Anyone who even dreamed of co-existence or peace was driven out, or murdered if ever they allowed a sign of it to surface.
That leaves only one option – the one that our government in 1967 should have taken and which would have saved us all a passel of trouble had it been done in the first place.
Israel is going to be forced, whether it wants to or not, to annex Judea and Samaria. The sooner we do that, the better. The smartest thing to do would be to annex all of it, completely.
Yes it will be condemned roundly by the international community – but so what? Everything else we do is condemned also. Our very capital is unrecognized to this day, and it has been our capital for millenia – since before most of the “international community” existed.
If there is a need to create an autonomous region for a Palestinian canton under the State of Israel, then fine – as long as ISRAEL has final control over the Ministries of Education, Communications, Finance and Security. Allowing terrorists to control those entities means another ten generations of hatred-fed Arabs — and another ten generations of enemies within our midst. Enough.
Then we should retake Gaza – or ensure that Egypt take control of that region. Few Israelis really want it, honestly – but there’s not much choice. It’s a bigger liability if we don’t retake it. Independent, it becomes instant Iranistan. We cannot afford a new State of Iran on our southern border. We already have enough trouble there as it is. But frankly, the Egyptians don’t want it either.
It is time to retake control of our destiny here. It is time to build a path to peace, even though it may require a layer of gravel before the road becomes smooth. Enough of placating every Tom, Dick and Harry whose army is out there doing everything the IDF is doing, only 50 times more brutally, and 50 times more often. Our survival is now at stake.
“Therefore choose life. . . “