In 1948, Israel was put back on the map, democratically.

Pro claims I called him racist for saying that if "that coalition" hadn't attacked Israel they would still have their land, which is plainly false: as he didn't make that claim (that Israel wouldn't have stolen the land) until Round 3, I couldn't possibly have called him racist for it or responded to it in any way. Although I'll argue that (all else being equal) Israel would have expanded anyway, what I called racist was the implication that the peace-loving monolith "Jews" were for the partition, the blood-thirsty monolith "Arabs" opposed. He's neither defended that myth nor disputed my correction of it. He says he's saving his disputes for another debate, but he's not started one. Anyway, he evidently felt this irrelevant subject matter important enough to initiate discussion of it in Round 2. He evidently doesn't know enough about Israel to fill 3 arguments, but I do, so I'd have preferred to have known what exactly in my Forum Posts he took issue with (preferably by Round 1, but I'd have settled for Round 3). In the end, Pro reduces his meanderings to one chilling statement: "if someone attacks me, I will defend myself and will take something for my troubles." That's not the language of security preposterously used by Israeli officials; that's the language of compensation! Shockingly, Pro thinks the law's on his side: "This makes perfect sense, as far as the legal system goes." And what legal system is that? Pro and I are both American, and a victim of assault in the US can't take so much as his attacker's stereo, much less his attacker's peaceful neighbors' land. A court of law can (award the victim something owned by the attacker specifically, not just anyone of the attacker's ethnicity), and Israel could certainly have taken its case to the appropriate ones, the World Court (in the case of Egypt and Syria) and the International Court of Justice (in the case of Jihad Al-Muqadas). Of course, Israel would have been ruled against, as international law is quite clear on the subject of annexation (its categorical illegitimacy). In fact, helping oneself to foreign territory makes so little sense, as far as the legal system goes, that a sizeable minority of Zionists opposed it: the proposal to make the borders of Israel consistent with the UN partition was voted down by the Provisional State Council by the slightest majority, 5-4. The majority made no appeals to law whatsoever; its Right faction appealed to biblical promises, and its Left faction under Israeli patriarch Ben-Gurion appealed to the childish notion that two wrongs make a right. Far from retroactively condoning the resulting conquest, the international community has consistently held that Israel is illegally occupying all its 1967 acquisitions. The only of its gains the international community accept are those necessary to make Israel an (unlike Palestine) contiguous state (that established by the 1949 Armistice Agreements that both Gaza's and the West Bank's respective governments accept and that includes the entire Jewish population (again, the international community doesn't, never has and couldn't possibly insist the reciprocal, that Palestine include the entire Arab Palestinian population; the Zionists had made clear in words and action that they were unwilling to live even partially in a binational state). The idea that the Israeli occupation and settlement of Palestine serves some kind of security function has been rejected by political and military experts alike; even if it were true, international law is quite clear that nothing, not that claim nor any other, can serve as a pretense for the permanent occupation Israel's right wing supports in words and left wing supports in action. I don't have time to find sources, but all my facts can probably be found on Wikipedia. If not or if anyone doesn't trust Wikipedia, let me know in the comments section, and I'll find less anonymous sources. I forfeit the "sources" point, of course: two Zionist sources and one non-Zionist source is one better than nothing.