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ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Ben Gurion lost me decades ago when he announced his own version of Jewish Libenstraum -- that Israel HAD to expand to be safe.
dannys925 · 26-30, M
@ChipmunkErnie: I'm not a Jew or a military officer, but looking at the situation through Ben Gurion's one general's eye, you are surrounded by four hostile nations planning to invade you simultaneously. The borders you are charged to defend make you a gerrymander no more than 20 miles wide at points. I can see the need to shorten things up to a more defensible shape not as libenstraum, but more as we are not again going to submit ourselves readily to likely annihilation by an avowed threat to "push you all into the sea".