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How will Israel fare if shrunk to its pre-Six Day War (1967) borders?

Israel is simply too small to allow for the deployment and maneuver of large warring armies, hence, as the Arabs persistently resolve to destroy Israel, Yigal Allon, as a Labor Deputy Prime Minister, declared (February 1967):

“Israel is entitled, nay, obligated and therefore capable of opening pre-emptive hostilities whenever war is imposed upon it – this being the most important and, in certain circumstances , the only means of securing its survival.”

Click here to read a paper from the Ariel Center for Policy Research.