Shai Feldman at a colloquium sponsored the Wilson Center.

Recent Arab uprisings in the occupied ter- ritories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip may stir Israelis to look beyond national security "to the essence of the state's pur- poses and its grand strategy."

Feldman, a Wilson Center Fellow and senior research associate at the Jaffee Cen- ter for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv Uni- versity, suggests that his fellow citizens might do well to reconsider the principles formulated by th...