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== Land for Peace Agreements ==
Since the Six Day War, ideas have emerged about returning territories liberated during the war in exchange for peace agreements. Immediately after the war, Yigal Allon proposed the first plan for returning territories. The Rebbe expressed strong opposition to returning territories in exchange for peace and spoke about this many times. The Rebbe based his opposition on three main reasons:

# Pikuach Nefesh (Preservation of Life) - Military experts' position that any surrender of territory would endanger the security of Israel's residents.
# Lack of Authority - Eretz Yisroel was given to all of Am Yisroel together, and the government in Eretz Yisroel does not have the authority to give away parts of it.
# Halacha - The halacha states that "When non-Jews besiege Jewish cities... in a border city, even if they only come for straw and hay, we desecrate Shabbos for them, lest they capture the city and from there the land will be easy to conquer before them." From this, the Rebbe concluded that it is fundamentally forbidden to give border territories to an enemy, even when the current situation could endanger lives, as it could lead to total conquest by the enemy. The Rebbe noted that this halacha applies even outside Eretz Yisroel.

The Rebbe expressed strong opposition to understanding the conflict as a dispute over control and territories. The Rebbe saw the Arab claim to the land as challenging the very existence of Am Yisroel. Therefore, the Rebbe also saw mortal danger in any IDF withdrawal, even from territory not defined as Eretz Yisroel territory.
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