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Preemptive war, trade problems, grab the territory and then keep it. Part of the biggest problem with Israel is that they listened to the IMF banker types and built their economy around methods of agriculture that donot work in the environment. If people who moved to Israel had studied how the natives lived and peacefully coexisted with them, instead of using more land,water and oil than their little "paradise had-there would be no conflict in the middle east. That is not a condemnation of the Jewish people, it is a condemnation of the capitalism they have chosen to substitute for their faith. They have indeed created the terror that now consumes them by using military force instead of mediation, coexistence and eschewing some of the conveniences and profit that make them have to control more and more land .