Middle East conflict is making Iran’s clerical regime seem ever more fragile, and Israel’s sense of nationhood even stronger.
Already a subscriber?An astute friend recently observed that today’s crisis in the Middle East boils down to one question about two dates: Which historic moment is more likely to be reversed: 1948 or 1979?
But the announcement forms part of the same broad strategy that Israel’s adversaries believe will ultimately be the downfall of the state: international delegitimisation and isolation, leading to gradual internal collapse or external conquest. Even Khan’s decision to seek the arrest of three Hamas leaders along with Netanyahu and Gallant is of a piece with the overall strategy, as it places Israel’s leaders on a moral par with a trio of terrorists.
Add to this mix a deep economic crisis – the Iranian rial now trades at about 577,000 to the dollar on the unregulated market – along with lingering fury over the brutal suppression of the 2022 protests, and the potential for severe instability or abrupt regime collapse is real.The single most serious risk to Israel, as former Iranian president Akbar Rafsanjani once put it, is that “the use of even one nuclear bomb inside Israel will destroy everything.
Israel’s harshest critics tend to miss the point, but Israelis don’t: they have nowhere else to go, a fact underscored by the waves of hatred now engulfing Jewish diasporic communities. The more pressure is exerted on Israel to relent in the face of its enemies, the more Zionism it will generate. Nothing so crystallises Jewish identity as these daily reminders of bigotry.
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