Existential threats to Israel: learning from the ancient past

S. David

DOI:10.1080/13537121.2012.717386

Corpus ID: 143515832

Existential threats to Israel: learning from the ancient past

@article{David2012ExistentialTT,
  title={Existential threats to Israel: learning from the ancient past},
  author={S. David},
  journal={Israel Affairs},
  year={2012},
  volume={18},
  pages={503 - 525}
}

S. David

Published 2012

Sociology

Israel Affairs

Israel is one of the only countries whose existence is openly called into question. There are a number of contemporary threats that could bring an end to Israel as a Jewish democracy. They include ‘hard’ threats of nuclear destruction and conventional invasion and ‘soft’ threats of an emerging Arab majority and elite actions to end Israel either as a Jewish state or as a democratic state. Israeli policymakers can learn how to cope with these threats by examining how Israel was destroyed in… CONTINUE READING

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