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"Russ" <mcresq@aol.com>skrev i en meddelelse news:20020413175318.04407.00005423@mb-fi.aol.com...

Israel has two security problems. One, as mentioned, is the risk of a military invasion by their neighbouring nation-states. So far they have defeated them every time, but not by crushing them. Their enemies need be victorious only once. The other, which makes life ugly though it does not directly threaten the existence of the state of Israel, is the terrorist attacks by Palestinian gunmen, car bombers and suicide bombers. If the Palestinians got a state of their own, there would be much fewer Palestinians who were motivated to attack Israel in that way. They would also have less opportunity, because a straight and short border is easier guarded than a long and sinuous one as exists between the PA on the West Bank and Israel now. A *viable* Palestinian state would probably reduce the violence drastically. Though I daresay that the violence would not disappear. There would still be Palestinians wanting to destroy Israel, or at least have further revenge upon the Jews. They would be fewer, and less tolerated by Palestinian authorities and a population that now had much to lose. For that matter there would be Jewish extremists, like the Mosque shooter or the young man who murdered Yitzhak Rabin, who would regard such a solution as a betrayal and a giveaway of Our Land (tm). I suppose such a solution could improve the situation to something resembling the Troubles in Northern Ireland.