# airstrikes on Gaza **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 11, 2014, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airstrikes-on-gaza/692856 "2014-07-11T14:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 206
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airstrikes-on-gaza/692856/206 "2014-07-13T17:37:54Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > Really??? > > So all of what is Israel today was purchased from people who had the right to sell it? Pffft. Irrelevant to what I said–and gets us into a pointless discussion about “Israel today”, which isn’t the same as Israel as the Zionists planned it, Israel as the British drew it up, or Israel after various wars. > [@](#): > > By “they” you mean the zionists right? I don’t answer nonsense questions. > [@](#): > > Who pretends that? Largely people like yourself. > [@](#): > > So that justifies the formation of the state of Israel in the middle of occupied land? As much as it justified the formation of Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon etc. All countries that didn’t exist until the 1940s and were formed in the “middle of occupied land.” Your concern about the formation of Israel as opposed to the formation of those other countries seems to be that the percentage of Jews in Israel was “too high”, I take it? > [@](#): > > What percentage of the people in the state of Israel a year before its formation were in favor of its formation? What percentage of the people in the state of Iraq was in favor of its formation the year before? None of these States were created with regard to local opinions. What is your particular focus on Israel about? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/airstrikes-on-gaza/692856)._