Does Israel need to keep expanding its borders for survival?
I know many of you will argue that they are occupiers of Palestinian land, but Israel isn't going anywhere anytime soon. The question is based on the fact that Israel will never go back to the 1967 borders as it wouldn't be safe for Israel at this point. This question focuses on the fact that Israel is a country the size of Rhode Island, and is surrounded by very dangerous enemies who want it to disappear. I don't see any alternative to Israel's survival other than to keep expanding it's borders until the Israelis can maintain a safe buffer zone that will spare them more time to set up proper missile defenses. Hamas has also vowed to destroy Israel and will not recognize it as a sovereign state. If there were to be peace talks Gaza couldn't be trusted to reach any type of agreement, as they elected Hamas to control the area. The West Bank is represented by the Palestinian Authority, but how can the two territories come to an agreement when they aren't unified? If there were to be a two state solution Israel would lose any legal authority to conduct searches and seizures of illegal weapons that threaten their survival. The subject doesn't seem to be as complicated to me as it does for many others. I feel the only way Israel can be a self-sustaining independent country is if Israel takes the areas of the West Bank and Gaza as its own. I even feel it would be beneficial for Israel to gain some more territory past the Golan Heights in Syria. Who knows what kind of evil could rise to power assuming the Assad Regime falls in Syria. I know that this solution of mine is not what most people want to hear, but when will the attack on Israel end? Why play games and pretend a false sense of peace is even possible? If anyone has a rational solution other than continue peace talks I would like to hear it. Does anyone agree with me? Do you feel my proposal is crazy, and if so why? P.S. not Jewish
Can Israel Survive WithOut US Support?
Though it's true...if not for The USA providing weapons to Israel...Israel most likely would not have survived. Today...I believe that Israel can survive on it's own because besides The USA, Israel has a very good Military. Remember...it's not the size of the population that will either make or break Israel. It all comes down to weapons and intelligence and Israel has both...plus after what The Jews went through in WWII, they also have a strong will to survive as well. This might not be a popular opinion to most people because Israel is accused of being very harsh on The Palestinians but for those who really know the History, The Jews were on that land first and they were kicked out many times by The Romans, The Arabs, The Persians and Turks. Israel also agreed to live side by side with The Palestinians when Israel was created in 1948 and it was The Palestinians who began all of the previous Wars from 1948 until 1967 with the help of their Arab neighbors. I do believe that Palestinians should have their own State side by side with Israel but they need to stop all of the terror and stop saying that Israel was built on Palestinian land because that is not true. Palestine was built on Jewish land. By the way, I am not Jewish...I am just telling it like it is written in History. You have nothing to worry about...Israel is not going to cease to exist!
First, the United States never militarily fought to help Israel at any time. The first military planes used by Israel in 1948 were Czech built German planes, and the sale was sanctioned by Stalin. In the 1950s and 1960 the French were the main suppliers of planes to Israel, which were used in the Six Day War. During the Yom Kippur War the US resupplied Israel after the Soviets Union resupplied Egypt and Syria. That was probably the only time that the US provided major support during a “war” (of course you have to adjust for the fact that the 1948 war only ended in a cease fire, not an actual peace treaty.) Would Israel have won without the American resupply? I don’t think anyone outside the Israeli Government knows exactly how desperate the situation actually was. But all Israel requested was supplies to fight, not troops, and it was in America’s interest to counter the Soviet influence among the Arabs. Did the US resupply Israel due to that or because Nixon really cared about the Jews? Both sides could be argued. Israel is now much less dependent on the US than it was 40 years ago. It manufactures its own weapon systems, many under joint agreements with US companies. The US did not do anything significantly different in supporting Israel than it did in Europe, such as creating and supporting NATO , and the Far East, after WWII. So considering what it was up against, Israel’s survival was less reliant on the US than many believe, and the USA’s interest in the survival of Israel is greater than many believe..
Why do we support Israel?
To be complete, this would be a really long and complicated answer, but I'll try to make it short: It's not just the United States, but most of Europe as well, that have historically supported Israel. The reason?: The United Nations was behind giving Israel back a chunk of it's homeland, following WWII. It was fairly obvious that Europe (especially Germany) had not exactly been hospitable to the Jews, so this was a terrific way to give back a nations stolen homeland, and rid Europe of having to deal with what they saw as "those pesky Jews". So now, people like you continue to engage in anti-semitism, only it's excusable now, under the guise of "they're mean to the Palestinians". Well, who started this latest incident? Every act of aggression on the part of the Palestinians, is always considered "self defense", even when it's completely unprovoked, like this recent kidnapping and murder of two Israeli soldiers. I'm tired of always hearing people ignore ALL acts of agression from the Palestinians, then only react in anger when Israel does something about it. All the Palestinians would have to do to stop the violence , is to hand back this one soldier, but they refuse, and people like you blame Israel. Any other nation would do the same thing. How would your government react if some particular group of people kept blowing up teenagers, old men & women and babies in restaurants and cafe's all the time? Be nicer to them? I think not. The Palestinians have launched over 700 rocket attacks from Gaza since Israel gave it back to them last year, proving that the Israelies were right; "if we give back Gaza, the Palestinians will use it to continue to attack us" As far as your logic that if it bothers other nations, we shouldn't be involved, then I guess we should have stayed out of WWI and WWII, not to mention every other time we've had to go bail out other countries from bad guys.
