Two developments

Since the onset of the Arab-Israeli conflict, there were at least two major developments that have affected the conflict. The first one came after 1967 when the US officially adopted a policy to maintain Israeli military-technological superiority vis-a-vis any combination of Arab states. The second development is less fancy but no less significant: I never thought I would live to see the individual Israeli (terrorist) soldier showing fear from the individual Arab fighter. This started in 2006 and it is showing from many signals in Gaza, no matter what outcome on the grounds. The Lebanese fighters in 2006 broke, nay shattered, a military psychological barrier. This factor can't be bridged by the massive military might of the Israeli terrorist state. I remember that Hasan Nasrallah once told me a few years before the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006 that Hizbullah fighters are "eager" to confront Israeli soliders. I thought that he was being hyperbolic but now I know what he meant.