Why do you support Israel's right to exist?

[Simfan34]

Silesia could have quite easily been designated a Jewish state.

Which would have involved expelling the local Germans and would have been morally superior how?

[Gamecock]

I suppose Israel has a "right to exist" as much as any other country. We like to thumb our noses down on the way Israel was created but seriously, how many countries in the world don't have controversial foundational issues?

I also think it's weird that the Israel-Palestine conflict garners so much attention from some of the left, there is a lot more worse things in the world to save your outrage for.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Silesia could have quite easily been designated a Jewish state.

Which would have involved expelling the local Germans and would have been morally superior how?

Have you ever heard the phrase "Final Solution"?  Certainly if one were to create a Jewish-state after World War II by dispossessing those already there, Silesia was a more moral option than Palestine.  Even more moral would have been a Jewish state centered on Nuremberg.

[dead0man]

Yes, because living surrounded by the people that just tried to wipe your nation out sounded like a great idea in 1947.

[Vosem]

Because the Jewish people have a right to a safe homeland; because they've been there for a while; and because the land is held literally holy in their religion.

I also think it's weird that the Israel-Palestine conflict garners so much attention from some of the left, there is a lot more worse things in the world to save your outrage for.

A lot of attention is brought to the conflict by anti-Semites.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Silesia could have quite easily been designated a Jewish state.

Which would have involved expelling the local Germans and would have been morally superior how?

On one hand, I could say they had it coming.

But given how the returning Jews were treated in many parts of Europe, and the Soviet expansionism that followed, I don't see this plan working out well for the Jews of Europe. Settling in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine was the only feasible option.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Because the Jewish people have a right to a safe homeland.

A tiny state on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean sea is not exactly safe.  It won't last more than a couple centuries, just as the Crusader states of a millennium ago did not last.

[Velasco]

Perhaps the Crusader States in the Holy Land are a good point, indeed. By the way, Palestine and concretely Jerusalem, is a sacred land for Jews, Christians and Arabs too.

[Frodo]

Slightly deviating from the topic -at what point does a two-state solution become an impossibility? 

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Slightly deviating from the topic -at what point does a two-state solution become an impossibility? 

1967.

[MyRescueKittehRocks]

Every reason to support it.

[GMantis]

I don't support it for any of the first four reasons and think that it's creation was a great mistake. I support their existence only because by having existed for over 60 years, Israel's existence is now an established fact and destroying Israel would mostly be affecting people who have no responsibility for what happened when Israel was founded and would be just as great an injustice as the one that happened to the Arabs in 1948.