No matter what they say about nuclear weapons possessed by Iran or hostile Arab neighbors who want to drive the Jews into the sea, it’s the least of Israeli worries, just as Saddam Hussein’s WMDs were no threat to Israel or anyone else for that matter, because they simply didn’t exist. What is interesting is reading what Israel thinks are their problems and why and the list is far more revealing than any I’ve seen to date. Here they are in the order mentioned in this article Seven Existential Threats.
1.The Loss of Jerusalem; partly due to the absence of Zionists living in the city.
2.The Arab Demographic Threat; Israel must be 70% Zionist in order to be legitimate and Arabs are having too many children
3. Delegitimization; Israel’s sins are receiving world wide attention which is bad for it’s reputation.
4.Terrorism; we’ve heard it all before.
5. A Nuclear-Armed Iran; we’ve heard this all before too.
6.The Hemorrhaging of Sovereignty; Israel doesn’t exert its control over people under its authority.
7.Corruption;The breakdown of public morality especially among it’s leaders.
The blog, War In Context, does a decent job dismantling some of the above notions but looking at Oren’s list, the originator of the 7 deadly threats to Israel, it appears his biggest complaint and remedy for it is the absence of Zionism and the need for more Zionism. Not much mention of Judaism as a religion, but rather Zionism as a political movement. One other line in his piece that brought about a chuckle was this assertion:
Israel, the Jewish State, is predicated on a decisive and stable Jewish majority of at least 70 percent. Any lower than that and Israel will have to decide between being a Jewish state and a democratic state. If it chooses democracy, then Israel as a Jewish state will cease to exist. If it remains officially Jewish, then the state will face an unprecedented level of international isolation, including sanctions, that might prove fatal.
Is he saying democracy is a threat to and not consistent with Israeli interests? Ohh, America, are you listening?
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