Thursday, March 29, 2007

Israel's Requirement for Defensible Borders



This post was originally meant as a comment post for “Resistance is Futile Israel, Comply to Saudi Plan or Else.” I believe it offers clarification to what would happen to Israel if the Arabs got their way forcing Israel to pre-1967 borders. The post was too long to be accepted as a comment.

I am a Christian right kind of guy, thus I have reasons of faith for not the existence of Israel, but the Land’s expansion to Biblical proportions.

There is a geopolitical purpose for not decreasing Israel’s borders.
JRH
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Israel's Requirement for Defensible Borders

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror
Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace

UN Resolution 242: No Restoration of the 1949 Armistice Line

Israel's struggle for "defensible borders" is unique in international diplomacy. It emanates from both the special legal and strategic circumstances that Israel faced in the aftermath of the 1967 Six-Day War, when the Israel Defense Forces captured the West Bank and other territories in a war of self-defense. The previous armistice line of 1949 that separated the Israeli and Jordanian armies was only a military boundary and not a permanent political border, according to the armistice agreement itself. The Jordanian occupation of the West Bank occurred in conjunction with its illegal invasion of the State of Israel in 1948. In fact, Jordanian sovereignty in the West Bank was not recognized by a single Arab state. This provided the background for UN Security Council Resolution 242 of November 1967 which concluded that Israel would need "secure and recognized boundaries" that would necessarily be different from the 1967 lines. The previous status quo was not to be restored. In diplomatic shorthand, President George W. Bush stated on April 14, 2004, that Israel had a right to "defensible borders," in order to ...

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

1967 was an expansionist war of aggression, not defence. Of course, in your map you ignore that the ratio of Palestinian civilians to Israelis is like 20 to 1, and that the Palestinians are the ones with the most security concerns. You are not, nor have ever been a christian.

SlantRight 2.0 said...

Mr. Anonymous you are victim of your own propaganda. The 1967 War was a combined attack of Jordan, Syria and Egypt. The aggression was on the part of the Mohammedans. They gambled yet again on DESTROYING Israel and Won the City of David back. Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, not Mohammedan blood thirsty Islamofascists deceived into a faith created by a man called Mohammed at best or a man that listened to demonic voices at worst.