Or, put another way. Go back 60 years and say to the founders of the new Israel:
"You can have your promised land back but it will mean at least 75 years of near continuous bloodshed. Outright war every decade or so and near continuous guerilla warfare. Thousands of Israelites will be killed. Tens of thousands of Arabs. And at the end of that you'll be distrusted by much of the rest of the world and viewed as the aggressor and not the defender."
What kind of reasonable people would say "yeah, let's go for it"?
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