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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Amid uproar, US denies change in policy recognizing Golan Heights as Israeli
2021-06-26
[IsraelTimes] After false story picked up by some Hebrew media, Lapid says people spreading rumors are deliberately trying to undermine new Israeli government and ties to US.

The US State Department on Friday denied that the Biden crime family administration
...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
 planned to rescind recognition of Israeli illusory sovereignty over the Golan Heights, after a false report sparked an uproar in Israel.
Posted by:trailing wife

#10   Capturing territory by military force and then annexing it? Correct me if I'm wrong

As I recall, Israeli tanks got as far as within 20 kilometers of Damascus before stopping because a truce was forced upon them, yet they only retained the heights of Golan overlooking the Israeli farms below.

Ditto Israeli tanks and Cairo, where they only kept the Sinai when the war was over, and most of that they traded to Egypt for peace.

So Israel in both cases could have completely conquered each country, yet did not do so and did not keep nearly as much territory as they’d overrun. Your initial assumption is incorrect, Knuckles Slererong5344. Consider yourself corrected at the front end as well as the rear of your argument.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-06-26 19:59  

#9  /\ You are seldom wrong. Your #8 is no exception.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-06-26 18:28  

#8  Correct me if I'm wrong

We didn't enter the war in Europe, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. It came to us. Yeah, I know FDR was egging them on, but even he knew he couldn't get a declaration of war against them with the focus on Japan and Pearl Harbor.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-06-26 18:27  

#7  Capturing territory by military force and then annexing it? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that why we joined WWII, to put a stop to that?

That's actually the practical basis for the territorial boundaries of every nation on earth. The reason for every war is piled high and deep with flowery rhetoric, but the ultimate reason any country risks its future - the lives of its young men - is parochial interest. And there's nothing wrong with that. If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2021-06-26 17:29  

#6  One might point out that there's no such country as Syria anymore.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-06-26 16:43  

#5  #1 Capturing territory by military force and then annexing it? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that why we joined WWII, to put a stop to that?

Isn't that how we got our new states from California to Texas? Annexation of defeated Mexican's territory I mean.
Posted by: jpal   2021-06-26 16:34  

#4  You can hit virtually every place in Israel with a 105 from the Golan Heights. If the Syrians wanted to keep them so badly, they should have behaved more responsibly.
Posted by: Cesare   2021-06-26 13:53  

#3  Son married Victoria Nuland. Wish I hadn't read that.
Posted by: Jeremiah Bumble6939   2021-06-26 13:42  

#2  Correct me if I'm wrong

Territorial Changes After World War II
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-06-26 13:37  

#1  Capturing territory by military force and then annexing it? Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that why we joined WWII, to put a stop to that?
Posted by: Knuckles Slererong5344   2021-06-26 12:30  

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