Why the 1967 borders work — or rather, the “1967+” borders– plus the large adjacent settlement blocs
Posted by middleeast on February 8th, 2009
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LETTERSFebruary 8: Why the 1967 borders workOn ‘67 borders Israel had virtually no demographic problems, no indigestible hostile lands, and no borderless and stateless paramilitaries. |
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Sir, – Re “Why Israelis worry” (Editorial, January 26): Is it too late for reassurance on why Israel shouldn’t have any security worries about a return to her 1967 borders?
Almost no headlines concerning present difficult problems or “bad news” would be on the pages of The Jerusalem Post today if Israel was on those borders. She won her most legendary, decisive, lightning war from those 1967 borders. She almost lost another one (Yom Kippur) from her most expansive borders ever that included even the Sinai Peninsula.
On those ‘67 borders Israel had virtually no demographic problems, no indigestible hostile lands, and no borderless and stateless paramilitaries. She was much more secure than now.
Especially in an age of rockets (and nukes), security is not even mainly about borders, but about accepting neighborhoods.
JAMES ADLER
Cambridge, Massachusetts