The issue is Israel has nuclear weapon. If Israel can continue its policies of eradicating Palestinians and building more settlements in the West Bank. A few decades from now, there would be only a few Palestinian enclaves left within Israel territory. After that, any country in the Middle East dares invading Israel would meet with nuclear weapon.
Time is ticking. Either Arabs stop Israel from taking most of West Bank now or it is too late. I just think it is already too late as Israel's plan of more settlements is already in fast motion.
Israeli nuclear weapons are actually incredibly fragile and almost unusable in the face of any nuclear counter threat due to the tiny size of Israel.
Iran and Saudi Arabia can take 10 nuke hits and still survive as a nation and people afterwards. 10 nukes would basically wipe Israel completely off the map and what little is left has zero chance of survival as a viable state afterwards.
The small size of Israel and its lack of SSBNs also make a surprise nuclear alpha strike by an enemy very appealing as it will have a high probability of completely wiping out Israeli second strike capabilities or at least limiting any second strike to acceptable levels.
This is why Israel is so hell bent on preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
Once anyone else obtains nukes, Israel’s nuclear arsenal becomes effectively unusable as to use it would mean the end of Israel, forever. A conventional military defeat, even a total one, is not going to result in the total eradication of Israel as a nation and the Jews as a people. No matter what the scare mongers might say.
The problem is that even without an Iranian nuclear breakout, it might already be too late for Israel since if the rumours are true, Saudi Arabia is already a de facto nuclear power due to their secret agreements with Pakistan. The recent SA-Iran détente is actually incredibly bad news for Israel since guess who those SA nukes are now pointed towards?
Despite its tenacity and vibrancy, from a purely objective point of view, Israel is a really terrible bet as your main partner in the ME. It is a tiny country almost universally hated by its neighbours, without the size or scale for true self sufficiency, and it has done little since it’s creation to try to better its relations with its neighbours to truly integrate itself into the region and instead has depended almost exclusively on the use and threat of military force to keep its neighbours divided and beaten down.
With its current policies, the only way to keep Israel safe is to keep the rest of the ME burning, and beaten down, and that’s basically what the Americans have had to do all these decades.
There is no way in hell China is going to carry that water of Israel. Hence why there is really no choice between the US and China for Israel to choose from when battle lines are being drawn. To think otherwise is to delude oneself. Morality and sentiment doesn’t matter in international relations, the only thing that truly matters are interests, and Israel’s interests will always mean it sides with the US.
