@Finn dAbuzz,
Finn dAbuzz wrote:Twice now they have been offered virtually everything they have asked for and twice they have walked away from the table.
Max likes to deny Israel's past peace offers. Not as horrible as Holocaust denial, but he did his part to undermine the peace process.
Anyway, it is possible that Netanyahu made that offer a third time during the 2012 Kerry talks. Although it is also possible that Netanyahu only made the offer because he was confident that the Palestinians would refuse to accept it.
Also, Arial Sharon's unilateral separation plan would have given the Palestinians enough land to form a state on, even if it would not have been quite as much land as they'd get from negotiations.
Finn dAbuzz wrote:Just imagine what the fate of Israel and the region would be if the US extended the perfidy of Obama and Kerry and completely abandoned Israel. The wolves would be on the Jewish State in a matter of months. Of course Israel would ferociously fight back as any nation threatened with extinction would, but eventually it would likely fail.
I don't know. 1967 and 1973 show that Israel has a good chance of holding their own.
Finn dAbuzz wrote:However, Jews will never again go meekly to the gas chambers, and before Israel falls completely, the region's deserts will be turned to plains of glass, and the cities of Cairo, Damascus, Tehran, Medina and Mecca will be reduced to smoldering rubble. It will be a humanitarian and ecological disaster like none we have ever seen before. This is what is ultimately at stake, because Israel cannot count on any of it's Western allies except the US to stand in harm's way to save it, and the world cannot count on Arab and Iranian restraint or the willingness of Israelis to go down without doing everything and anything in their power to strike back at its enemies.
Well I wouldn't mourn the nuclear extermination of Islam, but Israel probably has an option short of a strategic nuclear strike.
The Israeli government was reportedly unhappy that a large strategic strike was their only nuclear option in 1973, and the US at the time had atomic shells for 8-inch artillery. In 1979 there was a 1kt nuclear explosion over the Indian Ocean. It has been proven that every state other than Israel was not involved, so it was either Israel or a non-state actor. Since that time, Israel has maintained a battery of 8-inch artillery in very high readiness despite 8-inch artillery being obsolete for conventional use.
I think it's likely that Israel "acquired" the designs for those atomic shells and now has a number of their own to fire at any invading army that they cannot handle conventionally.
