I assume by 1967 border you mean pre-Sinai war.
Yes, but there could be mutually agreed adjustments.
... a strong military in Israel is needed since its neighbors continually attack it. Not just neighbors, but with moderate frequency Arab states attack Israel. If the military became week...you would definitely seen arab invasion.
Yes that is true about having hostile neighbors. They have reasons also to be mad at Israel. The conflict has been going on 60 years and Israel has taken land they considered to be theirs. Israel has killed them with about a 20 to one ratio. If that stopped for more than a decade, pehaps fewer would be willing to become walking bombs, etc. The mine fields along the border I suggested would also help keep the terroist out.
Not because it desires to exand, if anything it's given up more land than gained.
They do not see it that way. True the captured Sanai was returned, and it is larger than Israel is now. They see it more like a robber returning part of what has been taken by supperior force. The current state of war is costly for both, especially Israel's enemies. If Israel did practice the defensive option instead of the high-kill-ratio option for a decade or so, the economy of the Palestinians would greatly improve (and Israel's also) so the Palestinians would have more to live for, be less willing to blow themselves up, I would think. It seems worth a try, especially as the basic idea is to reduce the deaths on BOTH sides. The current policy is a clear failure and in a decade or two the susuide bombers will be spreading Ebola etc. not just killing a few at a bus stop.
...You need to realize Israel is not fighting a war, they are fight a bunch of terrorists who seem to take random unorganized actions. You can't fight them; they will randomly at work take out an AK47 and start shooting people. They will be walking home from their mosque and pick up their gun and run into a synagogue. They will be working with a tractor and randomly start running over people. After years of knowing their friends they will come to work with a bomb strapped to their chest. If a man is walking through their portion of a city they will harass them...and if they yell back everyone will get togeather and kill them by stomping their faces in. Their children are mean, and will throw explosives at IDF soldiers (that could cause harm) as a prank. If you live in cities like Chevron, they sneak in your house to murder you at night. Their children throw rocks at your children and you while their parents laugh.
I do not doubt that what you state is true, but they could say the same about Israel, and in fact Israel is killing more, destroying more etc. than they are. (I admit this is mainly because they can not do as much, not a statement of their lesser thrust for "blood of the enemy.")
You bring up a good point - the attack from within - That is a problem with my plan. - You are the first to do so. Thank you. Of course all societies have this problem to some extent. In the US when someone enters a school, wips out a couple of guns and starts firing, normally it is someone who has been rejected by his peers. In the US , we have a leagal right to "bear arms." In Israel, one thing one could do is to seal off some areas and make very complete search for illegal weapons. - Again using technology to help - the stuff used at airports to detect faint traces of explosives with chemical cloth wipes etc. Also it would be worth it to offer rewards (Bring in a gun, get cash - not ID taken etc. Even have PO box for the reward when a tip correctly tells where a weapon is hidden, etc. - I do not live there so bet people who do can suggest better ideas to reduce the threat from within.) Again, if Israel were perceived as trying to be just, paid for homes taken years ago, etc. trying only to defend itself, I think that would do a lot to reduce the danger from within.
Nothing is going to be 100% a success or quick. The real question for me, is which option will reduce the deaths. Even if only Israeli deaths are counted, I think the defensive approach will, in contrast to a future where Israel is up against Ebolia etc. is being spread for high rise windows etc.
...The missiles being shot of the borders are really not that bad, Israel would shoot them down but it's just not financially possible at present. None of it is relavent since they rarely kill anybody, they just make life annoying.
I tend to agree. They are really crude ineffective weapons that mainly make the terrorist feel good to be "striking back," but it would cost only a few bullets for a CIWS to shoot them down and certainly worth couple of dozen artillery shells to "shred any living thing" that is at the lauch point 30 second, or less, after the first is launched. Note that the development of such an integrated, radar-controlled, counter-fire artillery system would be good for dealing with more conventional invasions also. (They do not come out of no where- Israel could move equipment before it happens.)
I think Israel should stay strong - have war games etc. as the US and Europeans do. Keep developing first-line world-class fighter jets and tanks etc. (Brazil has bought some tanks and soon will replace a lot ot its fighters. I.e. sell this stuff too.) Just stop killing "the enemy" so much more than he is killing Israelis. The number of innocent sub-teenagers killed by Israel exceeds all Israeli deaths. This is not just or even wise in the long run. If Israel continues this High-Kill-Ratio policy thur its seventh decade, I think it highly likely that in the eight decade Israel will be fighting an enemy making biological war on Israel. Is that where you want Israel to be? Or is it time to change from "more of the same"?
Let think more about Israeli's future than tomorrow or next month. Israel will never kill all the arabs - present policy is just increasing the number who will willing die to hurt Israel and the funds / modern technology made available to them.