Population and area are not the sole determining factors for defining a state's power and influence, England a tiny island nation rose to dominate large parts of the world . The jews struggled for this land since thousands of years. They faced exile, lived in foreign lands, faced persecution and massacres etc but still they maintained their nationhood and contributed greatly to the building of nation-states and modern world. Imagine how much they have learned in the fields of politics, economy and business, industry making, state building and military tactics. Still they face many internal challenges viz. the Jewish Question (whether they are a race or a religion or a people or what, kind of identity crisis, they are not as politically united as you would perceive as religious zionism has different goals than political zionism, revisionist zionism is altogether different and cultural zionism also hold different views ) and external challenges viz. hostility towards jews. Israel for atleast two times as far as I can know has come to face existential crisis; once during 1947 arab Israeli war and other perhaps during 1972 or something (after war of annihilation with Egypt, during youm kippur war or something when the US was not sending them supplies and help and they were ready to launch nuclear strikes if overcome by Egyptian forces). But anyways, the purpose of mentioning this is not to post a positive image of Israel or the Jews, because there is something very sinister about them indeed perhaps, but only to make it clear how a tiny nation is able to overcome all Arab mammoths, who only know tribal and sectarian warfare and nothing else .

As Hitler would say, this vampire the jew has sucked enough mass from the gentiles that now it is a giant on its own .

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