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No, "Israel's lands" were unambiguously and properly given by the previous ruler of the area, the British Empire. It was in no way stolen from Palestinians, as this event did not touch private land ownership in any way. The very next day, every neighboring Arab country declared war and...

That there was enormous inefficiency is a famous fact of Middle Eastern militaries to this day, it does not change the fact that the war declaration came at quite literally the soonest possible opportunity. The Muslim world promptly decided to remove the Jew, the Jew fought back, and the Jew...

In living memory, soverignty over the region has been held only by the British and Ottoman Empires, and the Israeli government that the British formed. The two-state solution was denied by a war of extermination declared by every neighboring Muslim country the day after Israel became a state...

The purpose of matrilineal-only passage of status is that it's inarguable proof of heritage, but with modern genetic testing we've become able to verify paternity to the same degree, as well as the overall ethnic composition. It's an extremely whack insistence on tradition-for-its-own-sake to...

Actually not a fundamentally illogical position, weirdly enough. It's the exact scenario described by the Paradox of Tolerance, but that's just a matter of non-ideal outcomes to absolute policies, not a true logical contradiction. Granted, the logic typically in use is driven by double-think...

The Israelis were aiming at the nearby artillery and missed. They can very clearly demonstrate the errors responsible, and the UN can be blamed for doing absolutely nothing, officially, about the artillery being so close that such minor errors resulted in their facility being shelled. And...