Israel Readying New Cutting-Edge Arms To Meet Iran Challenge

I take it you've never even taken a rudimentary class on the Middle East.

Israel gave up the Sinai (twice actually '56 & '78). Taba to Egypt in '89. They gave up territory to Jordan ('94). They withdrew from Lebanon (UN certified). They UNILATERALLY withdrew from Gaza, uprooting their own citizens in the process - while getting NOTHING in return.



To recap: Israel gives up territory while, AT BEST, they get a piece of paper with promise.



While Israel certainly doesn't have any love lost for the Palestinians, you're even wrong on your allegations of "no real interest". Israel has a keen interest that Palestinians have something of their own so that they will hopefully start concentrating on their own lives instead of just trying to destroy someone else's. Who do you think helped the Palestinians with all of the hot houses and other expensive investments after Israel's withdrawal from Gaza? Not their Arab brothers!! NOOOOOO. It was mainly from Israelis and Jews worldwide. Check it out!

What was the payback? The infrastructure was looted and destroyed in the first few weeks and then Hamas began using the territory to bomb Israeli civilians. They bombed Sderot for eight years until finally Israel had had enough and was forced to go after Hamas in Gaza.



P.S. When the operation was finished, they withdrew..­...again.
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Israel Readying New Cutting-Edge Arms To Meet Iran Challenge

"no recent history (1000 yrs) of war-like tendencies"????

Your lack of knowledge is boundless.

Does the Iran-Iraq war mean nothing to you?? It lasted only around eight years (1980-1988) so maybe you missed it (or weren't born yet). Although the war was started by Iraq, Iraq declared a cease fire in 1982 when they realized that they weren't getting anywhere. They suggested that they both send soldiers to fight Israel in the Lebanon war that began that year. In 1983 Iran saw an opening because of their overwhelming numerical superiority. They didn't care how many of their own soldiers would be killed. Eventually they thought they would be able to simply overrun Iraq. They stated "The Road to Jerusalem Goes through Karbala,". Don't you just love how even then they included Israel in their hatred!

In all over ONE MILLION soldiers dies on both sides with countless civilians. (FYI by comparison 80k deaths combined in ALL Arab/Israel wars!)

Every ask why so much attention is paid to this conflict and so many UN resolutions are on the books against Israel considering just how small the conflict is in the bigger scheme of the worlds other conflicts?!
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