Israel today, after sixty years of struggle, faces only two overriding, and potentially destabilizing, issues—one the U.S.-imposed “peace process”, and the other the ever-closer Iranian nuclear capacity. That these issues are unfolding within the framework of the larger collapse of the Arab world (a process still known, euphemistically, as the Arab Spring—Arab Fall is better) is a complicating, but not critical, reality. Israel is the only success story in the Middle East, a thriving, technologically-advanced democracy with a Western-level living standard. That this remarkable fact, achieved despite constant sacrifice and defensive wars against its Arab neighbors, is consistently ignored by both the European Union countries and, generally, the Western media, is evidence of a mixture of incredible ignorance and active hostility.
