A Dead Nation?

A very bad thought happened this morning as I woke. Sometimes these thoughts happen in the very early waking, before my mind has begun to fully function, sometimes they happen very late at night, perhaps because I'm alone and all is quiet and I'm exhausted and bad thoughts creep in, but is Israel a dead nation?

If Israel doesn't take this opportunity to destroy Hizbolla they've lost their will to live and will die. They're a tiny nation within a sea of hatred. Always in their wars thy've at the end been constrained by the western powers. If now their constraint is internal they've lost their will to live and they will die, and not slowly, though from the rot within.

I can't believe that's happened, but if there's not a ground assault within days --the only way to wipe out Hizbollah-- they're dead, and they'll suffer rocket attacks until the day no Jew any longer wants to live in that place. If Israel doesn't consider itself special, and heroic, and destined, then there's no reason to live in that part of the world.

I wouldn't claim any special knowledge of foreign policy in that area, I only see the obvious: if a nation no longer considers itself special its not strong but is dust, and will be blown away by a breeze of a bomb... These thoughts happen, sometimes in the morning, sometimes very late at night.