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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/As-I-See-it-Israels-Foreign-Ministry-moves-to-be-right-404441
The Argument for Justice for the Jews
(Jerusalem Post) Melanie Phillips - The belief that the Jews in Israel are interlopers into a land that historically belonged as of right to Palestinian Muslims is a total inversion of history. In fact the Jews are the only people, as a people, for whom Israel was ever their national kingdom. In the 1920s, the international community acknowledged this in the Mandate for Palestine, which committed Britain to restore the Jewish national homeland by settling the Jews in what is now Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. That legal Jewish right to settle all the land has never been abrogated. To say that Israel's actions are illegitimate and even illegal is a lie. The Arab aggressors are the real interlopers. Throughout history the claims of any aggressor which has tried to exterminate a nation have been considered forfeit. To argue otherwise is to appease murderous aggression and abandon its victims to injustice, lies and further attack. The argument for Israel has to be the one that until now has not been made: the argument from justice. The writer is a columnist for The Times (UK).