“Has land for peace ever worked”
Worked fine for Israel, when the gave the Sinai to Egypt, and they’ve been at peace for over 40 years now.
RE: Worked fine for Israel, when the gave the Sinai to Egypt,
Yes, but Israel has demonstrated that she is militarily STRONGER than Egypt.
Ukraine is not as strong as Russia.
Not on account of the land. On account of Egypt getting defeated three times in a row, and having a falling out with the USSR, its erstwhile backer, and going into the US orbit as a result, and having a crappy economy so no finances for more defeats by Israel. The fact that during the Yom Kippur War, Egypt knocked Israel back on its heels initially, and held onto some sliver of land at the end gave Egypt enough saved face that they could talk peace with Israel, but in point of fact they didn’t have any fight left in them. But for Jimmuh’s pressure on Israel, they wouldn’t have gotten squat and still been at peace for 40 years.
Israel took Sinai in the 1967 war.
They were merely giving it back as part of a peace treaty.
Ukraine is different; Apples-Oranges.
“Worked fine for Israel, when the gave the Sinai to Egypt, and they’ve been at peace for over 40 years now.”
Faulty analogy all the way around.
The Sinai was not part of Israel. It was Egyptian territory occupied by Israel following the 1967 war. Per agreement between Egypt and Israel, Israel withdrew from Sinai, the withdrawal being completed in 1982. So, the Sinai was never Israel’s to give.
A more accurate analogy would be the following:
Russia attacks Ukraine (as Israel attacked Egypt in 1967). It occupies eastern Ukraine (as Israel occupied Sinai). Russia withdraws from eastern Ukraine (as Israel withdrew from Sinai).
See how an analogy works?