"If Israel would keep it's activities confined to the area within the 1967 borders (which include quite a bit of land not given to it by the UN, but that was taken by force by Israel), you and I would not be having this discussion."

WHY 1967? Aren't the borders as defined for the rest of the region good enough? Can we alter the borders of, say , Iraq, to something other than the 1923 TREATY boundries?


I have never understood why the 1967 borders were never good enough for the Palestinians and Arab nations until AFTER they had lost additional territory by attacking Israel, and losing. THEN they became some holy thing.


" I support its right to defend those borders"

So I can presume YOU support the present actions Of Israel in Gaza, since they are in support of defending THOSE borders, which the Palestinians had attacked across, with both the tunnel and rockets.