# When in human history should reasonable people find a "cut-off" of the right of title by conquering? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 8, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-human-history-should-reasonable-people-find-a-cut-off-of-the-right-of-title-by-conquering/542464 "2010-06-08T19:58:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 37
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-human-history-should-reasonable-people-find-a-cut-off-of-the-right-of-title-by-conquering/542464/37 "2010-06-09T19:29:58Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > So? If it should have been theirs, and is not, how is that unreasonable? 😕 The thread asks: When do we “cut off” right of title? Mexians aren’t bombing us to get Texas back. Germans aren’t bombing Poland to get their possessions there back. And Palestinians would be prospering if not for cynical Arab “leadership.” (And do note, as others in the thread point out, that title to much of the disputed land was transferred to Israelis _by Arabs_.) > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The complaints are about a pattern of behavior, and the attitudes behind them, that continue to this day, and could be redressed if there was any recognition of an obligation or desire to. Does that help clarify it? 😕 Gaza fires rockets into Israel to kill Israeli civilians and proudly gloats that it’s at war, yet Israel is then condemned for asking an embargo-running ship to submit to inspection. :smack: Arab oil is dear, but anti-Semitism available very cheaply. Does that help clarify things for you? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-in-human-history-should-reasonable-people-find-a-cut-off-of-the-right-of-title-by-conquering/542464)._