...if only the Palestinians and all those other States they use the Palestinians as pawns in a greater game, would leave Israel alone for twenty years, Israel would collapse without an external enemy to unite their internally warring factions.

He also said "Give Israel any chance to perceive a threat, they will perceive it. And jump at the opportunity".

I was just a callow youth, but I remembered what he said. He was an orthopaedic surgeon who insisted on staying in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, because he knew his skills were needed. He paid the ultimate price when the second rocket took him out. The first causes casualties; the second, ten minutes later, takes out the rescuers.

A plague on all their houses.