aris2chat
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Likud has led Israel into a dead end. The Arab opposition, supported by the overwhelming majority of UN member states is too strong to allow Israel to annex Judea and Samaria, the one-state solution that the religious right has pushed for with increasing candor for many years.
At the same time, Jews are about to become a minority in Israel if the Occupied Territories are taken into account. This is going to lead to a crisis which the USA will not be able to prevent.
There is no military solution to the conflict, despite the overwhelming military power of the IDF, for which America is paying four million dollars a day. The Arab world is too underdeveloped politically and fractured socially to work out a solution at this time.
Another generation of the status quo may well result in the regional hegemony of a nuclear-armed Iran. Israel cannot survive a nuclear war. It is too small and its population will abandon Tel Aviv for Crown Heights. Previous Crusader states have lasted a couple of centuries. Israel will not have that luxury.
Most neutral observers agree, it is this group that haven't a clue.
Agree that what?? Israel will be overwhelmed by Arabs??
If they do go, it will likely be with a bang.
If Iran attacks Israel, it will effect the palestinians as well. Everything to the east will suffer from the fall out. Iran just want a seat at the table and thinks this is a way to leverage a foot in the doorway.