Sara Briggs

Sara Briggs

sarabriggs1948.bsky.social

Shalom! I'm Jewish, American & I love cats; I'm disabled & wheelchair-bound. I enjoy a friendly debate. NO DMs. I try to follow everyone back. (Bli neder)

👤 Joined on 15 July 2026

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and while Israeli textbooks write about them being united to help the Palestinian cause, when you read actual books on the matter you learn that the Arab states actually used the Palestinian cause as a justification for their own selfish reasons (eg to stop the Jordanian empire from expanding)

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That's not the UN erasing a claim, that's Israel itself, at the negotiating table, agreeing the territorial question stayed open.

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when "the prior holder had seized that territory unlawfully" he applies it specifically to Jordan and Egypt's contested 1948 takeovers of the West Bank and Gaza.

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So I went to look this up cause the first and second sounded a bit bizarre imho the way you're using it and then I found out he was never talking about Syria..

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That logic would just as easily hand the whole mandate to the ~90% Arab majority who actually lived there. And it's a minority legal position (Eugene Rostow, Eugene Kontorovich, Israel's own 2012 Levy Report)..

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