If it were possible for Israel to ethnically cleanse the West Bank and Gaza and get away with it, (i.e. survive the international repercussions), they'd have already done it
As sound as most of your conclusions, which is to say, A+ for assurance, F for knowledge of history. The Israelis could have ethnically cleansed all the territory they took in 1948 (in fact did some for strategic areas), but the Israelis did not. After all, the Jordanians on their side did ethnically cleanse their areas. Two years after the Holocaust, nobody would have said boo if Israel had cleared the land under cover of war. This goes to show that something other than external disapproval was in operation.
In 1967, 350,000 Arabs fled rather than live under Israeli rule; many more might have gone if Moshe Dayan had not been a dove who tried to reassure the Arabs and not drive them off. Again, because Israel's war was clearly defensive and only the USSR & the Arabs were rooting against it, nobody in Europe and America would have said boo if double or triple the number of Arabs had fled. I don't remember Arab refugees from the West Bank ever being mentioned after 1967.
Israel is so weak that it's never sent more than a few dozen soldiers anywhere outside of its immediate neighborhood
Um, do you consider the West bank of the Suez Canal in Israel's immediate neighborhood? Say, why don't you try learning something about Israel's wars before pontificating about them? Israel is a regional military power, but as a military power is sufficiently strong that the Arabs have given up the idea of conventional warfare. |
