Long before the establishment of Israel on the ruins of historic Palestine in 1948 – the Nakba, or catastrophe, for Palestinians – the language of existential threat was deeply embedded in Zionist political thinking. In September 2023, speaking alongside US President Joe Biden, he said, as reported by Reuters: “I think that under your leadership, Mr President, we can forge a historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia,” adding that such a deal would “go a long way first to advance the end of the Arab-Israeli conflict, achieve reconciliation between the Islamic world and the Jewish state.” From Israel’s perspective, this convergence of pressures reinforces both real and imagined fears – not only to state security, but to the ideological foundations upon which the state was built.
Author: Editor
Published at: 2026-03-30 22:00:00
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