Reply #47: Saying that means nothing.

[msmcghee]

Israel took the West Bank in a defensive war. Israel will dispose of the West Bank as Israel sees fit.

The UN is free to put together an army and impose its legal opinion on Isreal if it wishes. Of course, such a proposition is laughable. The UN can't even impose it's will in Darfur.

The West Bank will be disposed of as part of a lasting peace agreement with Arab Palestine - as Israel always intended. Foolish efforts like the political posturing of the World Court will do nothing but postpone that day of settlement further out into the future and make such negotiations more difficult.

Even world bodies can not violate basic principles of morality with their laws and legal posturing without suffering the consequences imposed by reality. When they do, you get things like the War on Drugs. Like the UN treatment of Israel on the West Bank through various resolutions and now "legal advisories", such posturing makes matters much worse and results in far greater suffering and deprivation than the original problem caused.

I know we disagree on this so I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm just pointing out the reality - which we now both get to watch unfold over the coming months. I invite you to come back a year from and show me how my view was so wrong today.

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