>>508454633Iran's missiles and nuclear deterrent are a "threat" to Israel. So they will cry about how threatened they are, how victimized they are by Iran.
In reality Israel does not want to act like a normal country. A small country needs to act like a normal country and accede to the wishes of larger countries around it. You're not gonna get your way all the time, you have to appease them. You have to act like a normal diplomatic country.
Armenia doesn't like Azerbaijan, or Russia, or Turkey, but it plays ball with them, because that's just how things are for a small country.
But Israel isn't satisfied by that. To Israel, anything that infringes on their ability to have rampant, unchecked power, is a "threat". Is an imposition. They will cry, and scream, how terrified, and threatened they are, how they need to bomb you and pacify you, to make sure you don't threaten them anymore.
Systematically, they've torn down country after country. The big Kahuna is Iran. Once Iran loses its deterrant capability, Israel will have total and complete hegemony over the middle east. It can push out huge borders for itself, become a massive powerful country that dominates the region. Nobody can ever stop them anymore.
So Israel's motivation in this isn't "survival", rather the opposite, it's pure unchecked domination they crave. They can't stop playing the victim, they NEED to see themselves as a victim. In reality they have been craving this war for 30 years, it's been the #1 agenda item of AIPAC. They have been salivating for this, thinking of any excuse to initiate it.
Iran meanwhile has pulled back from confrontation at every opportunity. When their general was assassinated, they disengaged. Israel conducted numerous terror strikes on Iran, and they didn't respond. Finally Israel attacked them completely unprovoked in the midst of peace negotiations, and killed all the negotiators representing the peace deal.
The pure unchecked aggression, and they're still crying victim.