For one, Israel can comfortably subtract Gaza's 1.5m inhabitants from its demographic nightmare, maintaining, for a while longer perhaps, the Jewish majority.
Israel does not start with an R
It starts with an I, not an R.
( z1 start :polarity - :ARG0 ( z2 country :name ( z3 name :op "Israel" ) ) :ARG2 ( z4 string-entity :value "R" ) )