Sykes-Picot

Originally posted by simgrund: ↑

You say 'hurt'?
Israel walked out of Gaza back in 2005
inflicting the 'hurt' on themselves.
Nought return on that dis-investment of
"conquered" territory.
Gaza is a rocket launching pad for Hamas whose charter is
Mid East destruction.
Take a History pill, pibroch.

Here's free installment:

The Right of Conquest is a historically legitimate right of ownership to land after immediate possession via force of arms. It was recognised as a principle of international law that gradually deteriorated in significance until its proscription in the aftermath of World War II following criminalisation of a war of aggression as first codified in the Nuremberg Principles. Further definition of aggression was recommended by the United Nations General Assembly to the Security Council via the non-binding United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314.[1]
Proponents state that this right acknowledges the status quo, and that denial of the right is meaningless unless one is able and willing to use military force to deny it. Further, the right was traditionally accepted because the conquering force, being by definition stronger than any lawfully entitled governance which it may have replaced, was therefore more likely to secure peace and stability for the people, and so the Right of Conquest legitimises the conqueror towards that end.[not verified in body]
The completion of colonial conquest of much of the world (see the Scramble for Africa), the devastation of World War I and World War II, and the alignment of both the United States and the Soviet Union with the principle of self-determination led to the abandonment of the right of conquest in formal international law. The 1928 Kellogg–Briand Pact, the post-1945 Nuremberg Trials, the UN Charter, and the UN role in decolonization saw the progressive dismantling of this principle. Simultaneously, the UN Charter's guarantee of the "territorial integrity" of member states effectively froze out claims against prior conquests from this process.

Cheers,

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Israeli Zionists left Gaza so it could be turned into the open air prison it is today - where Palestinians are persecuted, children and adults deliberately shot and bombed, killed and maimed.

Palestinians are periodically massacred (Israelis refer to this process as “mowing the lawn”.)

Only by supporting the Palestinian call for BDS will this racist cruelty cease and the terrorism used against them end.