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For Israel, Recognizing an Enemy Is Second Nature

(JNS-Israel Hayom) Melanie Phillips - Unlike the pampered West, Israel permanently lives in a state of potential emergency and existential threat. From its experience of decades fending off attacks from physical enemies, Israel is geared to be proactive against threats to national security. It doesn't flinch from taking desperately difficult decisions in order to save lives - like shutting down much of its economy. More deeply still, Israel views every unnecessary death as a national tragedy. It would be unthinkable for Israel to sit out the threatened epidemic until enough people had been infected to provide "herd immunity" protection because those most likely to die in this process were "only" the old. Because the duty to protect the whole population is built into Israel's DNA, the same military and security forces that fight a physical enemy have been deployed to battle Covid-19, as has the fabled Mossad spy agency. The writer is a columnist for The Times of London.
2020-04-03 00:00:00
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