True. He would have been better off posing that as "even if that's what Israel was doing, here's why it's not wrong", rather than implicitly granting an imapplicable point.
More important to me is the fact that if you go to war against someone else, lose, and in the process lose land (or other resources), you really have no grounds for complaint.
I generally agree with that. My disagreement with the author is not on morality, but on what history says about what's likely to happen here. The claim is that history, since it's chock full of annexations, is against Palestinian independence. What I'm saying is that this is irrelevant. Israel has treated the territory as occupied, not annexed, and the historical record for occupied territory is quite different.
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Date: 2002-04-10 06:26 am (UTC)More important to me is the fact that if you go to war against someone else, lose, and in the process lose land (or other resources), you really have no grounds for complaint.
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Date: 2002-04-10 08:33 pm (UTC)