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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Am I still not allowed to use diplomacy?
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No, by all means. "Hi Iran? It's Israel. We'd like to talk. Let's meet in the cafe by the bar. I know you don't recognize me.... but I'll be the guy with the yarmulke."
Seriously, how do you use diplomacy with people who demand your destruction, without any sense or possibility of compromise?
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Syria supports Hezbollah to have leverage in Lebanon and with Israel. If you want Syria to give that leverage up, you have to buy them off.
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Pfft. The only thing that Syria would even claim it would want in return would be the Golan Heights. I'm sure that would be as effective in stopping attacks as was pulling out of Lebanon and Gaza (both of which Israel was right to do, but for different reasons.)
Would you let Syria into the Golan Heights if you were the Israeli PM?
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Or there's war, if you would prefer having a more radical Islamist theocracy running Syria instead of the current secular authoritarian regime.
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Um, yeah. Fighting Hezbollah is going to cause a mass democratic uprising in Syria.
But given that you note that such a regime is possible in Syria, please refer back to my question re: Golan.
