Israel and its election system

[OakWood]

Bopeep,  Pre-1967 borders amounts to the land Israel was in possession of prior to the six day war.   Going back to those borders means that Israel would lose its early warning radar system in Judea and Samaria that is needed so that Israel can be warned of an attack from an Arab State.   It is this early warning system that Israel uses to deploy its surface to air missile system.   Going back to the pre1967 borders means giving up its security.

 

In addition, going back to the pre-1967 borders puts Israel's David Ben Gurion Airport, which is only three miles from the West Bank in a lot of danger, which is a HUGE security risk.  Once Israel leaves the West Bank, the People of Israel most of whom live in the most narrow corridor between the west bank and the Mediterranean Sea would be  in grave danger, as they would be sitting ducks.  As it stands there is a security fence that keeps terrorist rockets from raining down on Israel's cities from the west bank, but that would be lost if Israelis were forced to return to what they had prior 1967 with a much, much larger population than they had in 1967 to boot.

 

It would also mean losing Jerusalem as well.

 

Jerusalem IS Israel. Without Jerusalem Israel may as well be a Jewish state in South America, Russia or Europe, or anywhere else for that matter, If the Israelis don't have Jerusalem then they don't officially exist as Israel. I can't see Jerusalem being lost to them.

[OldSchool2]

Herzog would like to, but God is sovereign and only what God allows to happen will happen.   The land is not Herzog's to give away.    He wants to befriend Obama, which should tell you a lot about him right there.

Supposedly Obama was indirectly funding Herzog's campaign through our state department, for what good it did him.

"In a dizzying outcome to a divisive and angry Israeli election campaign, preliminary official results early Wednesday pointed to a sweeping victory for the party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, paving the way for him to form a new government.

"Through a long night of vote-counting that began with exit polls suggesting a dead heat, Netanyahu's conservative Likud Party opened a lead over his main rival, the left-center Zionist Union, that widened by dawn to five or six seats in the 120-member Knesset, or parliament. With more than 99% of the vote counted, the tally was 29 or 30 seats for Likud to 24 for the Zionist Union, according to tallies posted on Israeli news sites. A final count will take some days...."