re: #28 Buck

Sure, just as soon as you show where in my comment I said that he raised the topic of deportation in even the slightest way.

Just another example of Obdicut putting words in my mouth.

Oh, sorry, Buck, I misread ‘disputed’ as ‘deported’. My apologies, you’re completely correct that I got that wrong.

Anyway, all he argued was that the theological claim was bunk. And it is. But what Israel’s claim to the land was doesn’t matter. The state exists. Many states came into being through many different processes— Israel’s birth is as legitimate as most other countries.

Also, talking about the land being divided up between Jews and Arabs is kind of broad brushed. There’s far more ethnic divisions than just “Jew” and “Arab”, and a lot of the problems in the Middle East stem from the formation of these countries in very arbitrary ways.