And that is simply indefensible as a proposition.
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Israel has rejected a return to the 1967 lines for both security and spiritual reasons, arguing that the frontiers are indefensible and would mean a withdrawal from east Jerusalem, home to the city's holiest Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious sites.
Since DOMA has been declared unconstitutional and the Justice Department has declared it indefensible, there is a reasonable basis for that position.
It was Obama, not Abbas, who first stipulated that future "peace" negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians must be predicated on Israel's prior acceptance of the indefensible 1949 armistice lines as a starting point for talks.
Although it provided for the establishment of a tiny, indefensible Jewish statelet, the plan involved Jewish renunciation of their sovereign rights to the overwhelming majority of the land they had lawfully received sovereign title to under the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine.
But transaction fees, a 1-2% cut managers charged merely for consummating a deal, look indefensible now.
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That never came to pass, partly because Nye was unable to distinguish his opposition to arms profiteering from his advocacy of isolationism, a position that had become indefensible.
"There is that madness-genius gene in him because as a player he's exceptional, with people talking about him being player of the year, but what he did today, is indefensible, " said Redknapp, also a Sky analyst.
To the extent that the two-state solution assumes that Israel must contract itself to within the indefensible 1949 ceasefire lines, and allow a hostile Palestinian state allied with terrorist organizations to take power in the areas it vacates, the two-state solution is predicated on making Israel weak and empowering radicals.
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Ms Lagarde has played a central role in forming the euro zone's response to its debt crisis, and whatever her private views, she has a public record of defending the indefensible.
Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said blacklisting as a practice was "thoroughly objectionable and indefensible", while the health and safety issues in the construction sector were extremely important.
"Our troops should never ever be put in a position where they have to defend the indefensible, " Obama said.
One of them is that our troops should never, ever, be put in a position where they have to defend the indefensible.
He's a man who not only has to defend the indefensible, but actually enjoys it.
Both claimed that any settlement with Israel be preceded by an Israeli withdrawal to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines and by Israel's destruction as a Jewish state through its acceptance of millions of foreign-born, hostile Arabs as immigrants within its truncated borders.
There's an echo of "Network's" Howard Beale in the character of Arthur Edens (the reliably excellent Tom Wilkinson), a "killer litigator" who cracks up in the midst of a major case: the defense of an ethically indefensible agrochemical company that's been poisoning its customers.
He defended the indefensible after the Rabois incident, in part, because it was a case of one against all.
So we can't go back to those indefensible lines, and we're going to have to have a long-term military presence along the Jordan.
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One mooted scheme, to use Long Term Credit Bank as the rump of the new institution, is just absurd: to entrust new lending to a bank that has already squandered so much would be indefensible.
It seemed especially indefensible last year when it was reported that Augusta had yet to offer a membership to a new IBM CEO Virginia Rometty, despite a tradition of admitting male CEOs of the longtime Masters sponsor.
Either the Palestinians form a terror state from which it will wage war against the shrunken, indefensible Jewish state, or Israel expands the size of the Jewish state.
In short compass, calls that ranged from merely bad to utterly indefensible cost the Washington Redskins, New England Patriots and Green Bay Packers, respectively, a possibility of winning, a strong likelihood of winning and a game that was actually won.
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The US expanded its training program for the Palestinian armed forces and pushed Israel to accept a framework for Palestinian statehood that would more or less push it back to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines.
Sir Sandy Woodward, the retired admiral who led the British taskforce which set sail for the Falklands in 1982, told a newspaper earlier this week he feared the islands were "now perilously close to being indefensible".
If this policy is crude mercantilism, or a way to bolster the weak economic record so far of Prime Minister Abe, it is indefensible.
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