Milan Kundera once defined a small nation as “one whose very existence may be put in question at any moment; a small nation can disappear, and it knows it.”
If ever there was a country mortally threatened and in danger of disappearing, the State of Israel would be it. At its narrowest point, Israel is only 9 miles wide. Its puny size––its territorial non-expanse––and the ferocious enmity of its neighbors have combined to make the Jewish state acutely vulnerable to extinction.
And since its inception, Israel has known it.
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