Shalom Chaim,
I am very impressed with your answer to my question last week. I completely agree with you - a combination of proper Jewish and rigorous formal science education planted in the right business and civil rights framework will create in Israel an explosive mix for progress beyond anyone's wildest expectations. All the while when islamist will go back to eating sand.
I just finished reading a book by Chaim Herzog & Gishon - "Battles of the Bible". I am in awe at our "militaristic" forebears! What a plead of warriors we had! Joshua, Gideon, Joab, Rehoboam, Judah of Maccabeus, King Ahab, King Hezekiah, King David and many others. This is when Judaism was alive! No white sock, black fur hat and self-hating Jews - just Kahanists! Throughout history, Jews always fought against a massively superior enemies in numbers and in armament. Jews relied on G-d (religious fervor -according to bolshevik authors), ingenuity, surprise, courage and on the terrain. Time and time again inferior Jewish forces defeated their enemies by entrapping them in the mountain passes.
Which brings me to my point. Jews barely ever inhabited coastal regions - one of the reasons that Judea stood independent was its mountain terrain - no army, modern or ancient, likes to get into the mountain warfare. Guess who inhabited the coastal areas? - Philistines! It is such a historical and moral travesty, besides being a military and strategic idiocy, to trade Coastal Areas for Judea! If Jews don't belong in Judea, we don't belong anywhere in Israel!