A.P. Richelieu
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Which was an Israeli victory and mostly an Egyptian affair. My previous points remain. The difference is barely 6 years (1967-1973) in this case.
Yes, in theory the US could have annexed parts of Iraq or Afghanistan as well and after occupying it for decades proceed to ask the locals if they wanted to remain a part of the US or return to their previous "owner". That might be legally possibly (I am not a lawyer or expert in International Law) but it would raise serious questions for obvious reasons. Much like Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights do.
As of now I do not know a single country on the planet that does not recognize the integrity of the Syrian state. UN does at least. You have numerous states today which do not control their entire territory de facto. Yet if an outside force decided to occupy such areas and annex them it would be considered illegal from what I know of. International law can be interpreted in many ways and usually the strongest party dictates what is "wrong" and what is "right".
Fact of the matter is that the Golan Heights are Syrian territory.
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israe...lateral-moves-on-golan-would-breach-int-l-law
You mean back in 1948 when Israel was founded after flooding the modern-day territories of Israel and Palestine with foreign migrants who ethnically cleansed the native Palestinians from Jaffa, Al-Quds, Haifa, Netanya etc.
You don't think that this was perceived as a security threat and an act of war by neighboring Arab states?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
There are valid and invalid reasons to go to war according to International Law,
and foreign migrants into the British Mandate of Palestine is not a valid reason for
Egypt, Jordan and Syria to go to war.
Neither is the founding of the state of Israel.
The reason why a lot of Arabs left is debatable. It is clear that Arab states called for them to leave
temporarily until Israel was ethnically cleansed from Jews.
If that was why Arabs left, or because of generally fear from Israelis only they know.
What is clear, is that if they stayed, with few exceptions they were not harmed.