Can Israel Survive?  There's a great deal of speculation these
days on Israel's dire situation, most notably from renowned
author and scholar Victor Davis Hanson in the National Review,
who prefaces it with a remark that the country has never been in
more danger. The Islamist regimes in Egypt and elsewhere brought
on by the Arab Spring and their growing hostility to Israel, the
genocidal influence of Iran and its missile-armed proxies Hamas
and Hezb'allah, Erdoğan's Islamist Turkey, the huge influence of
Arab petro-dollars, and the indifference and growing anti-
Semitism in much of Europe and the exhaustion and debt of the
United States are frequently cited. It's a gloomy picture, and
none of it is to be trivialized.  But I think dire predictions
of Israel's demise are premature, to say the least. It's worth
remembering that Israel has faced far worse and survived.  In
1948, the British left Palestine, but not before confiscating as
many arms in the hands of Jews as they could find and...(Read
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