"The question none of its claimants ever wants to clarify is how far back we should go back to define it."
Actually that's the easiest thing -- the internationally agreed legal borders that, even now, one still sees on various maps.
"Weren’t Palestinian ancestors nomads?"
Some of them. OTOH some of them founded the earliest cities which spawned some of the most important early civilizations. The Phoenicians for example. It was the ancestral Hebrews who where the nomadic shepherds in the mountains.
“ the internationally agreed legal borders that, even now, one still sees on various maps”
And what makes that “border” any more legitimate than those that preceded it?
Borders, internationally “agreed” to or not, as well as countried have been appearing and disappearing since the concept first emerged. It seems to me that Palestines borders have less legitimacy than many others who have vanished before it.
Sure, history is messy. But law is all we've got. BTW, the withdrawal would only be the first step -- Israel would then start *purchase* negotiations -- what she wants, she *pays for* rather than steals. Radical, I know.
"The question none of its claimants ever wants to clarify is how far back we should go back to define it."
Actually that's the easiest thing -- the internationally agreed legal borders that, even now, one still sees on various maps.
"Weren’t Palestinian ancestors nomads?"
Some of them. OTOH some of them founded the earliest cities which spawned some of the most important early civilizations. The Phoenicians for example. It was the ancestral Hebrews who where the nomadic shepherds in the mountains.
“ the internationally agreed legal borders that, even now, one still sees on various maps”
And what makes that “border” any more legitimate than those that preceded it?
Borders, internationally “agreed” to or not, as well as countried have been appearing and disappearing since the concept first emerged. It seems to me that Palestines borders have less legitimacy than many others who have vanished before it.
Sure, history is messy. But law is all we've got. BTW, the withdrawal would only be the first step -- Israel would then start *purchase* negotiations -- what she wants, she *pays for* rather than steals. Radical, I know.