The vast majority of the international community does not recognise Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights.

Tl;dr Israel is illegally occupying land, and people who used to live there are…

*checks notes*

Upset about it? Weird.

If Israel has a right to defend itself, why don’t their neighbors have the same rights?

D’oh, of course. Britain said it was probably fine, don’t worry about it. Quick, let’s all enforce the insane borders due to our historical tendency to support misguided decisions made by Britain as it’s imperial power contracted and they used the opportunity to fuck over as many Muslims as possible.

As an atheist, all of this bickering over which version of Abraham’s assertion of paternalistic traditions is more correct is exhausting, but if we’re going to try to make a case that liberal institutions are effective, everyone needs to follow the same rules. Israel doesn’t get a free pass because Britain said they were extra special that one time.

To be clear, I’m not calling for the end of Israel. They’re there now and they have lots of guns so maybe don’t fuck with them, BUT we can’t seriously act shocked when Israeli settlers continue to illegally settle lands outside of Israel’s borders and they face resistance. The behavior is abhorrent and should be condemned as such.