Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905"...Does it matter what was?..."
Israel has tried 'Land for Peace' deals before.
Those never work out very well.
I think they've learned their lesson.
No point in skedaddling back to the 1967 lines, when there will simply be more demands after a brief interlude.
Bottom line: the Arabs will not be content until they have it all.
Israel requires ownership and control of the entire region - River to Sea - the white area on the map, below...
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...in order to have defensible borders that can be sustained for centuries and generations.
And they are going to get them.
They've heard the land-for-peace bullshit once too often.
Can't blame 'em for laughing at such, nowadays.
That window of opportunity closed quite some time ago.
Unlike their Palestinian counterparts, the Israelis are not fools.
To be honest you're beginning to sound like Daffy Duck if you think the Israelis are going to shoot up the Palestinians out of the Occupied territories.
They don't need to as the rest of islam will do that job for them, and give the land to Israel as a compensation package. Egypt has declared war on hamas, Jordan has declared war on hamas, Saudi has declared war on hamas. So what chance do the Palestinians have left if the peace talks fail. This is the fault of the arab spring and why the coalition of Jordan, Saudi, Egypt and Israel will prevail over extremist islam.
