Israel’s lived history and perennially tense geopolitics have ensured that it remains paranoid about its security preparedness at all times. Planning for worst-case scenarios is institutionalised. The Six-Day War (1967) is cited as its defining moment, as Israel had launched pre-emptive strikes on its Arab neighbours based on the intelligence that they would soon be attacking the Jewish state. Israel’s sixth Prime Minister and the first from the hard-right, Menachim Begin, founded the Herut and later the Likud party, to which Israel’s current Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, belongs. Begin was driven by the “never again” principle predicated on the memory...
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