If Israel's 1967 borders are "indefensible", as Benjamin Netanyahu claims, why did Israel have so little trouble beating three nations in six days from within those same borders? How is it they lasted for over 18 years before being expanded? Were they so untenable, why couldn't this supposed problem be addressed by negotiated 'land-swaps', as has been suggested by most parties since before the Oslo accords?
If the Israeli PM's claim seems unjustified on its face, why are so many politicians and pundits eager to repeat it ad nauseum? Why do they cheer this false objection?
Is it because Israel is our friend? How? We give it cover on the world stage and in the UN Security Council. We give it hundreds of millions of dollars a year. What does Israel offer us in turn? Lectures and insults?
I'm not anti-Israel. Its people deserve to live in peace and prosperity alongside their neighbours. But this will not be achieved by an intransigent Israeli PM who remains dismissive or derisive of both those he would actually have to negotiate with and those who would assist in the negotiations. Why should we happily put up with his snubbing of our VP and his lecturing our President? What's in it for us?
If the Israeli PM's claim seems unjustified on its face, why are so many politicians and pundits eager to repeat it ad nauseum? Why do they cheer this false objection?
Is it because Israel is our friend? How? We give it cover on the world stage and in the UN Security Council. We give it hundreds of millions of dollars a year. What does Israel offer us in turn? Lectures and insults?
I'm not anti-Israel. Its people deserve to live in peace and prosperity alongside their neighbours. But this will not be achieved by an intransigent Israeli PM who remains dismissive or derisive of both those he would actually have to negotiate with and those who would assist in the negotiations. Why should we happily put up with his snubbing of our VP and his lecturing our President? What's in it for us?
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