Reply #2: My argument wtith that..

[LeftishBrit]

is that Israel's moral right to defend itself against an independent Palestinian state would be *much greater* than its right to attack parts of its own country. (And yes, Brits *do* know what it is to have signficant terrorist threats emanating from part of their own country.) One of the key problems throughout has been that Israel has at the same time been treating the OTs as part of itself *and* as an enemy state.

The desirable option isn't to withdraw troops from the OTs while at the same time treating them as part of Israel - but to allow them to become a state in its own right. Hopefully the two states will live next to each other in mutual toleration. If there is a conflict, then it can be treated like any conflict between two separate states.