What was ‘indefensible’ in 1967 is completely irrelevant in 2011. You do not need the Golan Heights to protect Galilee or the Jordan Valley to protect Jerusalem or Gaza to protect Ashkelon.
The distance from Amman to Jerusalem is 45 miles. The flying time for a Lockheed SR-71 or a MiG-25 Foxbat is less than 80 seconds. That is the kind of ‘warning’ either side has of an attack. Does that mean the Jordan river is an indefensible border as well? Then perhaps Israel should annexe Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt too, as many Christian Zionists insist.
The best defense is a good neighbour. Israel badly needs some, not more F-35s. Either we uphold the rule of international law or we incite terrorism, and if the latter, we will always be insecure.
Netanyahu’s logic is vacuous. He wants to keep land stolen in 1967, which is inadmissible in international law.
I anticipate a major sea change in international opinion towards Israel by the Autumn when a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders is declared. Israel will become ever more isolated within the international community just as South Africa was under the Apartheid regime.
