Originally posted by Goatboy
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I do agree that it will be devilishly hard to work out a scenario where Israeli troops are patrolling a region in a foreign country. Tanks and heavy weapons are easy to monitor, but how can Israel control the movement of people, and potential terrorists without check points along the border of the West Bank; that would be quite unacceptable to any sovereign country. Perhaps an alternative could be the West Bank being a fully autonomous state except for a Customs union with Jordan, a common currency, free movement of people.
I suggested that the settlers could remain because uprooting them by force as experienced in the past has proven extremely difficult politically for Israel and any attempt to undertake a forcible removal of tens of thousands of settlers in the West Bank could tear Israel apart. However, if the West Bank did pass out of Israeli sovereignty (minus security), most of the settlers would voluntarily leave as they would be no longer able to live their privileged lives as Colonial masters. The few that remain, in their gated communities , even if they are protected by the IDF, don't really do so much harm.
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