Stratfor
Crises are normally short, sharp and intense affairs. Israel's
predicament has developed on a different time frame, is more diffuse
than most crises and has not reached a decisive and intense moment. But
it is still a crisis. It is not a crisis solely about Iran, although the
Israeli government focuses on that issue. Rather, it is over Israel's strategic reality since 1978, when it signed the Camp David accords with Egypt.
Perhaps the deepest aspect of the crisis is that Israel has no
internal consensus on whether it is in fact a crisis, or if so, what the
crisis is about. The Israeli government speaks of an existential threat
from Iranian nuclear weapons.
I would argue that the existential threat is broader and deeper, part
of it very new, and part of it embedded in the founding of Israel.
