Unlike you I just spent some time reading about the internal Israeli questioning of Bozo Netanyuyu, A. Lieberman, and the crazed settler party folks.
http://www.haaretz.com/
Of course it not just the risk that Israel can fall to internal dissent, but Israel is at big risk at falling to external events. If the international community and larger nations decide Israeli policies must change, Israel is too small and itszy bitsie to long resist. Israel may have 200 + nukes, but cannot possibly withstand any sort of international economic embargo. And because, Israel, by its own arrogant actions have become a magnet for international terrorism, Israel can also fall that way. Up until now and for the short term future, terrorism directed at the Israel State has been little more than an minor Israeli nuisance and hence something can safely ignore. But as Stateless terrorists acquire longer range rockets with better guidance system and also start using chemical, biological, or radiological weapons against Israel, international terrorism will become something that Israelis can't easily ignored.
But I think you fail to understand anything about the nature of the conflict. This is not some Israeli v the entire world sporting contest with defined rules and a binary end, where we can somehow say, its team Israel 83, and the world only 65. And that will be the end of the debate. Which even then would be superficial in two areas. (1) In sports rivalries, the loser always says, wait until next year and the rematch. (2) Nor will the larger world buy the Israeli contention, that if Israel lets its guard down for a single second, the surrounding Arab Nations will push every Israeli Jew into the sea.
The real question, since time extends infinitely forward into the future, is in which position will allow Israel its best hope of being a established and accepted part of the mid-east.
Sadly, IMHO, something the majority Israeli government is ignoring. Because if Israel wants to pig it all, it may end up with nothing. And continued Israeli settlement in the West Bank and East Jerusalem may have already made a possible Palestinian State too small to be self sustaining. Making that other alternative the only end option, namely forcing Israel to assimilate all 3 million Palestinians into Israel with full voting rights. Not only what happened to the former Apartheid State of S. Africa, but the more and more probable final outcome for the Present Israeli State. And of course, then Israel would continue to exist, but not as a State where only Jews have full human rights. As Israel would then become a secular State. Which was the basic Jewish pledge to the UN in 1948.
Because all the State of Israel has done in its 63 existence has been to solve the Jewish refugee crisis post WW2, with a longer lasting Palestinian refugee crisis. But truth be told, those 3 million Palestinians were displaced by Israel and lived inside the the borders of the 1948 Israeli State. As Israel now takes the same position regarding Palestianains that Nazi Germany took against the Jews. Namely that Palestinians are a sub-human race and hence should have no human rights. As Israelis as the superior master race, needs a larger fatherland.
That crap did not work long term for American Slave holders, it did not work for Nazi Germany and other fascist States in Europe or Japan, and it will not work much longer for Israelis either. IN SHORT THAT CRAP NEVER WORKS ESPECIALLY IN A POST UN WORLD.
The point is and remains it can be settled peacefully the South African way, or it may take a bloodbath where no one really wins. But the Present Israel position is untenable much longer.
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