"Every country in the world has been occupied and snatched from its indigenous people.
what Isreal is doing can be viewed as a necessary evil"
Depending on the argument you will always find people who will defend conquering if they subscribe to heriarchichal ideologies. The notion that "God" or "Allah" or who the Hell ever, dictates where people can and cannot live, and what they can and cannot have. Some even propose biological essentialist viewpoints to this: "we must procure this area and its resources because the savages who currently occupy it arent utilizing it properly." And that procurement is often violent as opposed to mutually beneficial, and the "savages" even if they convert and submit to the social hierarchy, become 2nd or 3rd-class citizens with limited rights, most often NO input towards Governance.
The simple reply is:
"It was wrong then and it is wrong now."
Depending on who you're talking to you will likely be met with defensiveness or outright Nationalism. You'll be hit with the old "but it got us what we have now, look at all this splendor, how can you say it eas wrong!?"
"Easy. It was wrong."
Correcting it isnt quite as complicated as wealth-hoarders and their worshippers would make it seem, either. What makes it complicated is people sewing the seeds of otherism (racism, xenophobia, homophibia) so you always have someone to hate while they pick your pockets.
Thinking about this reminds me of a good tune from the 80's featuring this line:
"The time has come, to say fair's fair
To pay the rent, to pay our share
The time has come, a fact's a fact
It belongs to them, let's give it back"
Back-story of the song:
"After Midnight Oil toured through the
Outback in 1986, playing to remote Aboriginal communities and seeing first hand the seriousness of the issues in health and living standards,
Peter Garrett,
Jim Moginie and
Rob Hirst wrote "Beds Are Burning" to criticize how said populations were often
forcibly removed from their lands, highlighted by the pre-chorus lines "it belongs to them, let's give it back". Considering such a local affair inspired a worldwide hit, Garrett commented "Who would have thought an Aboriginal land rights song would travel that far?"