Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)

I don't even object to Israel annexing all the territory. It was taken through war and conquest, but that's pretty much every country... but then you need to make the conquered people citizens. That's generally the way things go... but Israel won't do that b/c then non-Jews would outnumber Jewish citizens, which would functionally mean the end of the Jewish state of Israel.

So their options are ethnic cleansing (obviously a war crime), or to withdraw to another border and give the Palestinians a viable state - one that they actually would care about so that if they attack Israel, and Israel retaliates, then they lose something of value to them.

I really do wish more people would study game theory... a lot of this makes sense in that context.