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If you think that Israel can get away with exploiting a US war with Iraq by launching a campaign to expel 2 million people, I think you are mistaken. Maybe you think that Israel can survive an economic and military boycott by the Western world (which the US would join under these facts). If so, you are mistaken. Israel cannot and will not risk such a break with the US. Even Sharon can appreciate that. The fantacised expulsion campaign will not happen. Period.

Maybe you think that Israel can survive an economic and military boycott by the Western world (which the US would join under these facts).

If Israel did the inconceivable, and built gas chambers and crematoria to murder all the Palestinians, the US would never join a boycott against her. The government of Israel is well aware of this fact, and can safely make policy on that assumption. It would be far more likely that we would boycott the EU, which we have done before, effectively, with the Smoot Hawley tariff.