The historical events can only be put aside if those OUTSIDE Israel no longer pose a CURRENT threat to each and every Israeli citizen, which is unlikely to happen; especially as the region is becoming more volatile, not less, and currently historically ‘hostile’ States to Israel e.g. Syria, are distracted by their own civil wars and/or Shia vs Sunni conflicts, where for the moment Muslim is far happier killing Muslim, than Jews.
But that can change on a few political decisions, just take Egypt, from mortal Israeli enemy, then a peace agreement that lasted for years, then democratically run by the anti Israeli Muslim Brotherhood, then not – but someone has to ensure Israeli citizens don’t get too complacent in the meantime, and currently Hamas has the well funded regional mandate to keep the threat on the Israelis going.
- Hamas poses nearly as much of a current threat to Israel if it is PREPARING to kill Israelis at a moments notice, than firing missiles.
- What are all these (30 so far?) tunnels from Gaza to Israel about, Palestinian access to the nearest local Lidl and Aldi stores????
- Have you seen the engineering quality of these lined tunnels, Hamas should be here building Crossrail, they looked that good.
Hamas and similar, with their underground arms factories and other military ordinance is waging a well funding and orchestrated war against Israel, waiting for THEIR day to attack and kill as many Israeli civilians as they can and the only thing stopping them is Israeli resolve to stop them, in real time or pre emptive – as in ‘The 6-Day War’, where if memory serves, the Palestinians (PLO) were previously attacking Israel.
If the Gaza chose to spend the several hundred $$million ANNUAL donations on industry ABOVE ground e.g. white goods, cancelled their missile order with North Korea and generally WOUND DOWN their guerrilla war effort - with little economic and social downside domestically I can think of and all to gain - there would be HUGE pressure on the Israeli’s to respond accordingly i.e. reducing the buffer zone to Gaza, taking off the blockade etc etc etc.
But Hamas, Fatah and other factions in an area where the majority of the people ideologically would like the land of Israel back in their lands BY WHATEVER MEANS, I reiterate, I seriously doubt it is achievable.
Israelis at threat every day of their lives are aware of all this, which could explain today a poll I heard on the BBC, that says 90% of them want their government to do whatever necessary to protect them, which will include taking out military installations firing upon Israelis, cowardly using a Palestinian ‘human shield’.