“The State of Israel is at the third major juncture in its history. The first was when it was created in May 1948, improbably reconstituting a polity that had been destroyed almost 1900 years earlier. The second juncture was in June 1967, when Israel’s victory over Arab armies gave Israeli Jews dominion over the lands of their ancestors’ kingdoms, and also brought what was initially about 1.3 million Arabs under Israeli control with no prospect of citizenship. The third juncture is now, as the Knesset is set to decide what kind of democracy Israel will be.” 

–Jon B. Alterman, senior vice president, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, and director of the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Israel’s Third Juncture in History [Center for Strategic and International Studies]