> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:22 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I like this argument. It seems to boil down to the idea that dismantling all
>
>> those settlements and roads just wouldn't be feasible - unlike dismantling a
>> nuclear-armed state.
>>
>>
>
> And in a matter of years, it will be a nuclear-armed state with an Arab
> majority. Just imagine the excitement! (I believe the land under Israeli
> control may already have an Arab majority, but of course the current
> apartheid system prevents residents of Gaza and the West Bank from voting in
> Israeli elections.) So what then? Further apartheid measures may maintain
> Jewish minority rule for a while, but that sort of thing can't be sustained
> indefinitely
I don't really follow your logic. The Israeli state faces demographic problems down the road, therefore it will be more amenable to dismantling itself than to dismantling the settlements?
SA