Even Tucker is making more sense than the government.
I’ve been thinking about this.
Netanyahu’s worldview feels fundamentally dark and pessimistic.
I would argue that this outlook is not just personal but rooted in a core strand of Israel’s national identity.
That identity is built around shared generational trauma, where Jewish history is understood as a pattern of exile, persecution, and repeated attempts at extermination.
From that perspective, the assumption becomes that the Arabs will never truly accept Israel.
If that is the premise, then peace can only come through overwhelming force and total capitulation of all Arab nations.
First build an iron wall of military dominance. Then negotiate from a position of absolute strength and dictate the terms.
But a worldview built on permanent existential threat requires that threat to remain central.
That raises a serious long term question.
Can a nation whose core identity anchored in perpetual siege sustain itself indefinitely, or does that foundation eventually erode its own viability?