I’m a long-time mainstream moderate with rather unoriginal views about the Israel-Palestine conflict. For many years I didn’t even care about it – I’m Jewish, but the conflict seemed hopeless. Then I went to Israel and the West Bank in 2012 and spent about two years there on and off, and came out of it […]
Israel’s victory in the Six Day War was a triumph of soldiering and military technology. Israel still retains vast military superiority over its neighbors, and obviously over the Palestinians. There is a large body of opinion in the Israeli military, and former Israeli military, that Israel’s security no longer depends on holding the West Bank.
In sundry ways, the West Bank isn’t Algeria. Still, Eshkol was mistaken, and Aron’s point holds true for Israel and the occupation. The “loss” of the occupied territories won’t be the end of Israel. Holding on to them might be.