Does anyone think israel would be able to survive without the support from the united states against the musli
Israel's GDP for the 12 months 2008 became $202 billion US. Israel won in 2009 $2.fifty 5 from the U. S.. Israel is permitted under the contract to spend around 26% on Israeli synthetic kit, an is obligated by regulation to spend in simple terms approximately seventy 5% of the money on US protection kit. that is a million.9% going back to the U. S.. the assumption is to assist force the financial gadget of the U. S.. In return Israel additionally ingredients the U. S. with weapons and militia understanding and progression. Israel's problem isn't with investment, its with diplomacy. there's a extensive rigidity on Israel by maximum arab international places, who're additionally backed by the two Iran and Russia. I do, although, have faith that without the U. S. Israel may be a significant power interior the area, simply by fact the only reason they did no longer destroy the Egyptian military and Damascus in 'seventy 3, and the only reason they did no longer proceed all the thank you to Cairo in 'sixty seven, and the only reason they did no longer thoroughly destroy the Muslim oppression in 'eighty two in Lebanon Is simply by fact the U. S. stopped them.
Well this question assumes US support is the only thing preventing Israel’s enemies from destroying it.That is simply not true, Israel has far lesser enemies willing to go to war to destroy them than half a century ago.Egypt and Jordan is at peace with them while Syria is torn apart by ISIS.Iran can only fund proxies to attack them.While the rest only pay lip service and antisemitic jokes online.Israel’s enemies do not have the capability to destroy them, with or without US support.Assuming USA withdraw support today, it would still require an extreme geopolitical shift against Israel to have multiple countries having the will and capacity to destroy them. Given the history of middle east politics, it ranges from highly unlikely to will never happen.And even if highly unlikely happens, their enemies have to be crazy enough to accept being nuked in order to destroy Israel, which I am sure Israel would do if their destruction is imminent, or failing that, take bitter revenge with their second strike option. I seriously doubt their hatred overcomes their fear of nukes.People just have to accept that Israel is here to stay.
The US is providing financial aid for most of world’s countries, the one the US provide to Israel is A.)not a direct financial aid. B.) counts to less than 1% of Israel’s GDP. C.)Israel asked several times to gradually stop it, the US didn’t agree and put pressure on Israel to keep receiving it. Now I explain these arguments:A.) The financial aid is not in cash, instead it’s voucher of ~ 3 billion$ every year with which Israel is allowed to do shopping for its army only and only in the US.B.) Israel’s economy is growing and expected to be ~370 billion dollars this year, that is, the American aid is equal to 0.8% of Israel’s GDP (without aid).C.) Providing aid is part of US foreign policy, it allows it to gain deeper influence where needed. In the case of Israel aside for political influence, it prevented fierce competition with Israeli weapon manufacturers. For instance, in the past the US used it leverage to make Israel abandon the Lavi jet fighter project as it was worried that it may compete with its F-16s on the global markets. Same done with many other weapon systems.Israel could give up on this aid already 20 years ago, certainly it can now. Plus, Israel didn’t get aid from the US in its first three decades yet it did very well.
US aid to Israel is less than 1.5% of Israel's GDP. Israel has a diversified and creative economy that doesn't need Western aid.Israel has nuclear weapons, and can see to its own defences.I've assumed you mean "aid from western governments." If you include aid from the Diaspora, then this answer might change.If Israel adopts a Bantustan solution for the Palestinian people, boycotts and moral pressure would increase. This might hit Israel's economy, and cause its smartest young people to leave. It wouldn't threaten the viability of the state.Israel's raison d'etre is that centuries of betrayal show that the Jewish people require a Jewish state. If other countries suddenly cut off their support, that would strengthen that argument, not weaken it.
With any nation there are prerequisites to survival.First, do they have access to water for their population. Israel is a world leader in converting sea water to drinking water, today Israel produces over 50% of all their water from desalination plants, in fact they have enough left that they sell fresh water to their neighbors. To further add to this they have more of these plants coming on line.Second, the nation needs to have access to arable land to feed their population. Today Israel produces 76% of all fresh produce in Israel, on top of that with a sizable beef, lamb and goat agricultural founding, with addition to this the ability to draw from the sea most of their fish they have need of, Israel could easily be self sufficient in this if needed.Third, nation needs resources, if they don’t have resources can they trade in other resources to receive what they need? This may be a little harder, but due to the fact that Israel has one of the best hi tech sectors in the world, not to forget they also have one of the best defense manufacturing ability, there will always be nations willing to trade resources for goods.Fourth, a nation needs a manufacturing base. This too as I mentioned prior Israel has very well situated. They do not build cars, but do build military vehicles, this would not be hard to switch over to domestic use. The high sector world is the same, they have not gotten into it, even though they clearly have the ability is due to a lack of need. You could point to their other manufacturing to show this is very well established, they would be able to not only be self sufficient if needed but could continue on with a thriving export business.Fifth there is a need to either be energy independent or at least have the need to manufacture your own energy. With nuclear power, Israel currently expanding their solar, wind and wave production of power, not to mention they have one of the largest natural gas fields in the world, if they were cut off it would not be a issue converting this to liquid gas they could use in their vehicles.There are other elements, such as a strong enough military to defend themselves, with this Israel would have no issue. But since they are not going to get cut off, as Europe has tried to pull away, China and India have tried to move their trade to them, Israel will most likely not face such a issue.