24
Palestinians want to have their own country just as Israel has, Indeed just like israel.
I do note you say nothing of israel ever expanding its own territory.
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Aug 06, 2014 @ 13:19:42
Should Germany march to reclaim Western Poland and right the wrongs of the ethnic cleansing of the Sudetenland?
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Aug 07, 2014 @ 09:25:54
You do realise one of the main reasons Israel took as much land as they did back in 1948 was because terrorists murdered Palestinians in the 1,000s. some of the leaders went on to become PM’s of Israel. Hamas would be green with envy to have murdered the numbers they did and thus ‘encouraging’ Palestinians to leave their homes and land.
There was an agreement for some time recognising both territories so your analogy is fanciful.
Of course what you are saying is it was fine to create the state of Israel but that is all. somewhat hypocritical!
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Aug 07, 2014 @ 09:27:53
Gaza was never part of Israel.
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Aug 08, 2014 @ 11:46:28
so are you denying Israel is taking more and more land under the guise of settlements.
If terrorists changed and became solid politicians in Israel ( and Northern /Ireland for that matter) why is Hamas all that different?
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Aug 08, 2014 @ 12:11:22
The Gaza Strip has never been part of the State of Israel.
About 8,000 Jewish settlers lived in the Gaza until September 2005 when they and the troops that protected them were withdrawn.
Israel made a very specific policy choice to disengage with the Gaza Strip
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Aug 08, 2014 @ 16:01:07
I an unsure why you are concentrating there as I am unaware of any Israeli settlements there.
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Aug 08, 2014 @ 16:35:23
Hamas does not govern the west bank.
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