Israeli demographic and security concerns

Both security and demography are core concerns for Israel and its continuation as an apartheid state; For this reason, numerous seminars and conferences are held annually in Israeli research centers, institutes and universities to reach specific results and recommendations and assess the situation accordingly.

In this context, the Institute for Israeli Strategic Studies held, during the period (2000-2021), a regular annual conference; For the purpose of examining the so-called immunity in “Israel”.

logistical aspect

The Herzliya Conference was established by the former National Security Adviser, General Uzi Arad, after the failure of the Camp David Conference for “peace” with the Palestinians in the summer of 2000. The Herzliya Periodic Conference aims to review Israeli policies for the previous year, and identify possible policies for the next year and other future stages that may extend for five years. Or for twenty years, and accordingly, the conclusions and recommendations of the Herzliya periodic conferences are considered an important focal point on which the Israeli governments depend when making strategic decisions at the levels of security, politics, the economy, international relations, negotiations and their tracks as well, not to mention the decisions of war after describing the dangers that threaten “Israel.”

The annual Israeli conference in Herzliya is attended by former Israeli prime ministers and chiefs of staff, in addition to former heads of state, strategists, military leaders and academics from various Israeli universities; The conference, held at the end of last year 2021, was attended by the President of the Occupation State, “Naftali Bennett.”

The Herzliya Conferences held since 2000 discussed issues that decision-makers in Israel consider strategic; But the present demographic and security concern is the greatest and on the priority list of those conferences, where recommendations were made, to limit what “Israel” considers to be future dangers to its Jewish identity; That is why many Israeli laws were issued prohibiting intermarriage between members of the Palestinian Arab minority within the Green Line with their peers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. In recent years, it has shown that a large percentage of them support the expulsion of the Arab minority.

It is noteworthy that most of the Herzliya conferences discussed in their axes the strengths and weaknesses of the Israeli army, and results and recommendations were recorded in order to bridge the gaps and constantly modernize the Israeli army, as it is the most important arm for maintaining Israeli security in the first place, as “Israel” applies the saying of Moshe Dayan, who held the position Chief of Staff and then Minister of War, which states that “Israel does not have a foreign policy, but only a defense policy,” meaning that instead of the comprehensive strategy being in the service of achieving foreign policy goals, as is the case in most countries of the world, “Israel” sets its own policy. Foreign Ministry in the service of its comprehensive strategy or its security concept.

It is important to note that the Herzliya conferences coincided with the emergence of the term Judaism of the Israeli state, which was codified several years ago.

political decision

The recommendations of the Herzliya conferences held from 2000 until the end of last year 2021 attempted to consolidate the idea of ​​the Jewishness of Israel in a practical form, leading to the Judaization of time and place in the flanks of Palestine, the homeland of the Palestinian people. Some of its implications have been the subject of controversy among certain currents in the Zionist movement. The great momentum of this saying, which culminated in the recent issuance of the Nationality Law, is in itself an attractive factor for the Jews of the world, especially after the decline in immigration numbers to occupied Palestine during the last decade.

The Herzliya conferences also discussed the conditions of the Israeli economy and its most important crises of unemployment, debt and inflation, and most of them recommended work mechanisms and adopt specific policies to get out of the crises afflicting the Israeli economy or reduce their repercussions on the Zionist society, in order to achieve high social and economic welfare rates that amount to growth rates. The Israeli population on the one hand, and at the same time, it maintains the factors of attracting more world Jews to the occupied lands in light of the drying up of many sources of Jewish immigration in America, the countries of the American Union and Canada.

It can be said that the concept of political decision for Israel and its relationship to the economy is different from the traditional concept, as the political decision is the basis and the rest of the matters, especially the economy at its service, where the political decision in Israel assumes the central role that the economy is supposed to occupy.

In this context, it can be asserted that Israeli policies at the levels of politics, security and the economy must serve the higher strategy, at the forefront of which is the promotion of the idea of ​​the Jewishness of the state, as it has become clear that the term “Jewishness of the state” represents in recent years the essence and content of the major goals and objectives of “Israel”, and the saying has turned The Jewish state is unprecedented and uncharacteristic of the common denominator between the various currents, blocs, parties, and political, social and cultural trends in Israel alike.