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A state of insecurity

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Nathan Alpert/GPO

Published: 22 April 2017

Last updated: 4 March 2024

‘Fear-mongers are more dangerous than terrorists’ – Yuval Noah Harari – BBC Viewsnight 05.04.17
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Why Israelis live in constant fear, and how their leaders capitalise on it – Daniel Bar-Tal – Haaretz 19.04.17
Beliefs relating to security and insecurity are characteristic not only of individuals, but also of groups, societies and nations. And they are [primarily] subjective, not objective; for Jewish Israelis they are not connected to the number of nuclear bombs in Israel’s arsenal, or to the number of F-35 stealth bombers it possesses.

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