Israel will find itself diminished and no longer the secure regional hegemon if it maintains its current path, analysts and observers from within Israel and its diaspora have warned.All signs, they say, from the ratcheting levels of political polarisation within the country, the loss of investor confidence at both home and abroad and the fundamentals of demographic change, make the collapse of the current iteration of the Israeli state almost inevitable in the coming decades.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list“When we say that the Israeli state will stop existing, it’s more of a starting point,” political economist Shir Hever explained. “What we’re really talking about is whether it will continue as the same entity as it is now. For instance, the way apartheid South Africa was no longer the same entity after 1994, or that East Germany was the same entity after unification [in 1990].”The argument is that Israel, as it stands now, is unsustainable. And it is not so much about the way Israel treats Palestinians, but about division within Israel. Many secular Israelis are leaving the country – including entrepreneurs who have made Israel’s tech industry on …
