Cletus,
Of course I support Israel’s right to exist but within the pre-1967 internationally recognized borders. The international law does not care the war is defensive or aggressive.
A country cannot annex other people’s territories to its own through war, period. The reason for this is that it can be debatable whether a war is defensive or aggressive. Different sides have different opinions on who started the war. One side can easily agitate the other side to fire the first shot or stage a fake attack and then use that as a legal basis to go to war. For example Germany justified its invasion of Poland by staging a fake Polish attack (known as Gleiwitz incident). If you have all the world’s media on your side, you can justify every action you take.
Why do we go far. The US attack on Iraq was based on false intelligence and unproved links between Saddam and Al Qaeda. The majority of American people fell for it! This shows how dreadful it can be to ignore the international law and agencies, in particular the UN. At the end, it is to the best interest of the world that we resolve conflicts through negotiations and peacefully rather than through war and military might.
