Reply #24: In law this would be called an incomplete hypothetical and an unfair analogy. [View All]

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First, if the Arabs had won the 1967 war, there would be far fewer than a million Jews left alive to be sent to Gaza. There would not have been a massive exodus from Israel, as the Arabs would have slaughtered the Jews wholesale (at least this is what the Arabs claimed that they would do, and there is little reason to doubt that they would have). Second, the possibility that hard line Orthodox Jews would have taken over the Jewish community is, to be generous, highly unlikely. Third, the idea that they would claim that, "Palestine," had no right to exist is ludicrous, as the Jews accepted the Palestinian right to statehood way back in 1947 when they accepted the Partition Resolution. Fourth, it is almost unthinkable that they would direct indiscriminate fire against Palestinian towns. Fifth, there is no doubt that they would survive only a few hours if they did. Sixth, Walt's imaginings bear no relation to the reality of the middle east today. For that to occur, he would also have had to imagine that the Jews were originally led by Nazi sympathizers would pushed them into a war to eradicate the Palestinians, and that they kept up that war for decades despite losing at every turn. Even Walt's wild rantings can't go that far. This is just another intellectually vacuous and dishonest smear of the kind reasonable people have come to expect from Walt.