an offensive war in 1948-49 – was illegal, recognized by only two nations in the world.

[] That 1949 armistice – and the armistice line it established – was breached by Jordan in 1967 when it attacked Israel. In legal terms, it then no longer existed.

In the course of fighting a defensive war, Israel moved into Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. Israel was liberating these areas from an illegal occupation. Israel could not be an “occupier” in that Land, as 1) it was part of the original Mandate land, 2) the doctrine of customary international law in Uti Possidetis Juris states that emerging states presumptively inherit their pre-independence administrative boundaries, and 3) there was no legitimate sovereign in the land before Israel moved in.

[] UN Security Council Resolutionreading him a bed time story when he was younger and a therapy session with Dr. Poole, a psychiatrist David was seeing before going to Clockworks. In the childhood memories, David’s parent’s faces are obscured from David, Melanie, and Ptomomy, as if he is repressing them. Both of his parents have passed on and it stands to reason he is suppressing the pain of his loss. The recollections of his mother are light and filled with love as she measures his growth on the wall. Things become more dark when David starts to talk about his father, the astronomer.

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The three of them notice young David in the memory and adult David become upset while his father is reading a book The World’s Angriest Boy in