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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)
Show PostThat's not the UN erasing a claim, that's Israel itself, at the negotiating table, agreeing the territorial question stayed open.
Show Postwhen "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.
Show PostSo 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..
Show PostThat 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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