Labour MP Naz Shah apologises for backing 'relocate Israel to North America' plan

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30. You hate what I suspect Israel MAY become, not what I said.

Israel wants the West Bank. I cite a book that made the same point, but never came out and said it. The Position reflects the GEOGRAPHY of Israel and the West Bank and what that means from a military point of view. Without the West Bank, Israel has no place to retreat to and hide against a superior force. With the West Bank it has a place to do just that. Thus the Ancient Philistines disappeared from History for they base was in the Gaza Strip, but that strip is easy to take and hold for it is very flat. The same with the Ancient Phoenicians, once conquered by Alexander the Great, they disappear from History.

The Ancient Jews survived well into Christian Times by falling back on the West Bank in times of Crisis, that included when Persia took Egypt, when Assyria took Egypt, When Egypt marched on the Hittites and then the Assyrians. That included Napoleon's war on Turkey after he took Egypt. None of them wanted to take Jerusalem or the West Bank unless forced to do so. The Babylonians did so, more to protect their flank if and when Egypt would attack them. Rome did so, but left the Jews alone till the Jewish war of 120 AD (and even afterward, Jews remained in the West Bank).

I am just pointing out something you do NOT want to hear, that Israel wants the West Bank to be Jewish and have a good rationale for wanting the West Bank to be Jewish. The problem is that means getting rid of the Palestinians in the West Bank. Given the support Israel needs from the US, forceful removal of the whole population is not presently possible, but if that support is no longer needed AND Israel enters a time period where it no longer cares what the world thinks it is doing, that is the same position Hitler found himself in regards to the Jews in Europe in 1942.