Reply #79: "Illegal" is inaccurate

[XanaX]

even according to UN resolution 242 which calls for the exchange of "territories" and specifically, intentionally, not "THE territories." Nor is the prsence of Jews in disputed areas contrary to the Geneva Convention, no matter how much you'd like it to be.

The so-called West Bank is very much part of the historical Jewish homeland. Simply because it fell outside the 1949 armistice lines doesn't make it any less so. Most of Judaism's holiest sites are located there. When the 1917 Balfour Declaration called for the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland in Mandatory "Palestine," it consisted of what is now Israel, the disputed territories, and Jordan. In 1922, Churchill sliced off Eastern "Palestine," renamed it "Trans-Jordan," and forbid the purchase or settlement of Jews there, restricting them to the 40% that remained of "Palestine."

The problem with many so-called "progressives" is that they are in favor of self-determination for all peoples---EXCEPT the Jews.