[Fluorescence]

Most of geopolitics is geography and Israel has greatly benefitted as a unique bridgehead in hostile territory for a changing roster of great-powers and states against another foe e.g.

- Early Soviet support to undermine British Imperialism

- Balfour Declaration from Britain vs. Ottomans

- Nuclear tech from France vs. Nasser and anti-colonialism

- Military/Nuclear from Apartheid South Africa vs. shared pariah status

- Hegemonic power from the US vs. every unaligned country including Cold War, OPEC, Arab Nationalism, Islamism

The more recent metastasising of support into a political-religous-racial belief-system is even more troubling than the apocalyptic machinations of great powers because pure ideology departs from reason itself and is untethered to any care for the consequences.