Is Israel a legal state?

Question

What right does anyone in the world have to ask such a question? And not ask a similar question about 22 Arab states.

"The fact is that today's Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today's Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, Muslim Sherkas from Russia, Muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door. The civil and tribal wars between Yemenites (from Yemen) and Kessites (from Banu Kais of Saudi Arabia) ... are well known among Palestinians.

The current PLO and Arab claim (and mainstream media regurgitation of it) is indeed a very distorted version of `recorded history' and can only qualify as pure Orwellian propaganda. In fact, putting aside all the myths and propaganda, the only area that would qualify historically as truly Arab land, is the Arabian desert peninsula.

Unfortunately, it seems that Goebbels was correct in stating that if a lie were repeated often enough, it would come to be "perceived" as truth.

No doubt, some Arabs have lived in the area of the Mandate of Palestine for many centuries, but not as many of them as had the Jews. What is more, Jews had lived in Arab lands since times preceding Islam itself. And yet, these Jews in Arab lands were never regarded as citizens of the Arab lands they lived in and were unceremoniously expelled in the years subsequent to Israel's establishment. In other words, residency alone did not confer national rights on those who inhabited an area. Nor did it make a people out of congeries of Arabs and other nationalities that had come to the area of the Mandate of Palestine while the Jewish people were restricted. The nations of the world recognized this after World War I when the League of Nations determined that the geographical area called Palestine was to become a homeland for the Jewish people.

Answer 1

What surprises me is there are 11 islamic countries surrounding little itty bitty Israel and not one islamic nattion has ever defeated Israel, If it werent for Condi back in this summer pushing for peace Israel would have turned lebannon into a heap of rubble.
Nevermind has-no-balls-a went into israel slew 8 soldiers and kidnapped 2 of them. whay aint no one belly-aching about them 2 kidnapped soldiers?

As far as im concerned they have held their own and deserve to be called a country not a state.

If any islamic or kumbaya loving liberal disagress then get the hell out, join hamas, osamas renegade group or has-no-balls-a and wrap your old lady's face up like an extra in a kung-fu movie. another words, put up or shut up.

I hear ya there was an AP article that headlined "Israel has settled illegally on Palestine property" or something like that. I mean what a bunch of hog-wash. But it was an american reporter writing for the AP.

The way I see it nuke jordan, syria and Iran and set them idiots 100 years back. Thats the real solution. As long as left wing media is in control people are going to beleive Israel is a land of criminals, next thing the media will be saying the holocust never happened just like that idiot president of Iran said a while back.

The way i see it a rattlesnake is a rattlesnake you think you might tame it but sooner or later its gonna bite you.

Bush do the US and democrats a favor and nukem before you leave office. By the way Bush, GOOD JOB keep your Chin up,

thank you kindly
an ex middle east vet

Answer 2

Israel has every right to exist. There was no nation there when Israel was declared inside the boundaries which were set for it by the UN partition. The nation of Israel was illegally attacked by the surrounding Arabic states and ably defended itself. If any territory was taken by this action, it is the rightful property of Israel.
The need for a Jewish state was horribly illustrated by the holocaust (which DID happen) during which most of the world sat on its global butt while millions of Jews were murdered. Israel is here to protect this persecuted people.
I am not jewish myself, but I am sick and tired of seeing excuses made for all the anti-semitism which still riddles the entire world. If the palestinians want their own state, and want Israel to stop its military actions against them, they should stop sending child-bombs over the border to murder people including kids at bar-mitzvahs and college kids at pizzarias, and then get to work and BUILD a state the way the Israelis have. Nobody is going to hand them one while they sit in their squalor.
At one time I had sympathy for the Palestinians, but no more. There is no excuse for sending a scared ten year old kid over the border as a bomb to kill people peacefully going about their business. Any state where 78% of the people support the wholesale murders of my countrymen on 9/11 can simply pack up their bomb making equipment and make a one-way journey to Hell, as far as I am concerned.

Answer 3

Legal, by what authority is any state legal or not?

Israel is the only state in the region that has legitimacy, b/c it's essentially freedom / individual-rights oriented. No other state around them even comes close.

Answer 4

It's strange to talk about a country being "legal" or "illegal". A state survives by its ability to define and defend itself. That goes for all countries.

Answer 5

No - it was created by illegal jewish immigrants from Europe in 1948 who formed terrorist gangs and murdered the british adminstration of Palestine then carried out ethnic cleansing on the local population

Answer 6

are u serious? of course it is. the war of independence from britain was in 1945 until 1948 and they won

Answer 7

Jordan:
Pakistan:
Iraq:

were never "states"--

they all found the cartographers pen by being "created and legitimized by external powers."

Israel has as much right to exist as any of them.

Answer 8

The answer to your question is is YES. The U.N. declared it so.

If we want the U.N. to work we have to abide by it's mandates.

Answer 9

Yes.

Answer 10

The great LIE is right.

Israel is probably more legal than the US.