Israel doesn’t mean the Likud, no more than the United States means the Democratic party. It is the Bibi worshipers who confuse the two, not me. 1. Defensible borders is the position of 90 of 120 members of the Knesset, not just the 28 members of Likud. (The rest are split between Arabs, communists, anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews). There is disagreement over what this entails, but not the principle. It was as true for Rabin as it is for Netanyahu
2. Comparing Likud to the Democrats? You mean a free market nationalist party, vs the Democrats. You really are desperate.
The Likud's ultimate position is not "defensible borders" but annexation of all the occupied territories and either expulsion of the Arab majority and their marginalization via either disfranchisement and/or confinment to crowded isolated bantusans. If you don't see this as the ultimate agenda, you don't know much about Likud. Fortunately, their are some Likudites who honestly admit this, most recently Danny Danon, deputy speaker of the Knesset. See
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