re: #208 Obdicut

The enemy is not just the Palestinians, though. It is basically the rest of the Middle East.

Even if all of Palestine was conquered and every Palestinian either expelled or a good Israeli citizen, the attacks on Israel would continue. They might be less severe, they might not be— the bordering Arab states might, if Israel had fully annexed Palestine, be more than happy to provide self-haven for those mortars and rockets. Hell, they might finally create a new Palestine, just for that purpose.

Actually that is exactly what they did. Create the Palestinians. Israel could not have annexed Palestine, as there was no such country or land.

The Disputed Territories never belonged to the “Palestinians” and only came into Israeli possession as a result of the 1967 six day war in which Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon all massed forces at Israel’s border in order to “push the Jews into the sea”?

A great majority of that land has been given back, but only to countries who have made peace with Israel.