Some people would have you believe that a silly soundbite makes good policy.
The 1967 lines were specifically not "Auschwitz Borders". although for some it does play into the sense of entitlement and victimhood they feel. And in questions of "victimhood" and "entitlement" these extreme right wing Jews are no different from the Palestinians.
Let's see: First, when Jews and others perished at Auschwitz, there was no Jewish state. And the Jewish state of 2011 is a nuclear-armed, scientific and industrial economic powerhouse (member of the OECD, noch). Hardly, the enfeebled masses who went "like sheep to the slaughter". Sloganeering about "Auschwitz Borders" is disrespectful to the memory of the six million and shows little or no faith in Israel as a Jewish and democratic state. But then again, the far right have proved beyond doubt that they have little or no faith in Israel and only masquerade as Zionists and Israel's champions.
Second, was it not from those very same "Auschwitz Borders" that Israel gained its greatest - albeit Pyrrhic - victory? That's right, Israel was able to launch a war in 1967 without the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Sinai and win. So these lines aren't "indefensible" as some moaners would have you believe.
Israel has three choices: "mis"-manage the conflict and carry on the occupation with a majority of non-Jews being ruled by Jews; give the non-Jews full and equal Israeli citizens' rights, which is suicide for Israel as a Jewish and democratic state; or relinquish the "Greater Land of Israel" nightmare and stay a Jewish democratic state.
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