Re: Israel vs Eretz Israel

"Micha Berger" <micha@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> That last point is, to my mind, the most moral choice. In any other war,
> the losers lost the territory and ARE expelled. Had Ben-Gurion done the
> same in '48, or Dayan and Meir (aleihem hashalom) in '67, we would not
> be facing this dilemma.

That would have created a much larger refugee situation than the one that
already exists.

You might be right that Israel would not be facing her current dilemma, had
she done things differently.

But that might because, had she done so, she would not have survived even
this long, having committed political suicide while still in infancy.

Rafael


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