Quote Originally Posted by DDT
Quote Originally Posted by Cyphyr
The wall is presented as a purely protective measure when in actual fact it is also being used to pre-empt a future negotiated settlement and cement Israel's landgrab of Palestinian territory.
There is no land grab by Israel. That land (The entire West Bank and Gaza) was already forfieted and lost to Israel by Palestinian Arab acts of war. As the victors, Israel gets to decide what land, if any, she will give to her Arab enemies. That was the risk that Arabs took when they challenged Israel to war. They can build that wall any where they feel like.
It's funny, but if these territories that were "controlled" by Arab countries were in fact parts of these countries, Israel could have lawfully annex them as territories of states-aggressors that were used to commit an aggression. But since those territories were not parts of the states-aggressors but just were "controlled" by them, it's unlawful to annex them.

So, Israel does not get to decide what land, if any, she will give to her Arab enemies.