Victoria, BC

It’s like there’s some sort of cut-off date right after WW2 where people feel nobody should be allowed to invade anyone else.

Is like they made this whole solidarity league to prevent and dissuade belligerent invasions.

[blah blah, israel is pure and perfect]

You want to be a little more objective.

Which borders should a Palestinian state be given?

Personally, I say go back to 1967, do a "land back" divestment of territory taken and make reparations consisting of both money and supportive resources. With international support, given the role of the international community.

Why do you feel that the border results of that particular war matter more than any other war (that came before, or that has come after)?

Because that was, as I understand it (which is far from complete), the final straw for the Palestinian nation's quest for autonomy and security.

Nobody seems to be able to answer these questions without massive hypocrisy when the same logic is applied to other countries whose borders were also formed as the result of wars.

It's not hypocrisy to grow and change over time, as long as one acknowledges the failures of the past.

It's like there's some sort of cut-off date right after WW2 where people feel nobody should be allowed to invade anyone else.

Exactly! This is the "growing and changing" I spoke of earlier. We know better. We know that nations need autonomy and security, that countries need autonomy and security, and that individuals need autonomy and security. In the years and decades following the two world wars (especially WWII), a very large fraction of the planet came together under the auspices of international organizations, including the UN, in recognition of those facts with the desire to fix things, once and for all.

There have been and will continue to be missteps and outright failures. Neither should cause us to dismiss the goals or give them up as a lost causes. Instead, every failure should rally us in a redoubling of effort.

In my opinion, that is what we are seeing, a redoubling of effort in response to an abject failure to conform to the new standards we have set for ourselves as a global community.