starman2003 wrote:You could say the same about the West Bank, yet they've held it for over 56 years. And if they want a "war of expansion" inevitably they'll have to "swallow" large numbers of arabs.
The situation with the West Bank is vastly different, the Zionist settler groups are committed to settling the West Bank, far more than they were with the Gaza Strip. Even the political establishment is invested in West Bank Settlements, with a number of political leaders living in West Bank Settlements. It's a far larger land mass, with far more Jewish Settlements, Jewish religious sites, infrastructure, etc. The geographic dynamics pretty much put the occupied territory within the heart of Israel itself. Plus Israel views its security as being dependent upon holding and controlling access through the West Bank - unlike Gaza, an attack from Gaza is dangerous and deadly as we can see, but it is not an existential threat to Israel's existence as what an attack via the West Bank would be as it would come via a power such as an actual Arab state instead of Militants). Plus the Palestinian population in the West Bank is relatively more peaceful than that of the Gaza Strip, with a great many Palestinians from the West Bank working in Israeli settlements or Israel proper.
So no, you can't say the same thing as the dynamics are differnt.
starman2003 wrote:Anyway ethnic cleansing is now all too possible on the West Bank.
Already been happening. Settlement activity has always been low key aimed at supplanting Arabs with Jews, bit by bit, House by House, grove by grove, farm by farm. The settlers don't hide this fact.
Certainly, if they just rounded up all the Arabs and bussed them out of the West Bank (as a previous Mayor of Jerusalem once recommended), there would be an international outcry of ethnic cleansing. Instead, the Zionists are using the Soviet Salami technique, "Slice by Slice." They have been at it for years, they are in no rush.