You charge Israel with aggressively invading Egypt in 1967. Didn't the Egyptians close the Strait of Tiran to Israeli shipping, which is an act of war? Didn't they mass troops in Sinai? Concerning Lebanon in 2006, wasn't there an armed attack across the border by Hezbollah and the killing and abduction of Israeli soldiers. Your selective history is not worthy of a scholar.
Last time I looked, there were not "tens of millions" of Jews, only 13 million. 6 million were annihilated in the Holocaust because they had no state of their own.
In 1975 Israel was surrounded by enemies. This is before the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Does it surprise you that a besieged country would reach out to a government from whom it purchased yellowcake?
The Israeli evacuation of Gaza could have been a new beginning. Instead it produced missiles fired daily at Sderot and a Hamas coup. Do you really think Israel will now repeat a pull-out from the West Bank and risk Iranian missiles a few miles from Tel Aviv and the airport? Even if a deal could be worked out with a more centrist Israeli govt, can the Palestinians deliver on their end of any grand bargain?
You charge Israel with aggressively invading Egypt in 1967. Didn't the Egyptians close the Strait of Tiran to Israeli shipping, which is an act of war? Didn't they mass troops in Sinai? Concerning Lebanon in 2006, wasn't there an armed attack across the border by Hezbollah and the killing and abduction of Israeli soldiers. Your selective history is not worthy of a scholar.
Last time I looked, there were not "tens of millions" of Jews, only 13 million. 6 million were annihilated in the Holocaust because they had no state of their own.
In 1975 Israel was surrounded by enemies. This is before the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan. Does it surprise you that a besieged country would reach out to a government from whom it purchased yellowcake?
The Israeli evacuation of Gaza could have been a new beginning. Instead it produced missiles fired daily at Sderot and a Hamas coup. Do you really think Israel will now repeat a pull-out from the West Bank and risk Iranian missiles a few miles from Tel Aviv and the airport? Even if a deal could be worked out with a more centrist Israeli govt, can the Palestinians deliver on their end of any grand bargain?