In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
War is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States.
There is an alliance between Israel and the United States, and it has never been stronger than at the time of George W. Bush.
What we have really now is a one-state outcome in which Israel is the one and only state between the Jordan River and the sea. It can do whatever it wants virtually throughout the area. But that's not the kind of a state that's going to be a basis for peace and stability in the region.
No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.
The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
No war is over until the enemy says it's over.
Israel does not start wars.