Jews use to live on the brink of death. That leaves little space for compassion to neighbors, let alone to others. Jews, accordingly, grew treacherous. From the shameful episodes of the Holocaust to Israeli abandoning the Christian South Lebanon Army to delivering thousands of Israeli Palestinian collaborators into the hands of Arafat after the Oslo agreements, Jews betrayed their friends. Betrayal is silly: a friend helped in danger might not feel indebted, but at least he would cling to the benefactor for practical purposes. Israel betrayed the SLA, and lost the 2006 war in Lebanon because she lacked brutal associates who could do the necessary dirty work. When the abandoned friend does not go away, he has to be suppressed. Thus Israel represses the settlers who manned her frontier areas for decades.