The_Walrus wrote:
I think there is. Obviously there's a time lag - Crimea is immediate so we all know how bad it is - but the Golan Heights annexation isn't much more "legitimate" just because it happened longer ago. Obviously with things like this the old phrase "possession is nine-tenths of the law" comes into play, so the fact that Putin's annexation of Crimea is more recent than the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights does make international recognition of Golan less bad than international recognition of Crimea.
The Israel-Palestine situation is obviously a much more complicated situation which can't be compared to those two. It's more comparable to the China-Taiwan squabble, except reversed.
Um no. It's comparable to the Native Americans.
The US removed the elected leader in Ukraine with armed Neo-Nazis. Then the new government outlawed Russian in Crimea where around 95% of the people are Russian speaking. Crimea used to be part of Russia and there's always been Russian army bases there.
Israel invaded Syria and stole land through war and have basically annexed it. They've done the same in Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon.
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23 Mar 2019, 4:43 pm
