Arguably, A Just War

[KnightofChrist]

[quote name='hot stuff' post='1159982' date='Jan 9 2007, 03:18 PM']
In fact you have yet to give an examples of God calling the Israelites to attack first. You have shown them

defending themselves
reclaiming the land that was taken from them
where are the examples of those first strike Israelites?
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Correction I have shown where God defended the Israelites by preemptively attacking the waring Egyptian army.

Also again simply because the Israelites were reclaiming land does not change the fact that when God commanded them to retake the promised land, it was a preemptive strike a first strike of [u]that[/u] war. As I tried to state previously, a war is defined by the start of open conflict and the end of open conflict. The war which removed the Israelites had its beginning and its end. The war which God commanded His people to retake the promised land was a [u]different[/u] war, a [u]different[/u] time. No one who was alive at the time when the Israelites were removed were alive when God commanded the Israelites to retake it.

Even using words such as "reclaim" or "retake" would suggest a new start, a new begining. They had to restart. The removal of the Israelites was a different event in space and time, it had its begining and end.
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Hundreds of years later, generations later[/u] with a [u]new[/u] generation of people God orders a new war to retake the Promised Land, which was a preemptive attack, and first strike of that new war.

Preemptive wars are not necessarily unjust simply because they are Preemptive. Even if that was so a injustice in particular acts of war would not necessarily make the cause itself unjust.