rosends
Well-Known Member
Under international law, you can.That you conquered it in a "defensive war" or not has no bearing. You can't call dibs on land and people through force and there is another sovereign claim to it: the Palestinians disagree and there is this bothering little ight to self determination of people to get by.
Why would giving people the right to return have anything to do with land rights in an area with a sovereign power controlling it? Are you suggesting that every nation allow back in all refugees and give them back everything that was lost? If Israel wanted to give its citizens all they used to have the courts wouldn't have found in favor of the Arabs, allowing them to continue living there as protected tenants.That would be fair indeed...if Israel grants right of return to 1.5 million Palestinians living as refugees and recognizes their property rights. Since Israel doesn't then they can't claim any land that was given as compensation. Either everybody gets what they are supposed to have or everybody gets to keep what they currently have. Israel wants to give to its citizen all that they currently have and used to have, but doesn't want to afford the same to Palestinian hence why their move is criminal and also exposes them to accusations of being an apartheid State since that's exactly how apartheid States work: one ethnic/religious group who uses force and a bias legal system to gain power over another.