Reply #15: Just wait for peak oil [View All]

[tocqueville]

The only chance for Israel to survive is to go back to the 1948 borders, which are the only legal borders and pay compensation to the Palestinians. They could then regain moral authorithy within the international community.

It's only the US today which is interested in Israel as a police in the ME. But the day the Saudi fields are dry, the interest will drop rapidly, unless sand becomes a fuel. Sooner or later the "Arabs" will get nuclear weapons, thus creating a new balance of power permitting to use conventional weapons. And then Israel doesn't stand a chance. The "Arabs" see the problem generation wise. It took them 400 years to throw out the crusaders, but they did. In the worse case we'll have a local nuclear holocaust, but the result is the same... for Israel. The "Arabs" will survive.