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Originally posted by sgtclub
You missed my point on this entirely.
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I don't think I did. You justified the retention of occupied territories on the basis that it's traditional for "war" victors to do so --- a proposition with which I'm not sure I agree, at least as far as the 20th century was concerned. After all, we conquered the Nazis, then gave Germany to the Germans --- sorta. I still say war conquest is a bad analogy for what happens to Israel's borders. Besides, conquest is not always accompanied by the lynchpin of international recognition of the new borders.
See Iraq/Kuwait, 1991. The world is filled with disputed territorial claims, some of which go back to centuries-old conquests. If nobody recognizes your border as your border, it's not legitimate. Of course, if the U.S. alone recognizes it, it might be a different matter, but that's not a principled distinction.
