ABSTRACT
Israel has also faced massive threats from some of the 22 Arab states and the Palestinians over the last 60 years of statehood and the decades before statehood. As some of the old threat waned after 1979 (Camp David) and 1994 (the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty) there was added the new threat from Iran after 1979 and Islamic fundamentalism in the 1990s and 2000s. In 1947, 650,000 Israeli Jews faced five Arab states with 27 million people and 1.2 million Palestinians nearby. In 2007, 5.3 million Israeli Jews faced 20 hostile Arab states with 215 million people, two Palestinian entities with 3.5 million people and Iran with 70 million people.1
