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>Palestine only exists today because Israel gave them land that they (Israel) won from wars that neighboring countries started.

The internationally accepted borders of Israel are based on the 1949 armistice. Israel did not "give" Gaza or the West Bank to Palestine, those are simply the borders. Israel started the 6-day war in 1967 that led to the present occupation.

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That's inaccurate. Egypt was shutting down Straits of Tiran which started the war:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straits_of_Tiran

Closing the straits is not a reasonable justification for war. Would Cuba be justified in invading or bombing the US under your rationale?

U.S. invaded Panama in the 80's....

Won't see me supporting it.

Your support or not support isn't a factor with regarding who started what war over what reason though.

Certainly so. Just to say that the fact that the US did something similar does not make it a justifiable cause for war.

Justifiable isn't what's being debated here though.

That's a moral judgement and subjective to each individual.

You said "Israel started the 6-day war in 1967 that led to the present occupation."

Which I said was inaccurate due to the fact that Egypt shutdown the Strait of Tiran to Israel. Egypt started the war.

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