Why Are Americans So Supportive of Israel?
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« Reply #75 on: December 10, 2012, 02:24:45 PM »

Because one holocaust is enough. The Jews are in Israel to stay - with US force of arms if necessary. The Arabs had better get used to it.

Israel will need to abandon most of its settlements in the West Bank however.
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« Reply #76 on: December 10, 2012, 02:40:44 PM »

The suffering of others turn out to be surprisngly light to bear.
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« Reply #77 on: December 11, 2012, 03:49:50 AM »

Because one holocaust is enough. The Jews are in Israel to stay - with US force of arms if necessary. The Arabs had better get used to it.

Israel will need to abandon most of its settlements in the West Bank however.

pretty much my beliefs.

in my opinion, being zionist isn't incompatible with being left wing, as long as you're prepared to criticize israel when it goes too far - this is one of those cases. however, its been illustrated that with only minor changes to the green line, 65-75% of the jewish settler population could be annexed into israel.
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« Reply #78 on: December 11, 2012, 11:21:34 AM »

Because one holocaust is enough. The Jews are in Israel to stay - with US force of arms if necessary. The Arabs had better get used to it.

Israel will need to abandon most of its settlements in the West Bank however.

I think the Israelis are in big trouble. Demographic and economic trends are against them. The Palestinian population is growing, while wealthy and educated Jews are leaving Israel. Israel has a net Jewish population loss, with emigration far exceeding immigration. The only Jewish demographic that seems to be increasing are the ultra-Orthodox, who politically tend towards the far-right.

Meanwhile, on the economic and security front, the stable neighboring regimes with whom Israel had reached a generally peaceful modus vivendi are increasingly volatile. (Egypt, Syria, Jordan.) And at the same time, the United States, which provides a great deal of support to Israel's military and economy, is finding itself in an increasingly precarious position.

While I don't forsee any immediate changes, in a few decades Israel is going to find itself in much the same position as the apartheid government of South Africa did.
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