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Israel
CONCEPTS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
The need for a strong military posture in the face of the perceived
Arab threats to Israel's survival has been endorsed with near
unanimity by Israeli policy makers and citizens. Nevertheless,
the question of which strategies best ensure national defense
has often caused acrimonious national, as well as international,
controversy. Events subsequent to Ben-Gurion's initial concepts
of national security laid down when Israel was founded in 1948,
particularly Israel's occupation of Arab territories since the
June 1967 War, have modified the foundations for Israel's concepts
of national security.
Data as of December 1988
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