What Should Israel Do? (Poll, with actual poll attached)

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Here are the options:

A: Israel should write off the Palestinian Authority as a bad experiment, re-establish control of the Gaza and West Bank, formally annex these lands, and rigorously enforce a security zone around this new territory.

B: Israel should write off the Palestinian Authority as a bad experiment, re-establish control over the Gaza and West Bank, and continue to enforce security.

C: Israel should fence off as much of the Palestinian territory as possible, rigorously controlling this border.

D: The current situation is the best to be hoped for. Israel should continue to hit terrorist targets in response to attacks on its citizens, but try to allow the Palestinian Authority the chance to stabilize and turn towards a path of peaceful coexistence.

E: Israel should completely withdraw from all lands acquired during the 1967 conflict and allow these territories to revert to their original owners or to the Palestinian Authority.

F: Israel should withdraw to its original 1948 borders, returning all other territory to the original Palestinian owners or other nation from which it was taken.

G: Israel should return to the 1947 borders suggested by the UN, returning all other territory to the original Palestinian owners or other nation from which it was taken.

H: Israel should be declared a non-state by the UN and should cease to be.

I: Other (explain)

J: Gah (I always answer every poll this way, just to be a contrarian).

[Csargo]

for the love of God make it stop

[Pannonian]

Does option A include full Israeli rights for the inhabitants of the new annexed areas? I'd support a formal annexation, if this were the case, but younger Israelis seem to favour an annexation of the land without the incorporation of the Palestinians, either expelling the Palestinians or leaving them in legal limbo as 3rd class non-citizens living on Israeli land.

[Navaros]

I was watching a local news magazine program the other day and they were interviewing Palestinian experts.

What the Palestinian experts said they wanted was for the Palestinian refugees to be allowed to return to the homes that they own and have the legal papers to prove they own yet they were kicked out of in 1948. And for Israel to be given a new name and allow all Palestinians to live on the land with the Jews under the new name.

Seems pretty reasonable.

Of course, Israel would never actually do any of that, and that option is not on the Poll. So I voted for option H.

[Fragony]

Back the PLO, the lesser of many evils. 1967 borders should be fine, arabs wanted to fight and lost. Stop the colonists, stop frustrating palestinian economy, build wall, and in general stop being such bully's. If you got to hit hard, and they should when it's necesary imvho, you got to be the better person.

[Zaknafien]

for the love of (Insert fake deity here), who could possibly support something as brutal as option A?

[Fragony]

for the love of (Insert fake deity here), who could possibly support something as brutal as option A?

Click on the numbers and you'll see who

[Marshal Murat]

Is there a single site with the maps?

[sapi]

for the love of (Insert fake deity here), who could possibly support something as brutal as option A?

*Points to self

Better to have action than more doomed negotiation.

As things stand an accord is not going to be reached anywhere in the near (or even far) future.

Option A, imo, is the right option to choose as long as it is undertaken with the right intentions.

Once peace has been established, negotiation can begin.

[Zaknafien]

military aggression only causes more desire for freedome hence more 'terrorists' recruited. Such conflicts in Israel, Iraq, and Afghanistan are impossible to win with traditional military techniques. For further reading, look at "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" by Robert Pape.