Are you quite sure about that, Martin? I at least wonder if they didn't tell themselves something like, "We might re-dhimmize them, but they also might attack with all guns blazing. But then, we will wail and Israel will be more of a pariah than ever. Either way, we can't lose."

But there are also those who say, the world will treat us as a pariah whatever we do--and I'm also not sure they're mistaken at all. But I'm pretty sure most Jews, in Israel or the Diaspora, are FED UP and then some with all the heads-I-win tails-you-lose games Christendom and Islam try to get them to play!

Maybe the best deal all round is to respond as any other nation would. And as Israel has done.