"The weak collapse, are slaughtered and erased from history, while the strong survive - rightly or wrongly. The strong are respected, alliances are made with them, and in the end peace is made with them."
Strong words, but not from a dictator like Adolf Hitleras some might think, but from a speech given by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu During a ceremony to rename the Dimona nuclear reactor Shimon Peres. These words were later posted on his official Twitter account.

The birth of the State of Israel was difficult and bloody. Jewish terrorists, including later prime ministers such as Menachem Begin andYitzhak ShamirThey killed hundreds of British soldiers and Arab civilians, and even tried to carry out attacks inside Britain itself. Israel was founded on terrorism and has since relied on military action for its survival: A war against Arab neighbors during what it calls its "War of Independence" (Palestinians call it Catastrophe) from November 1947 to July 1949; reprisals in the 1950s and 1960s; the Tripartite Aggression against Egypt in 1956; the Six-Day War in June 1967; the War of Attrition between 1967 and 1970; the October 1973 War; the invasion of Lebanon in 1982; the conflict in southern Lebanon until 2000; and the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Israel also launched three large-scale military attacks on the Gaza Strip in December 2008, November 2012, and July-August 2014.

The Palestinian territories witnessed two intifadas: The first from 1987 to 1993 and the second from 2000 to 2005. Israeli aircraft also bombed the Nuclear warpage near Baghdad in June 1981, targeting a reactor Growing up near Deir ez-Zor, Syria, in 2007.

A sense of alienation and insecurity has driven Israel to build one of the most powerful military forces in the world and to seek the latest weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear bombs. Although Israeli officials have never officially confirmed the possession of a nuclear weapon, the program is widely known. All of this would not have been possible without Western, especially American, support. According to the The MarkerThe U.S. has provided Israel with 233.7 billion dollars (after accounting for inflation) since 1948, including 135 billion dollars in the form of military aid only until 2017, not counting funding for missile defense systems.

The U.S. placed at Israel's disposal a vast arsenal of weapons stored at a base in the Negev known as War Reserve Ammunition Stockpile - Israel (WRSA-I)Israel was authorized to use this arsenal in the 2006 war against Lebanon and later during its aggression against Gaza in the summer of 2014. During the 1973 war, Washington was quick to provide Israel with more than 100 F-4s, as well as tanks, guns, and thousands of tons of ammunition. With all this military power, Israel is still unable to feel secure.

Identity and escaping geography

Israel presents itself as part of the Western world, even though it is located in the heart of the Middle East. For example, its sports teams participate in European tournaments and take part in the Eurovision Song Contest. It goes to great lengths to prove its "Jewish roots," even though the majority of its population is of Eastern European rather than Middle Eastern origin.

The Jewish settlers faced a great challenge when they were told they were going to a "land without people for people without land," only to discover that this land was already inhabited by Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and even Jews. They had to fight the indigenous people for every inch of land to establish a "Jewish nation-state".

As part of the "Islamization" process, most of the new immigrants adopted new Hebrew names, such as:

• David Green became David Ben-Gurion

• Moshe Chertok became Moshe Sharett

• Golda Mapovich I became Golda Meir

• Yitzhak Yazernitsky became Yitzhak Shamir

• Shimon Persky became Shimon Peres

As for Benjamin NetanyahuAlthough he was born in Israel, his father came from Poland and his name was Benzion Melikovsky.

On the level of daily life, Israel has appropriated Palestinian foods such as Falafel andChickpeas andKubba and labeled them as Israeli foods. It did the same with Palestinian embroidery and music, which has come to be presented as an "Israeli" heritage.

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It's not just food and culture; place names have been "Islamized" as well. It became Al-Aqsa Mosque It is marketed as the "Temple Mount," and villages, towns, streets, and mountains have been renamed with Hebrew names as part of a campaign to Judaize Palestine.

The usurpation of the land was justified as a "divine promise" to "God's chosen people". Ironically, most Israelis self-identify as "secular" or "atheist". Many Zionists argue that Palestinians are just "nomads" who can simply go somewhere else. This denies thousands of years of Palestinian history and culture rooted in the land, and ignores morality, say Israel's defenders, who argue that it is immoral to deny Jews - survivors of pogroms and Nazism - a land of their own.

In the context of "white man's burden" rhetoric, Zionists claim that they have brought progress and prosperity to the region, and that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is "the most moral army in the world." Accordingly, Palestinians should accept what Israel gives them out of "generosity," because they own nothing and deserve nothing in the first place. In a literary dimension, they seem to be playing Prosper exiled to the heart of the Middle East, not to live in harmony with the land and its inhabitants, but to lead and subjugate them.

Israel: From self-isolation to existential questioning

Politically, Israel is slipping further and further to the right, towards extremism and isolation. As Netanyahu's words make clear, the most powerful and destructive weapons have not succeeded in making his country feel safe. The most pressing question within Israel, more than 70 years after its establishment on the land of others, is: How long will the country exist?
Palestinians don't ask such a question, because they know that these their landregardless of the political system that governs or oppresses them.
It is clear that changing names alone does not turn an occupier into a child of the land.
Israel has failed in its quest for security.
Source: Middle East Monitor