While the leaders of the Israeli occupation continue to repeatedly claim that they have “changed” the Middle East, the prevailing conviction among them, far from these demagogic and populist terms, raises the need to view the changes taking place in the region within a context that may carry many risks, making it necessary to stop feeling a sense of “misleading pride”.

The ongoing developments in the region have proven, despite what the occupying state claims about accomplishing military achievements for the past year, that they are surrounded by long walls, despite their extremely high costs, whether by allocating a huge share of the budget to maintain a large army, reaching 30 per cent of the state budget, the militarily burdened society the Israelis live in, or the constant feeling of fear and uncertainty.

At the same time, the disputes that the occupying state is witnessing, which have reached the level of fights, have been translated in the constant discourse in its diplomatic and political forums, and the circulation of reports that reveal the decline of its position on the international scene. This presents embarrassing and disturbing conclusions about it, and the decline of its strategic position on the regional scene.

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