I believe the West Bank technically belongs to Jordan rather than Syria. It's the Golan Heights that were Syrian turf.
I don't think Israel would colonize southern Lebanon. That wouldn't solve anything, it would just push the Israeli border farther north, still without any kind of buffer zone from enemy emplacements. I think it would be a better idea to simply say "If you live in southern Lebanon, you are living within our buffer zone, and may be subject to random violence."
See, Lebanon is allowing unprovoked attacks from it's territory by Hezbollah into Israel, so it is incumbent on Lebanon to supply the landscape for a buffer zone, not Israel. It would be different if Israel were the one allowing it's territory to be used for unprovoked terrorist attacks against Lebanon, but that's not he case.
The West Bank is a sticky problem. I personally think it should belong to Israel as spoils of war from the Six Day War, but my personal ideas plus a couple of dollars will get a cup of coffee at McDonald's.
Whatever it is, and whomever it belongs to, it should not be allowed as a staging area for Palestinian terrorists to attack Israel from. Israel should have figured out by now via the West Bank experience that buffer zones don't work if you allow the enemy to occupy them, and they don't work if you colonize them and thus put your borders that much closer to the enemy - it ceases to be a buffer zone when you do either of those things.
Gaza should be sanitized, and then annexed to Israel. Otherwise, it's just a mostly useless strip of land that is only good as a staging area and forward operating base for enemy combatants.
Remaining Palestinians should be housed in the nations that are "supporting" them, and integrated into those nations. After all, that's where they originally came from, rather than Israel. History books won't tell you that little tidbit of information.
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I don't think Israel would colonize southern Lebanon. That wouldn't solve anything, it would just push the Israeli border farther north, still without any kind of buffer zone from enemy emplacements. I think it would be a better idea to simply say "If you live in southern Lebanon, you are living within our buffer zone, and may be subject to random violence."
See, Lebanon is allowing unprovoked attacks from it's territory by Hezbollah into Israel, so it is incumbent on Lebanon to supply the landscape for a buffer zone, not Israel. It would be different if Israel were the one allowing it's territory to be used for unprovoked terrorist attacks against Lebanon, but that's not he case.
The West Bank is a sticky problem. I personally think it should belong to Israel as spoils of war from the Six Day War, but my personal ideas plus a couple of dollars will get a cup of coffee at McDonald's.
Whatever it is, and whomever it belongs to, it should not be allowed as a staging area for Palestinian terrorists to attack Israel from. Israel should have figured out by now via the West Bank experience that buffer zones don't work if you allow the enemy to occupy them, and they don't work if you colonize them and thus put your borders that much closer to the enemy - it ceases to be a buffer zone when you do either of those things.
Gaza should be sanitized, and then annexed to Israel. Otherwise, it's just a mostly useless strip of land that is only good as a staging area and forward operating base for enemy combatants.
Remaining Palestinians should be housed in the nations that are "supporting" them, and integrated into those nations. After all, that's where they originally came from, rather than Israel. History books won't tell you that little tidbit of information.
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