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This paper seeks to examine the effect of the revolutions of 2011-2012 in the Arabic countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on Israeli regime's ontological security and its strategy of closure and deviation in the regional level. In other word, the paper tries to find the challenges the ontological security and identity of Israel is facing with after the occurrence of the awakening. This article argues that Israeli ontological security came across a kind of insecurity due to the appearance of democratic states in revolutionary countries, which resulted in forming a new identity against its identity. On this basis, review and analysis of the Israeli regime security is an important issue. Thus we are going to discuss security- identity challenges of Israel in the region. To do this, first the theory of ontological security will be explained as the theoretical framework; then the nature of the upheavals of the region will be expressed; and finally, Israeli ontological insecurity and its responses to it will be examined.
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(Received: 16 January 2019 Accepted: 4 March 2019) Abstract This paper seeks to examine the effect of the revolutions of 2011-2012 in the Arabic countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on Israeli regime's ontological security and its strategy of closure and deviation in the regional level.
This article argues that Israeli ontological security came across a kind of insecurity due to the appearance of democratic states in revolutionary countries, which resulted in forming a new identity against its identity.
One of these actors is the Israeli regime which was affected particularly in security terms by the revolutions in the Arab countries of MENA, and its relations with these states were changed.
Based on this theory, it seems that the occurrence of Arab revolutions has created a sense of ontological insecurity among Israeli officials by breaking the actions of Israel -especially its actions over the past three decades- to normalize relations with its neighboring countries, and by formation of new identities against its identity.
The Israelis have three common principles and commitments in their foreign policy decision-making: A) Concerning for security and the existential threats that face Israel; B) Consensus over the Zionist ideology; C) The preservation of Israel as a democratic Jewish state (El-Gendy, 2010: 186).
Being Democratic To Israel, the ability to present itself as a patron of western modern values in the region against the Orientals -an amalgam of Islam, Arab identity and religious fundamentalism- seemed to provide ideal situation for the Zionist settler-state as prophesied by Herzl.