Nobody is making any eternal claims on this thread other then the pro Palestinians who think all of Israel is occupied territory.
Israel is legitimate because its government was elected by a majority of its people, all of whom have full voting rights. It is the most legitimate government in the middle east, being the only fully democratic one. Tunisia is second.
That's bullshit and again cherry picking any wild and grossly ridiculous historical centuries old claims on one small portion of Israel
Learn to fucking read. Nobody is making any centuries old claims. Israel was legitimate in 1948 because in 1948 it had the support is a majority of its citizens. It is legitimate in 2015 because it has the support of a majority of its citizens.
Nobody but you is talking about history. You seem to think that the will of a majority of citizens should be overturned by historical claims. Only you are making that argument and is is a bullshit argument.
Democracy in the here and now legitimizes Israel.
Full stop
I have stated that I believe Israel has the right to exist in the international bounders set out and ratified by the UN Resolution 181. PERIOD The UN and international community consider Israel's expansion as occupied territory. According to the fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 (Reaffirmed in 2005)
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The UN and international community consider Israel's expansion as occupied territory.
Wrong. The UN recognized the boundary change in 48 that resulted from the Arabs losing the illegal war of aggression they started. That territory is recognized as Israel. Also you can't apply a 1949 convention to a 1948 war particularly since it concluded with Jordan signing a peace treaty recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the land.
The UN has no opinion on where the border should be after the 1967 war and has called for it to be negotiated. The UN had certainly challenged the settlements and been heavily critical of them but that is not a claim that the territory they are on isn't Israeli because the border itself has never been settled.
Once a peace treaty is signed if that land is in Israel there is no wrong done.