One of the biggest propaganda lines of Zionism is that Israel is the little defense nation in a sea of hostility. Granted, Israel exists in a hostile region. But it is not a little, defenseless nation. As Israel then-prime minister Ehud Barak stated in 2000, “Israel is the strongest nation in a 1,000 miles.”

The myth started in 1948 when Israelis and their supporters claim that the nascent Jewish state was attacked by seven Arab armies determined to “drive the Jews into the sea.” The line, by the way, was fabricated by Israelis and falsely attributed to the Arabs (though, later on, some Arabs did employ it). Those so-called seven Arab armies had a combined force only 1/3 of the Zionist army. They were ill-equipped (Saudi Arabia’s contribution was men on horseback), ill-trained, ill-organized (Arab “armies” at times were shooting at one another), and most of them never even crossed over into the territory allocated for the Jewish state. While the two Zionist militias were skillfully trained and then had, as Israel does now, a superior arsenal of weaponry from tanks to B-2 bombers (the Arabs did not have even a WW1-era fighter plane). Given this lopsidedness in men and weaponry, it was not some romantic and heroic David and Goliath miracle that Israel won against “seven Arab armies” but a predictable outcome of war. Israelis though prefer the myth to boost their self-esteem and image.

Through out the decades, Israel has maintained his superiority. And the United States committed itself in the 1980s under President Reagan to supporting a policy of Israeli military superiority over not just one or two Arab nations, but the entire Arab world. As such, the United States only sells Israel premium defensive weapons and donates $3 billion annual to strengthen Israel’s military. All the while, whenever any Arab nations wants to buy this or that weapon it is always a fight in Congress as the Israel lobby seeks to prevent any offensive weapons being sold.

Not surprisingly, the occupying IDF stands today as a fighting force to rival the collective combination of the rest of the region. Israel is home to the second-largest contingent of F-16s after the United States, a massive navy, one of the highest numbers of tanks, and endless infantry weaponry with the United States always there to reload, literally.

And Israel is home to the region’s sole stockpile of nuclear weaponry. This is a small nation, geography-wise, but it is the regional hegemony in terms of military might. But Israel still pretend that they are the little weakling and that, poor them, the Arabs are so strong. Israeli Interior Ministry Eli Yishai:

Israel has always been one sheep among 70 wolves.

That sheep amongst wolves is so outnumber and outgunned, and frankly intimidated, that recently it killed 900 Palestinians (of whom over 400 were children) in Gaza just 10 months ago. In 2008, it bombed sites in Sudan. In 2007, it launched an air attack and bombed a suspected nuclear/chemical site in Syria. In 2006, it launched a war against Lebanon via the air, sea, and land killing over 1,000 Lebanese civilians. It continues to occupy the land of three Arab nations: Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. And since 1948 has bombed and won successive wars against: Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, and even faraway Tunisia (and it downed a Libyan civilian airliner in 1973). Israel bombed Tunisia, a nation never at war with the country, in 1986 to retaliate against a PLO mission in Greece (the PLO base was in Tunis at the time). Tunis only accepted the Palestinians on behalf of U.S. urging to find a new home for the PLO after Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 - killing over 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinians civilians - to remove the PLO from Beirut and welcomed the move to Tunis. But then bombs the Tunisian capital for something a PLO member (in a devolution-structured organization) did in Europe. Israel, the little sheep, knew it could get away with such action because Tunisia has no means of retaliation.

Looking at the record, I mean, is it not evident that if there is one nation that it intimidated to engage in wars, violence and occupation it’s Israel? I mean, look at this image of Syrian President Bashir Assad:

Does he not scare Israel as he surveys a map of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights? Clearly, Israel is so afraid of Syria it might just quickly leave the Golan and give it back to its rightful owner. No, Israelis are so outnumbered, they are too afraid to bomb Lebanon and too afraid to occupy Arab land. They never do stuff like that. They are too sheepish and innocent. They abhor wars and colonization. And they are too benevolent. They never ever engage in violence, that is solely the prerogative of wolf-pack Arabs.

Do Israelis even believe their own transparent propaganda?