[danielschonfeld]

I think we are saying the same here. Yes it’s 100% about keeping the conflict alive and thereby keeping your reins on power.

By default I mean that before modern times, in the past, when the country was young it was about survival and hence about land and all the ideology and history stories we had around it. But those times have passed. Today we are a power house in the Middle East to be reckoned with. For now almost the last country standing with a functioning (funny I know) government in the area. We are not fighting for land. Our neighbors are powerless to give us another 1973. And yet we cling to the same stories and send our sons and daughters to do the dirty deeds of our (and their) politicians so they could keep their reins on power.