Get Used to It: Israel Is Here to Stay
October 24, 2012
By David Solway
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For it is almost inconceivable that a few million citizens of a newly established nation could successfully resist the military onslaught of vastly larger armies time and again. It must also contend against the enmity of its nominal allies in the West, the propaganda campaigns of the worlds major NGOs and opinion-forming bodies, the lies and slanders of the political and media elites, the ignorance of multitudes, and the specter of daily terror. It is equally inconceivable that this same beleaguered nation could at the same time become one of the worlds leading innovators in science, technology, medicine and agriculture, offering benefits to mankind out of all proportion to its numbers and circumstanceswhile reaping, for the most part, resentment, envy and violence.
For some, the continued existence of Israel is a sign of divine solicitude; for others, of human fortitude, hope and commitment at its most incandescent. But whatever the reason for this rarest of phenomena, the emergence of the theoretically impossible, it is a safe bet that Israel will still be around when its adversaries and detractors have succumbed to their own contradictions and dilemmas. Get used to it. Israel is here to stay.
Get Used to It: Israel Is Here to Stay
