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Originally posted by taxwonk
Here, let me test your allegiance to Hank. Find Israel's desire for peace in their statement that they are going to "bomb Lebanon back to 1982."
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I find no desire for peace in that. I find a desire to force Hezbollah to stop kidnapping soldiers and launching rockets into Israel, and I find a desire to force Lebanon to act like a sovereign country and assert its right to have a monopoly on military force within its borders.
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Israel gave up Gaza because they were forced to by political exigencies, not because they felt it would lead to peace.
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I believe that both were part of it. If the only concern were maintaining a Jewish majority, Israel could have taken other options -- like denying votes to Palestinians, or mass deportations. I am not suggesting that Israel would or should have done this.... but what would, say, Iran have done?
