What about Israel's 'right of conquest'? Farah squares off with Poe and Margolis.

WorldNetDaily ^ | September 29, 2002 | WorldNet Daily/Frontpagemagazine.com

[Jacob Kell]

As the hostilities in the Middle East continue to rage, the question of Israel's right to its land consistently surfaces. One controversial notion connected to this ongoing conflict is whether or not the state of Israel has a "right of conquest" to its land. Does Israel have the "right" to its land the same way the Americans do today, after having defeated the Indians? To discuss this phenomenon and other aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, WorldNetDaily.com welcomes Richard Poe, a New York Times-bestselling author and cybercolumnist who currently runs the popular blogsite RichardPoe.com and Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and broadcaster who is the author of "War at the Top of the World - The Struggle for Afghanistan and Asia"; and its own founder and CEO, Joseph Farah. The moderator for this discussion is Jamie Glazov, the associate editor of Frontpagemag.com.

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

Question #1: Gentlemen, there exists a notion that the state of Israel has a "right of conquest" to its land. (See, for instance, Robert Locke's Frontpage column, "Hobbes and the Middle East" and Richard Poe's "Israel and the Right of Conquest." If we assume that this notion is valid, then the Israelis have just as much right to their land "by conquest" as the Americans have to theirs.

In the context of this theme, let me begin with this question: Is it hypocritical for anti-Israeli Americans to question Israel's right to the "occupied territories" when they, at the same time, show absolutely no inclination to return their own nation’s "occupied territories" to the Indians?

Farah: I think the whole premise of the question is wrong. If there are indeed "occupied territories" in dispute in Israel and the so-called Palestinian territories, they are occupied by Yasser Arafat's forces, not Israel. Gaza was under Egyptian control until 1967, not "Palestinian." Judea and Samaria, historically Jewish communities, were under the control of Jordan until 1967, not "Palestinian." Yet there was no movement to create Palestinian homelands of those territories until after Israel's defensive victory in the Six-Day War.

[Mo1]

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[ikka]

Eric Margolis sure comes across as an idiot.

[Jacob Kell]

What else did you expect, his boss over at the Toronto Sun is a Pakistani Muslim, I believe. Did you think that he wouldn't suck up to him? To be fair, he wasn't always a dork, he was pretty right on the money when it came to the cold war and Soviet communism. However, it seems that lately he's changed and not for the better.

[William Terrell]

Right of conquest is self evident. You whip ass, you occupy. Somebody whips your ass, you lose it. "Rights" depend on success, which is why we're losing ours.

Among nations, there ain't no justice except the arena.

[Jacob Kell]

My mistake. I must have read an old or inaccurate article.

[Jacob Kell]

I think that Hyam Maccoby should take a look at this, but I don't think it'll do much good. He's an anti-Christian bigot and a fool.