The pagers are not gifts handed out to employees on Eid. These were the backbone of a secure communications infrastructure for Hezbollah’s combatants. If you just give it away to someone, your superior won’t be amused if you don’t react to the pager anymore.

A huge part of the land for the Jewish part was the Negev desert. And as I said most of the land in general was state owned. Lots of Jewish immigration was expected, which would quickly change the population disparity as well.

You can read the old documents about how they arrived at the plan on the UN’s website.

Salad is good for you. I won’t provide sources as you will dismiss anything I link anyway. You have enough terms to start googling.

I agree that this war should end. It doesn’t simply end, if Israel stops military operations though.

The League of Nations created a mandate for the foundation of a state for the Jews in the Levante. So there’s a basis in international law for it.

Most of the land on which Israel was founded in 1948 was state owned land and land owned by Jews they had purchased.

No Palestinian would have lost their land, if the partition plan would have been accepted. Instead they chose war and lost it.

Prior to 1900 the land was only sparsely populated in the first place.

More than 800,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and Muslim countries in the region and had to flee to Israel. It was a population exchange like India and Pakistan around the same time.

Parents, who are also combatants in terrorist militias, have a duty to not endanger their children by handing them tactical communications equipment.

This is primarily a call to learn about the history of the conflict.

Palestinian political strategy and tactics have been moderately successful at best, IMHO. It’s worth knowing about them and their history. Black September and the role of Palestinian groups in the Lebanese civil war are also worth learning about to better understand the current situation.

What a novel revelation!

What internal law was violated? https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1

Please point out the war crime you mean. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1

Jews founded a state of their own in 1948. Forgiveness of others is independent of building a safe home for your people.

Something we can agree on.

Children suffer from all kinds of stupid decisions their parents made.

You’re on a soccer field and try to kick the ball into the goal, miss and hit a spectator. The goal was targeted, the spectator wasn’t.

The target was a Hezbollah member, the weapon was a pager bomb, the child is an innocent bystander hit by accident.

Would you care to elaborate?

Sure it can. Only people directly in contact with the pager were harmed. If a child holds it, then it is harmed.

The explosion only had a small area of lethal effect is what I’m saying. There are lots of videos of people close by the explosion being unaffected.

Nakba was in 1948. 1949-1967 Israel did not occupy the West Bank and Gaza. Why didn’t Palestinians establish a state then and there?