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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
earlier today you said i dodged your big point. from now on all I will post on PB is this repeated question to you, until you answer it.
What harm is there to Israel in making it's Islamic neighbors hate it, when the leader of the most powerful neighbor is on record wanting Israel gone and most of the people in the region couldn't agree more. how does killing some bad mixed in with some innocent make it worse? not asking for "is it right to kill innocents," "simply is Israel worse off," and if so why.
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Israel is better off with the relations it has with Egypt and Jordan than it was decades ago. Outside of Hezbollah, Iran doesn't have an awful lot of influence in the region -- not surprisingly, since it is not an Arab country and a Shi'a one to boot.
This next idea is complicated, so see if you can follow: Because war is bad, avoiding war is good. War costs money and lives and resources, etc. So avoiding war in, e.g., Lebanon will make Israel more prosperous in the long run.
And I do not think Arab attitudes are intractable in the long run.
