>The Four Wars of Israel/Palestine
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>Michael Walzer
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>The great simplifiers are hard at work, but Israel/Palestine has never been
>a friendly environment for them, and it is especially unfriendly today. They
>are bound to get it wrong, morally and politically, and that is a very bad
>thing to do, for the stakes are high. There isn't one war going on in the
>Middle East, and there isn't a single opposition of right and wrong, just
>and unjust. Four Israeli-Palestinian wars are now in progress. The first is
>a Palestinian war to destroy the state of Israel.
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>The second is a Palestinian war to create an independent state alongside
>Israel, ending the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
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>The third is an Israeli war for the security of Israel within the 1967
>borders.
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>The fourth is an Israeli war for Greater Israel, for the settlements and the
>occupied territories.
Does he mention five (the one proffered by Joel Schalit) - the war Israel fights to maintain national identity and avoid facing the fractures within Israeli soceity?
Doug