The arrogance of "Israel": Is it an expression of surplus power or megalomania?

An analysis of Israel's regional behavior, describing its arrogance as stemming from megalomania supported by a biblical religious discourse, rather than from a real surplus of power. It reviews its military expansion on six fronts, relying on American support whose global prestige is beginning to wane, as in the Strait of Hormuz crisis. The article concludes that this behavior, exemplified by bombing a base near the Turkish border without coordination, is a suicidal strategy that will lead to Israel's contraction.

The article offers a critical analysis of Israeli regional behavior, describing it as arrogance born of megalomania rather than a genuine surplus of power. The author reviews Israel's simultaneous military expansion on six fronts: Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen. He notes that this expansion relies on massive American support amounting to $21.7 billion since October 2023, but observes that American prestige itself is eroding, citing its inability to open the Strait of Hormuz. The article describes the incident of August 18, 2026, where Israeli fighter jets bombed an airbase in the Syrian countryside of Idlib, 70 kilometers from the Turkish border, without prior coordination with Ankara, which US envoy Tom Barak described as "unnecessary escalation." The author believes that Israeli strategic decision-making has become hostage to an explicit religious discourse, citing Netanyahu's description of Gaza's residents as "Amalek" and Smotrich's talk of a "settlement revolution" as the fulfillment of a biblical promise. The article concludes that this is not a balanced surplus of power, but a complex of megalomania that will ultimately drive Israel into contraction and retreat.