re: #164 martinsmithy

The problem is that the 1967 borders or lines, or whatever you call them, could be defended by Israel if hostilities were to arise with extreme difficulty. Israel’s future security, perhaps even existence, would become dependent upon a future Palestinian government - a government that would, at this point, include Hamas members.

That’s a very scary prospect.

I can’t imagine Israel agreeing to this without significant border adjustments, and I don’t know where the “tradeable” territory within pre-1967 Israel is.

I might suggest, as an alternative, that Israel be allowed to “buy” land outside the pre-1967 borders, with compensation payments to individual Palestinians (not the Palestinian government).

I’m not sure how Israel, with one of the best equipped military forces in the world and 200+ tactical and strategic nuclear weapons on hand, is going to be threatened by any Palestinian State regardless of where the borders are drawn.

The only thing that will be a threat to Israel (in an existential sense) will be a similar nuclear power with the ability to deliver those weapons, and borders will not have anything to do with that at all.