werepossum
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- Jul 10, 2006
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Israel can never defuse its foes' hatred by appeasement, any more than the Jews could appease the National Socialists' hatred by appeasement. The Jews' very existence drives the hatred now as then, the only difference being that after the Holocaust the Jews realized the futility of appeasement and depending on the benevolence of others for your survival. As far as its "legitimate borders", if a state repeatedly attacks another state and loses land, it has no moral claim on that land, and no moral authority to give that land to someone else. Israel seems to be doing just fine defending itself, and giving up the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula in particular would merely make Israel less easily defended, not more.Don't be a fool and a propagandist, the present mid-east peace settlements have nothing to do with Israeli's breathing or not.
The question is will we have a Palestinian state or not which will do something to defuse Arab hatreds. And as Israel returns to its legitimate borders, its military will be better able to defend Israelis in a smaller rather than a larger area.
Its sadly an Israeli dilemma, its too small to have a buffer area now and does not have any real buffer area as it is. And has zero hope of ever acquiring a buffer area through future expansion. Israel has too few people to even defend what it has.
And Israel when given a chance to defuse the hostilities of its neighbors, instead does everything to not only keep pissing off its immediate neighbors, it stupid enough to defy the entire world while they are at it.
If your very existence is at stake, defying the whole world seems to me to be the logical and moral thing to do. There are many Arab Muslim states; there is only one nation for the Jews, and no matter how much Western leftists want to appease the Muslims with Jewish blood that doesn't make it a smart thing for the Jews. Better by far to die fighting than to be led again to the slaughter.
