Can Israel Survive?
Traditional pillars of the tiny democracy’s security have begun to erode.
By Victor Davis Hanson
Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. Eight million Israelis are surrounded by some 400 million Muslims in more than 20 states. Almost all of Israel’s neighbors are anti-Israeli dictatorships, monarchies, or theocracies — a number of them reduced to a state of terrorist chaos.
Given the rise of radical Islam, the huge petrodollar wealth of the Middle East, and lopsided demography, how has Israel so far survived?
The Jewish state has always depended on three unspoken assumptions for its tenuous existence.
First, a democratic, nuclear Israel can deter larger enemies. In the Cold War, Soviet-backed Arab enemies understood that Israel’s nuclear arsenal prevented them from destroying Tel Aviv.
https://www.nationalreview.com/article/397436/can-israel-survive-victor-davis-hanson
Can Israel Survive? Dam right they can. They have Balls not like our government.
Actually they have billions of dollars every year given to them by our government, which has plenty of “Balls” [sic] but apparently even more reason and restraint.
Comment by #2 is right on the money.
Money can’t fight freedom. We keeping trying that and look where we are. Its about standing up to your enemy not try to buy them off .
Better we give that money to a friend then what the government is giving to our enemy
The United States gave $440 million in fiscal year 2013 to the Palestinian Authority,” Poe said. “We all know that money is fungible. The more money we give to help them with these ‘job programs,’ the more money the Palestinian Authority has to pay terrorists.”
comment by #2 is boderline delusional… (re: current administration (aka “our government))