I agree completely, but add an extra point: This is yet another example of Israel flunking "Diplomacy 101." I can list many others. This can only be reckoned pathological.
The inability or unwillingness to be diplomatically courteous is a self-indulgence a small, threatened country just can't afford. No one expects Israelis to be more skilled in diplomacy than any other country, but they're considerably less skilled than any other Western country.
Whether fair or not, they need to be above-average, diplomatically. They're right to suspect that many people don't like Israel because they don't like Jews, and some of these critics are irredeemable and inveterate antisemites.
hey get it that this means Israel needs a better-than-average military. It's not fair, but the world's not fair. They do what they have todo.
But why don't they get it that this *also* means they need better-than-average diplomacy?
What's gone wrong in Israeli security culture that they fail to see something so obvious: their attitude toward diplomacy has damaged their interests? .
The hostility it engenders when Israelis are rude to their allies doesn't reveal that said allies are and have always been pathological anti-semites. It reveals a profound dysfunction in Israel's security culture. Heads should roll for this.
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