Can Israel Survive? Traditional pillars of the tiny democracy’s security have begun to erode.

The main pillar is not mentioned in this excellent column:  the God of Israel and of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; Our Creator and the One who promised the return of Israel to this land that He gave them thousands of years ago. One of many such promises God made to Israel is in Ezekiel 28:25-26. The Tunnel Dweller

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.   Full article here.
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"Third, Israel counted on Western moral support from America and Europe, as well as military support from the United States.
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"Until there is a change of popular attitudes in Europe or a different president in the United States, Israel is on its own to deal with an Iran that has already hinted it would use a nuclear weapon to eliminate the “Zionist entity,” with the radical Islamic madness raging on its borders, and with the global harassment of Jews.

"A tiny democratic beacon in the Middle East should inspire and rally Westerners. Instead, too often, Western nations shrug and assume that Israel is a headache — given that there is more oil and more terrorism on the other side."

 Ezekiel 37:1-14: The Valley of Dry Bones prophesies the return of Israel to their land after it was long thought dead; never to leave their land again

And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God. Amos 9:15; Old Testament