Originally posted by: narcotic
Originally posted by: Aimster
*Israel has 5-6 million citizens. If you think any of the Arabs of Israel will arm themselves to fight off other Arabs, lol.
*I said Israel cannot occupy a large Arab country. I never knew Israeli forces once occupied all of Egypt/Syria/Saudi Arabia/. Do you know much about your neighbors? The majority of people live in the capital city. The surrounding cities are nothing but villages. Nice job taking villages. Lebanon was not united. You do know they were fighting a bloody civil war for 25 years, right? Why are you bringing up wars that happened a long time ago before you were born? Even if you want to bring them up, Israel never occupied a large Arab country. The populations of those countries has more than doubled since then.
The only "country" Israel is good at controlling all of and that has actually controlled all of is Palestine. Unless you can prove me wrong go ahead and do so.
Egypt has a population of 77 Million and you are telling me a country with a population of 5 million has the force ready to occupy all of Egypt. Egypt has hundreds of thousands of troops yet you are telling me a country like Israel has the ability to occupy all of Egypt. I think not.
Egypt's population vs Lebanon's .. of around 3 million current.
Common Sense. Where is it?
You do know if Israel invaded Egypt you will have 70+ million pissed off people. That is why I brought up Iraq. You do not have 20-30 million pissed off Iraqis. You have a handful of Saudis who are pissed off and enter the country killing U.S forces as well as Iraqi forces. Imagine if Iraqis didn't want Saddam out and had nothing to gain by U.S forces entering Iraq. The situation would be much worse.
Dude, why do you insist? You obviously have no clue, why do you want to make yourself look like a fool?
You think its harder occupying a countries capital just because there are more CIVILIANS there?! Even you, should be able to understand how dumb that assumption is. CIVILIANS have no means of stopping armed forced who have no interest of sparing their lives.
Let me illustrate with a simple example, suppose you had a bad day in school, now you decide you're gonna go and kill everyone, you get yourself a M-16, you take a couple of clips, and you go to school where there are about 5000 students, you kill 15 of them, and then police comes and kills you. Now, given the fact that you're not a professional infantry soldier, and still managed to kill 15 people, think what if you're a pro, if your ammo is unlimited you kill at least 200-300 people before police comes. Now, suppose you had a tank at your disposal? you alone can wipe out everyone there, how about if you also have artillery and air strikes?
You see what I mean? Civilians don't stop armies.
I hope that explained you, why even a country small as Israel, once defeating the opposing army, can do whatever it wants with the 100,000,000,000,000+ CITIZENS of that country, btw at that point most countries will surrender, thus sparing the lives of its civilians.
You also keep mentioning UAE and Saudi as being "powerful" countries, which has nothing to do with reality, both of these countries do not pose any threat to any country in the region, let alone Israel.
M.E power balance as of today:
Israel >> Egypt > Iran > Syria >> Jordan > Saudi > Lebanon > UAE
Though Iran will probably overpower Egypt soon.