Your arguments are based on a simplistic reduction to the absurd.
If Israel did not exist, then Hizbollah would not exist, ergo, fewer dead Israelis.
I exaggerate, but not by much.
The fallacy in your argumentation is that it leads inexorably to the question of whether Israel should be allowed to exist, a question which you answer in the affirmative but with limits, i.e., but only within the pre-1967 borders.
What do you do with the armed terrorist groups who do not think that Israel should exist at all? Dismiss them out of hand? Prohibit Israel from defending itself against them? How do you take into account these groups' views? Surely you don't suggest that they ought to be ignored by any responsible Israeli leader.
What do you do with the fact that Israel negotiated in good faith with Arafat, but was faced with Arafat's volte face and walk-out? Go back to pre-1967 borders, then have it wait with a thumb up its ......nose, waiting patiently for Hizbollah's Katyusha's and Arafat's human bombs?
The hard reality is that Israel, unfortunately, has to have something to trade in exchange for peace unless, of course, you are so naive as to think that a withdrawal to pre-1967 borders will magically result in peace, in which case I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to show you. |
