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Are Israel's Allies Abandoning a Sinking Ship?

“That Netanyahu himself has  worried  for a decade that Israel may not survive to reach its 100th birthday lends more credence to this fear that Israel is accelerating its own demise.” Jospeh Massad does not provide an overview of such a possible 'demise' . What does it mean? The Israeli state might collapse because of a civil war? Does this death or end mean Israel as a country and people would cease to exist? The French defeat in Algeria meant that the colonialists went back to France. Where would the 9.5 million Israelis go? Would the US and Israel's allies allow such a 'demise'? It is strange that such a far-fetching statement is made by Massad. 

“Arab Spring”

The author here does not consider the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt or Ennahda in Tunisia, for instance, part of the counter-revolution–socially and economically. He does not mention how and why they got support from the major imperialist powers, either. It is also a liberal journalistic piece that does not mention the class character of the Islamist parties even once. The end of political Islam as we know it