Alwaght- In the middle of growing possibility of collapse of the Israeli cabinet, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo recently warned of possible collapse from within of the Israeli regime. Noting Israel is wealthy and affluent, Pardo added: "but it is collapsing."
"After four election campaigns in two years, Israel established a complex government that garnered a Knesset majority, and to date, even with 58, this Israeli government has not been toppled, this is Israeli government," he went on.
According to the ex-spy head, Israeli destruction is not about foreign threats like Hezbollah or Iran, rather it has chosen "self-destruction" .
The Israeli official obviously refers to the state of politics and governance in the Israeli regime over the past few years, which has usually been caused by dispute among the political parties that naturally resulted in a domino of early elections. Less than a year after a government was born out of a coalition between Neftali Bennett and Yair Lapid and a number of other parties, Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, of Meretz party, quitted the ruling coalition, leaving it teetering on the brink of collapse.
The prediction of Israeli destruction is normally heard by the Israeli settlers and Muslim public from the leaders of Axis of Resistance, a regional bloc led by Iran and including Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and Palestine, as an undisputed issue. However, making such predictions by the Israeli officials and Jewish thinkers has a different sense, and raises the question as why the Israelis themselves warn of such a fate.
A nation-state built on fake and imposed foundations
Scholars and political experts in examining the foundations of a nation-state address the basic components of population, territory, and sovereignty. Through the window of these components, it can be clearly shown to what extent the emergence of a nation-state under the name of Israel is fake and lacks the basic foundations for the formation of a nation-state.
Territory is the most basic pillar of foundation of any nation-state. To put it more clearly, to form a nation-state, there must be a specific territory. Contrary to the absolute majority of the world's nation-states that since the old times had territory in their name, the Israeli regime was founded by a will of the victorious sides of the World War II in a territory belonging to the Muslims in Palestine. Israel was founded in a territory the Israelis falsely claim to be historically a Jewish land. If this claim is approved, modern countries should have never been born because in the ancient times there were a handful number empires. Roman and Persian empires are good examples. So, it can be asserted that the Israeli regime is founded coercively in a territory belonging to another nation and therefore lacking the first pillar necessary to a nation-state. This situation makes the security factor non-established in terms of home governance and concerning the population under the rule and in terms of foreign policy and concerning the relations with countries, something making Tel Aviv struggling with security crisis and existential concerns in a never-ending way.
The second requirement of a nation-state is the existence of a population in a specific territory or geographical area. In this dimension, too, the nation-state of Israel, established on May 14, 1948 under Prime Minister David Ben-Gurian and immediately recognized by the US and the Soviet Union, is based on a history of bloodshed, killing, and displacement of the original population of Palestine. In 1948, the regime waged war against the original Palestinian population, forcing more than 700,000 Palestinians to migrate, and for decades relocated various Jews from around the world to the occupied territories. Therefore, in the occupied territories, there is no population with a common history, but the vast majority of the Jewish population in this usurped territory is immigrants, which means that the regime lacks the second pillar of the nation-state. This reality always demonstrated itself in the form of a reverse immigration crisis and the prevailing perception of non-Israeli national identity among citizens of the occupied territories.
Sovereignty, as another pillar of a nation-state in the international system, means the will of a government that rules in a territory with a certain population and there is no will higher than its will. The sovereignty must also be recognized internationally as much as internally. In this respect, the state-nation of Israel is not recognized by a large part of the domestic population, including Muslims. Internationally, a large number of countries consider this regime illegitimate and do not recognize its existence. Therefore, nation-state of Israel lacks the sovereignty, too.
Heavy burden of a historical fate
Although several-thousand-year historical Jewish narrative with displacement and dispersal of the Jewish people until the advent of the great savior of the Jews and return of them to the promised land provided the West and Zionism with a pretext to form a entity called Israel with the slogan of ending the historical plight of the Jews to facilitate domination of the sensitive West Asia region, the constant reproduction of this narrative inevitably formed a shadow of historical fear over the collective unconscious of the Israeli elites and citizens.
Perhaps the most tangible reason for this is regular warnings by Israeli officials about the "curse of the eighth decade." For the Israelis, 80 is a unlucky number. Their legends suggest that the Jews have never seen their government over time passing the eighth decade, except for David and Hasmonean eras. Even under these two, the collapse started in the eighth decade. Influenced by the ongoing crises, many in Israel, including the ex-PM Ehud Barak and Pardo, are afraid of the eighth decade curse striking them and depriving them of seeing 2028, namely the start of the eighth decade.
This issue becomes even more serious if we know that internal conditions are so critical that even the Israeli officials themselves admit that the settlement projects, as well as warlike policies, are for delaying the collapse.
Also, during 2020 and 2021, four rounds of elections were held in the Israeli regime, the last of which was in March 2021. During these four elections, the lack of consensus among the political factions to form a coalition led to the failure of the formation of the government and holding of early elections. The shaky Bennett-Lapid coalition, which was formed in June 2021, is on the brink of fall.
Field reports suggest that after 74 years of the age of Israeli, various Israeli governments only managed to attract 41 percent of the Jews of the world. Even the head of the Jewish Agency for Israel warns that the migration rate dropped to 43,000 in 2001 from 70,000 in 2000 and then to 30,000 in 2002 and to 19,000 in 2003-2013 period. This number is currently 10,000. Besides, polls show that 40 percent of the Jews think about migration in case of appropriate opportunity due to lack of security and never-ending concerns about military tensions.
All these vindicate ex-Mossad chief's remarks that the Israeli regime would self-destruct for some reasons. This can be the misfortune of the eighth decade that rocks the Israelis.
