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Not many have just up and left, but then there haven't been many countries created by international accord and completely disregarding the wishes of the poeple already living there.
Actually, there are a fair number of such things but in pretty much every case they are nearly universally abhorred.
I'm guessing if the United Nations came round and said "We're giving Seattle back to the Shoshone, everybody just cope with it" 50 years on there'd likely be an active resistance to this. The Shoshone would be saying "we would live in peace if everybody would just go along with our view of things," scaeagles and Nyphythys would would support the resistance and iSm would say "just move out" to the Seattlites (but only because the Shoshone promise to restore Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion to the glory they once were).
I had a point in there but I seem to have lost it. Oh yeah, looking to historical precent for how to behave here isn't really instructive since there is not really any historic presedent for the issue.
Israel exists, though it really shouldn't. Now that it does, it has the right to protect itself. It has plenty of just cause for the paranoia that has gripped it since pretty much its rebirth. The Arabs also have valid cause for being pretty angry about the existence of Israel. Yet again, I can understand motivations without agreeing with behaviors.
What we should just do is go to Israel and say "we're very sorry, we acted in a moment of guilt when we gave you this land and it was wrong of us. Could we offer you Arizona instead? It has pretty much everything your current territory has (except beaches and olive trees) and the Navajo aren't nearly so heavily armed."
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