Moreover, Kosovar independence would likely spur irredentist movements among the Muslim minorities in all Balkan states.
Namely, it has to develop policies for dealing with an irredentist minority population.
The population in large sections of the Galilee is predominantly Arab, making it a natural target for irredentist incitement.
Williamson is among the most irredentist living, soi-disant conservative, champions of the pro-stagnancy policies of Bob Michel and Gerald Ford.
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As a result there is both an irredentist political motivation as well as a criminal intent to the constant harassment of Negev farmers.
The same people who think the so-called settlements are illegal would condemn as a war crime any attempt to enforce the law against irredentist Israeli Arabs.
These irredentist movements in turn would increase Muslim irredentism throughout Europe just as Palestinian statehood will foment an intensification of the Islamization of Israel's Arab minority.
With Palestinian and outside support, they will intensify their irredentist activities and so exert an even more devastating attack on Israel's sovereignty and right to national self-determination.
That would be particularly true if, as seems likely, such a state were to prove to be yet another radical, Islamist and irredentist Arab state -- one able and willing to aid and abet terrorist operations from its soil.
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It is hard to see why the best policy for Israel is to take some of that irredentist population off its books by establishing a terror state ruled by what Netanyahu rightly referred to as "the Israeli equivalent of al-Qaida" on its border.
If the Left can convince a sufficient number of voters that a united Jerusalem is a drain on the country's resources or that it is impossible to enforce Israeli law among an increasingly lawless and irredentist Arab population, then it will have a fighting chance of winning the elections.
Moreover, the establishment of the second Palestinian terror state after Gaza in Judea and Samaria would embolden some of Israel's Arab citizens in the Galilee and the Negev as well as in Jaffa, Lod, Haifa and beyond to escalate their already declared irredentist plans to demand autonomy or unification with whatever Palestinian terror state they choose.
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