>>Do you know the geography of the area? IIRC, with the pre-1967 borders, there was one place were Israel was only 9 miles wide. How were they possibly supposed to defend that?
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>Probably in a similar way to how they defended it until 1967.
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By having and winning a war at least once a decade?
>Is Israel defending its seizure of the West Bank based on the grounds of self-defense, or on the basis of the radical right in Israel believing it's their God-given right?
Israel conquered a lot of land in 1967. They've already returned a lot of it, as part of peace treaties with the countries involved. IIRC, the Sinai peninsula was as big or bigger than the rest of Israel.
Tamar
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