Israel:
Capital: Jerusalem
Ruler: das/Prime Minister Nadiv Hillel
Government: Parliamentary Republic
Army: 110,000 infantry, 400 MBT, 500 Artillery
Navy: 10 Ships
Air Force: 160 Fighters, 100 Interceptors, 10 Bombers
Training: 2/1/2
Economy: Normal(+1)
Education: High School
Loyalty: Little National-Loyalty
Confidence: Respecting
Satellites/Nukes:
Projects:
Technologies:
Nation Background: Israeli forces united under several commanding officers. They quickly introduced martial law and stabilized area around Tel-Aviv and Haifa. Warring with several other Israeli forces along with numerous Palestinian militias weakened initial Israeli resolve. The nation quickly gathered together under the threat of Egypt, which annexed the Gaza Strip and Syria which was amassing troops. Israel has fought off two invasion by Syria in 9AC and 16 AC. The Knesset was reformed after the second Syrian invasion. A liberal coalition is currently in power.
Story:
Fifty years. Just some fifty years. The UEF lasted for some measely fifty years, and it all started so well!
Yeah, right, smirked Nadiv Hillel, Head of Government (Rosh ha-Memshala) as he studied the military map. World peace.
That was why he, then under a different name as a member of Liberation: Earth, did what he had to do twenty years ago.
They were not anarchists - they believed in government. They were not in particular nationalistic, neither. They simply had a different philosophy. Unlike those foolish idealists who were down in this brand new world they - the Liberatinonists - created, they knew that peace is bad.
Yes, yes, peace is bad. Peace results in stagnation, that was the lesson of the TRUE Dark Ages - the Pax Roma. No technologic or social advancement because there is no need for it! Happy, comfortable status quo!
That must never be repeated again, the Liberationists knew. Status quo must be defied, must be challenged, must change. War is the best way. War is bloody, true, but war is a part of evolution, destroying all things not fit for survival - customs, ship designs, empires... War purifies. War cleans. In war, the people, the nation, the entire humanity has to mobilize all of its resources... and thus, it progresses. Technologic development can happen in peace time... but only under a strain-test can good ideas be distinguished from bad ones.
What better strain-test is there other then war?
Old barriers must be erased, to make way for progress, for change all things old and obsolete must cease to exist for they hamper development.
The UEF was a dam that held back the river of progress.
It had to be destroyed.
And so it was, it did not survive the strain-test. Ofcourse, Nadiv Hillel - lets call him that, for other names are no longer important - was also a bit of a nationalist... Under first the UN and "World Law", and now under the UEF, the Israeli people were essentially opressed by the world. All of Israel's problems came from the fact that it was restrained by the international opinion. Now that opinion didn't matter. Now Israel had a chance to set its own rules.
Nadiv Hallil finished the destruction of UEF and quickly moved to Israel. He failed to defeat Ariel Barak in the early internal strife, and decided to bide his time instead. Barak's junta established firm control over Tel Aviv and Haifa, whilst Nadiv Hallil bided his time in his villa at Hadera. Warlords were defeated one after one, Palestineans were finally cracked down upon and a few of them fled to Gaza in panic, seeking protection of their Egyptian overlords. They got it now. Fair enough.
Who needs Gaza, anyway?
The junta would eventually falter, Hillel knew. He prepared for that. He organized a coalition of liberal and social-democratic parties - that is, "legal political factions", for the party system was temporarily abolished. Ariel Barak was getting old and 16 AC he, exhausted by the chaos of the Second Golan War, resigned. Nadiv Hillel won the elections by a landslide, for he carefully prepared for them all along.
He won the new ones, as well.
He was a nationalist, a terrorist, a militarist. But all that was unknown. Besides, he himself had changed. He had grown old.
And... He knew that the conservatives are trying to hold back progress as well. He thus was a liberal, a reformist. But a liberal reformist of a special kind.
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"The second triumph of the National-Liberal Party of Israel (NLPI) was assured from the start."
- "Newest History of Middle East", Jerusalem Press 22 AC.