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Ask JTF for Sunday, April 26, 2009

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Secularbeliever:
Shalom Chaim,

I totally fail to understand the left wing of Israel.  if you take them at their word they want Israel to live within the June 1967 (pre war) borders and abandon areas taken by Israel in June 1967.  When it comes to Judea and the Shomron they complain about Jews occupying and ruling over large numbers of Arabs.  Yet they are just as eager to abandon the Golan that has a very small non Jewish population, as they were to abandon the Sinai which had little population of any kind.

What I fail to understand is what is sacred (to them) about the pre June 67 borders?  Those were basically just the armistice lines after the War of Independence.  No Arab nation ever accepted them.  They often refer to them as internationally recognized borders.  The UN in 1947 allocated a ridiculously small sliver of land to Israel that did not include the Negev or Galilee.  If Israel retreated to the May 67 line would the Arabs not just start campaigning to get the Negev and Galilee back to push Israel back to the real internationally recognized borders?  As the world learned to accept Israel's gains in 1948 why not force them to accept what is left of our gains in 1967?

The only conclusion I can draw is that the left wing Jews are sorry that we won the 67 war.  Perhaps it gives too much credence to divine miracles,   A few years ago on the 40th anniversary of the six day war there was quite a bit of revisionist history about how the six day war was not that great for Israel.  Would tens of thousands of Jewish deaths have been better?  Would the massacre of large numbers of Jewish women and children have suited them better?  Is this a question that should be left to psychology professionals to wonder why people sometimes hate themselves?

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