Israel, Lebanon, and Gaza

[Alex]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

First and foremost, they're going to need a place to move to. What country is willing to give up a chunk of their land and freely hand it over to another nation?

That's kind of how the people who lived there when the British gave it to the Jews felt about it. "If you want them to have a homeland, give them Wales."

I'm guessing that iSm doesn't feel it is a requirement that they move to another place that is their own country. In 1919 when the whole process began there were maybe 50,000 Jews on the Arabian peninsula. Everybody else came from different countries and presumbably they could once again disperse to different countries. Heck, I believe it is still the case that a majoirty of Israelis hold dual citizenship (but I could easily be wrong).

Do you think their old neighbors are going to calm down and live in peace? I sure don't. The Muslims (no, I'm not saying every Muslim in the world feels this way, but enough do to warrant generalization) don't just want Israel out of the Middle East—they want them annihilated off of the face of the Earth! All this move will do is make them have to shoot longer distances to hit Israel.

I see no reason to believe this. Muslims and Jews on the Arabian peninsula cohabitated pretty much peacefully prior to the re-existence of Israel. Also, while we have seen international terrorism resulting from this conflict over the last many decades it has either targeted Israel or Israelis allies and rarely non-Israeli Jews.

Of course, I don't think there'll be another diaspora unless they are driven from the area by force, but if there was a global Economic Redevelopment Council capable of tearing down and realigning neighborhoods along more rational lines, rectifying the error of recreating Israel would probably be near the top of the list.