The country that can't lose a war

'The occupied territories are so because Israel happened to win every war in which she was engaged. Had she lost even one of those wars, she would not now be occupied herself; she would simply have ceased to exist.'

From one of two good letters on Israel in today's Independent.

Incidentally, if the possibility of offence to members of ethnic minorities is going to determine what is fit for newspapers to print, I expect sweeping changes in one or two papers' attitudes to criticism of Israel.