Ben Hoffman wrote:Throughout history, the victors in wars get to keep the land. That's the way it is.
This may have been the way of it in the past, but does not mean it has to be this way in the present. If we look at the Second World War or recent wars, nations have helped to liberate other nations by military invasion.
If we did things the way you say, France would be an American state, parts of Europe would belong to the British, etc. Yet at the end of the Second World War, conquered nations were returned to the local people and the conquerors eventually packed up and wandered back home. Happy that free people had been restored.
So obviously, just because it was so in the past, does not mean that is how it must always be done.
Ben Hoffman wrote:If there was such a thing as Canaanites today ...
Looks like the Canaanites are still around:
Living Descendants of Biblical Canaanites Identified Via DNABen Hoffman wrote:... and they fought Israel for the land, the winner would own that land.
So now the goal posts get moved. Usually Zionists blame the Palestinians for not wanting to share the territory with the immigrant Jews. That not sharing is unfair and justifies the Zionist paramilitary takeover of the land. Now when the shoe is juxtaposed to the other foot, and the Zionists are faced with sharing the same way the Palestinians were - and they react with the same refusal - rights of conquest are thrown around. How Hypocritical.
Surely the honorable Zionists would share the land with the Canaanites descendants, just like how those nasty Palestinians should have shared the land in the first place.
Whats that? No? oh you rotten bastard!