Eversince the Jewish state of Israel was created in 1948, the country has been facing stiff and repeated onslaughts from the surrounding Islamic countries, bent upon uprooting this new-born country. The Muslims of West Asia believe that the Western powers had forcefully settled the Jews from different parts of the world there by disturbing the Muslims. So they have been waging an unending war to wipe out Israel from the world map. Different terrorist groups like Al Fatheh, Hizbollah, Hamas etc are not allowing Israel to exist peacefully. Do you know how this small state has been braving these odds ?
Israel is surrounded by 22 Muslim countries. These countries occupy 640 times more land than Israel. Similarly populationwise also the Jewish state is precariously placed as the ratio works out to 1:50. There were occasions when all of them unitedly attacked Israel and instead of nailing Israel, countries like Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Palestine lost land to the enemy. This is so despite the fact that Israel does not maintain a regular army. Instead, the population at large including either sex is imparted intensive military training and whenever situation demanded, the government conscripted the required number of fighting forces.
By maintaining a close rapport with the USA and other European NATO countries, Israel maintains a marked superiority in the field of arms and ammunitions of the latest grade. So they are in a position of avoiding land skirmishes and strategically bombard the enemy locations and thus avoid casualties. In 1967 war, the aircrafts of Egypt were destroyed while parked on their air bases. This broke the backbone of the enemy. The huge Sinii peninsula of Egypt was occupied by the Israelites. Moreover, they do not believe in weaknead policies and unfailingly cause deterrent harm to the enemies. This has happened on all occasions in past including the present one with the Hamas in Gaza strip. As a result, the enemies think several times before becoming aggressive which has kept Israel alive and kicking so far. Is it a lesson for some other countries also suffering from religious terrorism and political extremism?
Israel's defence strategies, weapon technology and training are indeed admirable, especially given its diminutive size. Still remember an newspaper interview given by (i think) Ariel Sharon. He said - "If there's a big attack on India, it's huge size ensures that it will survive it for two months or more. But we are small and could be wiped out within a week. That's why we need to have an irrefutable edge on our enemies."
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