HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
#GeoPol #WarInGaza #Israel #UN
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"...but also on the ground realities at the time, such as the #Jewish population's presence and the outcome of the #Arab-#Israeli War of 1948."
I can agree with all the facts that you state here (with the whole post, in fact) as they coincide with my recollection of things I have read and heard in the past. Thank you, too, for the recap.
However, just like President #Biden, I am...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@specked
@wikipedia @marcelliotnet @Oeneus
#GeoPol #WarInGaza #Israel #UN #Jewish #Arab #Israeli #Biden
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...a firm believer in the post-#WWII rules-based international system.*
I strongly resent the 19th century notion that war is the last resort of politics.
As #vonClausewitz stated in his epic book, #VomKriege:
"Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln.“ (Chapter 1, Sect. 24, 1832)
[War is the mere continuation of politics with other means."]
Ever...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@specked @wikipedia @marcelliotnet @Oeneus
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...since the advent of the #OverkillCapacity, *humanity simply cannot afford this option.*
Thus, a won war will not give the victor any legal or moral claim to a territory.
#EthnicCleansings, e.g. by means of #MassDeportations of a population, e.g. of the #Crimean #Tartars**, and then phony #plebiscites years later, or causing a population to flee en masse from a war (e.g. through the #Russian invasion of...
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tatars
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@specked @wikipedia @marcelliotnet @Oeneus
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...including the 2014 coup in #Crimea) *must never be a basis for any future legal claim. The same holds true for state-sponsered land-grabs of territory that is *not internationally recognized.*
I can agree with your analysis with regard to the causes, and I, personally, even think resettlement of *all* ethnicities in the #MiddleEast will be necessary to create viable states and a longer lasting peace for all peoples involved, but...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
@specked @wikipedia @marcelliotnet @Oeneus
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...simply *not because a state had the better military and created these facts.*
The erroneous "might makes right" concept, still espoused by the #Bush Admistration, as well as autocrats like #Putin and #Xi, would have desastrous consequences for the world order (e.g. #Ukraine, #SouthChinaSea, #Taiwan, etc.).
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Excellent interview with #President #Biden by historian #HeatherCoxRichardson on #InternationalPolicy:
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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"#History is written by the victors."
Yes, and this is why the international community must form alliances that protect the vast majority of nations: they are not mighty.
In fact, it is an old concept derived from #Aesop / #Aísōpos n the 7th-6th century BC: His fable of the Bundle of Sticks, also known as the Old Man and His Sons.
https://www.thoughtco.com/aesops-fable-the-bundle-of-sticks-118589
However, it is time to re-invent this concept for the 21st century: not...
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@HistoPol @Oeneus History is written by the victors. While I also think that's terrible, that's the way it is. Every war Israel has fought has been defensive. Every country that has wanted peace with Israel has received peace.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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...religion nor race, or family ties must be the (sole) unifying factor for the #BundleOfSticks, but the joint belief in a better world with a rules-based order, where the may punish the aggressor, if possible by peaceful means (#LastResort theory.)
https://www.thoughtco.com/aesops-fable-the-bundle-of-sticks-118589
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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...PS:
Is the fable only part of the bible* or also the Torah, I wonder?
"#Ecclesiastes picked up the moral in his proverbs, 4:12 (King James Version)
"And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken."
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