>>>Having taken the land they did in 1967, why didn't they then integrate it into Israel? Isn't that what most countries, democratic or not, would do? In which case those living there would become Israeli citizens.
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>>My understanding is that Israel would happily have done so, but the rest of the world didn't approve.
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>OK. And Israel also chose to not apply its existing laws to the lands occupied in that war, with the possible exception of Jerusalem.
>As a model of democracy I have trouble understanding that.
I think it was something of a no-win situation. Annex the land and the world screams at you for appropriating someone else's land. Don't annex it and you're not treating the people fairly.
BTW, it's worth looking at a map of the middle east as a whole to understand how little land we're talking about here. This one isn't bad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MiddleEast.pngTamar
