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Can Israel Survive?
Townhall.com ^ | January 29, 2015 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 01/29/2015 2:18:52 AM PST by Kaslin

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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Egypt; Extended News; Israel; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: egypt; gaza; hamas; iran; islam; israel; israelsurvival; jordan; kurdistan; kurdsitan; lebanon; middleeast; obamaislam; obamaislamgraphic; russia; sinai; syria; turkey; vdh; waronterror

1 posted on 01/29/2015 2:18:52 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The Jews have survived the Egyptians, that Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Romans, the Muslims, and the Nazis. They were scattered across the globe for close to two thousand years, only to reappear as if by magic, to the same plot of ground.

Many a would-be ruler have long since turned to dust yet Israel still goes about its business. Yes, it will survive.


2 posted on 01/29/2015 2:57:18 AM PST by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: cotton1706

Ams Yisrael Chai !


3 posted on 01/29/2015 3:04:47 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Kaslin

LOL, someone hasn’t been reading their Bible and studying history.


4 posted on 01/29/2015 3:40:58 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: Kaslin
Sam Cohen. The Jewish scientist who created the weapon Israel needed most.

Sam Cohen creator of the neutron bomb.

5 posted on 01/29/2015 3:48:06 AM PST by Bobalu (Programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file)
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To: Kaslin

Yes, Israel will survive. Read Zacharia chapter 12-14.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 3:50:38 AM PST by Texas Songwriter
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To: Kaslin

Israel can, America cant.


7 posted on 01/29/2015 4:18:09 AM PST by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: cotton1706

The Great I AM has spoken, and He says Israel will never perish. Every other nation that has existed and currently exists will perish, however, in the dustbin of history.

Count on it!


8 posted on 01/29/2015 4:52:56 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Kaslin

Yes.

(I skipped ahead to the end of the book, and I saw how it ends)


9 posted on 01/29/2015 5:11:06 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Kaslin

The eternal struggle.
The Obama administration is using taxpayer dollars to fund a radical anti-Israel group that aims to drive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office in March parliamentary elections.......


10 posted on 01/29/2015 5:25:09 AM PST by Broker (Obama is rogue.)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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11 posted on 01/29/2015 5:28:30 AM PST by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: Kaslin

Israel has a biblical promise that she will survive.

Our survival is the one in doubt. A major party rejected God three times on national TV, and we elected them anyway. Muslim Brotherhood now occupies the White House, and after repeatedly looking for ways to humiliate the Israeli Prime Minister the White House has now intervened in Israeli elections to see him removed from office. (Clinton did the same thing, successfully, but Netanyahu fought his way back...)

We recruited Muslim Brotherhood into every agency of the government. We are now bringing muslims here by the tens of thousands while rejecting middle east Christians who are the actual victims of our own policies, being slaughtered and driven from every town in Iraq and Syria.

We’re the ones who have now approved Sharia courts in Texas of all places. If Texans have fallen to the point that they will abide this, alongside all the other evidences of a degraded republic, then there is a dark day coming.


12 posted on 01/29/2015 5:47:21 AM PST by marron
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To: marron

“Sh’ma Yisrael: Adonai elohenu, Adonai echad.”

The only Hebrew I really know, though not just that by a far cry to which I adhere.


13 posted on 01/29/2015 6:40:17 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Sir Napsalot; Kaslin; neverdem; EXCH54FE; 2ndDivisionVet; Rummyfan; smoothsailing; Hojczyk; ...
How sad that such a question is even asked. Solely due to the Occupy_WH traitor to our allies. VDH ping ...


14 posted on 01/29/2015 6:45:41 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Oh Mr. Obama:

Allah = SATAN.


15 posted on 01/29/2015 9:14:13 AM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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